• tyler@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Why are these things being called actresses. It’s literally “ai video starts randomly speaking Cantonese”. It’s not an actress. It’s not acting.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Remember when they tried that shit with Aki Ross from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? The CGI model, who looks less realistic than Alyx Vance?

      • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        Aki was years before alyx and looked much better. Which makes sense considering one was rendered for cinema and one was for real time game engine rendering

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          19 hours ago

          On the left, we have Aki Ross, main character of Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within, developed over 4 years in the late 90’s and released into theaters in 2001. Square’s render farm consisted of 960 Pentium III 933MHz workstation PCs, which took 90 minutes to render each frame of the film.

          On the right, we have Alyx Vance, companion character of Half Life 2 and Episode 1 and 2, developed over a period of 4 years and released in 2004. The published minimum specs for this game are a Windows XP computer with a 1.7GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, a graphics card compatible with DirectX 8.1, and 6.5GB of storage, on which the game runs at a framerate of 60Hz rendered in real time.

          “Years before” They both came out while I was in high school. Their development cycles overlapped.

    • dumnezero@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      Media is ruled by billionaires. When Trump yells “fake news”, he’s just annoyed that it’s not him specifically in control.