The AI discussion thread

[Kaido]

Sora 2 anime content:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975360198161408223

 

[Kaido]

Some really incredible video styles are coming out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1o6ickx/dreaming_on_the_train_home_paint_world_24

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1o57amo/storm_surge_paint_world_23

 

[cytg111]

What the field needs right now is digital signatures for non AI work and browser plugins that automatically check for those.

 

[Kaido]

What the field needs right now is digital signatures for non AI work and browser plugins that automatically check for those.

They have a pretty good text-detector:

GPTZero

The World's #1 AI Content Detector with over 8 Million Users

gptzero.me

It is far from perfect, however:

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

futurism.com

They already watermark the images & video with invisible watermarks:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976692285070098485

The logo watermarks are easy to defeat...with AI lol:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1973791525285814775

 

[Kaido]

New version of Magnific AI upscaler with "plastic skin look" removal:

 

[sdifox]

Chinese animators are leveraging Tencent's ai platform heavily
Example

 

[Kaido]

Introducing RTFM (Real-Time Frame Model): a highly efficient World Model that generates video frames in real time as you interact with it, powered by a single H100 GPU.

lol...a single H100 GPU costs $30,000 But seriously, that's some crazy technology & crazy efficiency:

RTFM can be seen as a learned renderer: it is an autoregressive diffusion transformer trained end-to-end on large-scale video data, and it learns to model 3D geometry, reflections, shadows and more just by observing them in its training set.

So they can build smarter & smarter custom-rendered 3D-navigatable environments & simply stream them to your device!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978839171058815380

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978839261026697611

 

[Kaido]

Introducing RTFM (Real-Time Frame Model): a highly efficient World Model that generates video frames in real time as you interact with it, powered by a single H100 GPU.

lol...a single H100 GPU costs $30,000 But seriously, that's some crazy technology & crazy efficiency:



So they can build smarter & smarter custom-rendered 3D-navigatable environments & simply stream them to your device!

All you need is a few photos to recreate a real environment!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978839350386295105

 

[Chaotic42]

I pay for OpenAI, so I'm hopeful I'll get a Sora 2 key at some point. Sora 1's videos aren't that interesting and it easily goes off the rails.

 

[Kaido]

I pay for OpenAI, so I'm hopeful I'll get a Sora 2 key at some point. Sora 1's videos aren't that interesting and it easily goes off the rails.

I have Freepik, which is a multi-model workflow subscription website:

https://www.freepik.com/pikaso/ai-video-generator#from_element=mainmenu

You buy a subscription to get access & can load additional credits as needed:

https://www.freepik.com/pricing?origin=freepik_web#from_element=mainmenu

It's basically a way to:

1. Get access to a lot of different photo & video models
2. Have workflow integration (video generator, video editor, etc.)

You can run stuff like LM Studio & Msty for local, offline GPT's. I have some IT customers who require closed-environment solutions & those are great for that! But you are hardware-limited as far as performance goes. If you like to tinker, Hugging Face is an online playground with over 2 million AI models available.

I have a 1080Ti from like 2017, so my local horsepower is not all that great, plus I'm more interested in using AI to DO stuff with. Some models use your paid credits & others are unlimited. Their photo editor gives you unlimited generations with Nano Banana & it has Ideogram for illustration...I haven't touched my Adobe suite in like a month lol.

The video generator has all the latest stuff, including the more advanced Sora 2 Pro & WAN 2.5, plus I get unlimited free generations of WAN 2.2 under the subscription. They also have ElevenLabs for voice & whatnot. Overall, my current favorite tools are:

1. Freepik (multimedia suite)
2. ChatGPT Plus (search, PDF Q&A, voice chat)
3. NotebookLM (studying & research)
4. Midjourney (incredible UI ^ image generation)
5. Suno (music)

 

[Kaido]

I pay for OpenAI, so I'm hopeful I'll get a Sora 2 key at some point. Sora 1's videos aren't that interesting and it easily goes off the rails.

The tools today are crazy tho...here's some free marketing @Gizmo j

Nano Banana image generation via text prompting:


Nano Banana image-to-image scene editing:



WAN 2.2 video:

 

[Kaido]

I have not been impressed with Microsoft's Copilot until today: Copilot Actions. Basically:

1. It creates a non-admin account
2. It opens a remote desktop screen
3. You explain what you want it to do in conversational language & it logs every step as it works

@RossMAN here you go!!

Microsoft debuts Copilot Actions for agentic AI-driven Windows tasks

Microsoft announced today a new Windows 11 Copilot feature called Copilot Actions that enables AI agents to perform real tasks on local files and applications.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

DANG MAN!

Microsoft states that it is securing Copilot AI agents through four security and privacy principles: using distinct agent accounts, limiting agent privileges on files and folders, ensuring operational trust through digitally signed agents, and ensuring that agents are governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement and Responsible AI Standard.

Each AI agent will run under its own distinct "standard" Windows account, which means it does not have administrative privileges. As each agent uses its own account, it means Windows can restrict agents based on applications and file system access rules.

At launch, agents will only have access to the standard Windows data folders, such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop, and Pictures, and other "resources" available to all accounts. Access to other file locations can be configured using the Windows access control lists (ACLs).

BleepingComputer asked Microsoft if they would be adding easier ways to manage file system access for agents and was told that more granular security controls would be coming at a later date.

Microsoft further told BleepingComputer that each Agent Workspace, where Copilot Actions performs its tasks, is implemented as a Windows Remote Desktop child session, rather than as a virtual machine or within a Windows Sandbox.

A Windows Remote Desktop child session is a distinct, isolated desktop environment tied to a user's existing session, preventing the agent from directly viewing or interacting with the user's desktop.

"Each agentic app will manage their own agent workspace. For isolation purposes, there will not be crossover of workspaces across apps," Microsoft told BleepingComputer.

While the AI agent can't access a user's desktop, Microsoft plans to implement a way for users to authorize, monitor, and take control of agent actions in the workspace.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978912820910789044

 

[sdifox]

I have not been impressed with Microsoft's Copilot until today: Copilot Actions. Basically:

1. It creates a non-admin account
2. It opens a remote desktop screen
3. You explain what you want it to do in conversational language & it logs every step as it works

@RossMAN here you go!!

Microsoft debuts Copilot Actions for agentic AI-driven Windows tasks

Microsoft announced today a new Windows 11 Copilot feature called Copilot Actions that enables AI agents to perform real tasks on local files and applications.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

DANG MAN!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978912820910789044

lol I am not trusting my local file to any ai

 

[Chaotic42]

lol I am not trusting my local file to any ai

Yeah, I'm slowly preparing to just go full Linux except for my gaming PC which will be as isolated as possible from everything else.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bet all that gets sent to the MS servers too, I doubt it's local. So this could be a huge privacy issue especially if dealing with sensitive data.


I'm a test subject at work for Windows 11 as I got deployed a new PC that has it installed and every now and then copilot pops up, it's really random, like if I'm copying text or something. Sending random bits of text to it could be an issue too especially if dealing with customer info. Just glad I don't run windows at home anymore it's become too invasive imo.

 

[Kaido]

Yeah, I'm slowly preparing to just go full Linux except for my gaming PC which will be as isolated as possible from everything else.

Microsoft is 'removing known mechanisms for creating a local account' from Windows 11 setup - get ready to use a Microsoft account

This isn't a popular decision...

www.techradar.com

tiny11 25H2 is out, offering debloated Windows 11 25H2 without Microsoft Account requirement

Windows 10 is officially dead, and if your PC does not support Windows 11, the latest tiny11 release will help by offering you lightweight, debloated Windows 11 25H2 without hardware restrictions.

www.neowin.net

 

[Kaido]

Bet all that gets sent to the MS servers too, I doubt it's local. So this could be a huge privacy issue especially if dealing with sensitive data.


I'm a test subject at work for Windows 11 as I got deployed a new PC that has it installed and every now and then copilot pops up, it's really random, like if I'm copying text or something. Sending random bits of text to it could be an issue too especially if dealing with customer info. Just glad I don't run windows at home anymore it's become too invasive imo.

Manage AI features in Notepad

Learn how to manage AI features in Notepad using Microsoft Intune and Group Policy.

learn.microsoft.com

Enhance Your Writing with AI in Notepad - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I have not been impressed with Microsoft's Copilot until today: Copilot Actions. Basically:

1. It creates a non-admin account
2. It opens a remote desktop screen
3. You explain what you want it to do in conversational language & it logs every step as it works

@RossMAN here you go!!

Microsoft debuts Copilot Actions for agentic AI-driven Windows tasks

Microsoft announced today a new Windows 11 Copilot feature called Copilot Actions that enables AI agents to perform real tasks on local files and applications.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

DANG MAN!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978912820910789044

So it's funny you bring this up, I had planned on making a post covering something like this soon. I'm working right now at my employer developing an AI that can do stuff like this (and so, so much more). In AI parlance it's using MCP servers (model context protocol) to manage interactions, they're basically add-ins that that tell an AI how to do things. So a local AI can perform a very wide range of actions that interface in the 'real world' based on what the MCPs tell it what to do and how to do it. It's pretty much limitless and the break-point I was looking for to leverage AI in a real sense beyond 'enhanced google'. After a week of learning a ton about python, postgres, AI's, and MCPs in general, I've gotten as far as getting the AI to know the current actual time/date (which is remarkable in and of itself). Good things coming!