Awww... that is such a nice thing. But why would anyone post this to facebook? Wait a minute ai.facebook! That is such facebook thing to do. They just couldn't stop with this meta stuff. And now they are targeting kids to harvest data.
Let me see what security issues that are being discussed in the comment section. You know what I will put everything I was thinking up to this point as a comment itself.
Unfortunately meta has lost so much trust with the world that anything, even well meaning, will be met with such skepticism as to render it unimpactful.
Scientists and devs at meta - is this the most meaningful way you can spend your valuable life?
There's lots of scepticism from some tech or political circles sure, but I don't think the population in general cares. The latest Oculus got bad reviews because it's so tied to Facebook, and it's since sold over 10 million.
It could maybe have sold some extra before Christmas but when I asked at my local electronic store he said he would not recommend it ojt of principle.
Not sure I would have bought anyway, but when the sales guy in the store openly admit he doesn't want to sell it then you know you have a PR problem :-)
> is this the most meaningful way you can spend your valuable life?
Yes. I work on WhatsApp, which is the best[1] messaging app among those that make an effort to be relevant for the "next billion" internet users. There are probably people in Ukraine right now who are relying on the work we do. I wouldn't be able to say the same had I worked on some *aaS CRUD app (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
I remember an article that they had something more general (not just Frozen) available for children on cruise ships, I think. I can't find that article but this technical concept has been around for some time
From the video, it appears what Disney is doing is much simpler compared to the techniques in the article. It seems children are simply "filling in" parts of existing figures (e.g. the Mickey Mouse ears shown in the video), which are then animated. This seems to me like a less challenging problem, as all the rigging/joint/etc stuff that Meta is doing can be done by-hand, beforehand, in the Disney case, it does not need any ML. The cool thing with Meta's system is that it (hypothetically) works on arbitrary human-like figures.
While Meta is creepy, this is pretty awesome. I could imagine a platform that allows you to animate a few characters & backgrounds to make an animated storybook or cartoon.
I've tried it and also asked my mother to draw something, and it's really cool and fun! This could be incredibly useful in the animation industry mostly because of the automatic rigging, placing the bones of the character onto the correct location! I hope they turn this into a tool and let us play and create cool stuff with it!
A periodic reminder that any innocent-looking, seemingly-pure fun research coming from Meta AI will eventually be weaponized for their massive ad-based business model.
No for-profit keeps a research division just for the sake of science.
Technology companies are generally bad at commercializing the fruit of their research divisions. Consider Xerox PARC, Microsoft Research, Nokia Research…
Given personal experience working at large ad companies, this is not close to true. Many research projects exist that are not directly tied to revenue generation.
by analyzing your child's drawings we're able to determine with 90% accuracy what content to push at them over the next decade to turn them into a school shooter! Not that we would do that unless somebody paid us.
If it makes you feel better, there's no data being collected other than the images and annotation fixes (and that only occurs if you click 'agree' on the consent page).
You also don't need to be signed in Facebook or anything to use the demo- there's no way to link the uploaded images with personal information about the artist/uploader.
https://quill.art/ started as a rather unique team at Oculus. But, yeah... Too artsy for FB. So, now it is independently owned by the people who made it.
Ah yes, it's easy to forget that children's drawings aren't already alive in their (and their parents) imagination, and that we need to ship some personal (and in some ways, sensitive and later nostalgic) data to a for-profit entity in order to achieve that. Glad to have 'em around!
Shallow dismissals can be an indication of a knee-jerk reaction, potentially based on existing biases and/or life experiences, as opposed to the kind of rational examination that makes HN enjoyable.
The fact that they're disallowed on Hacker News changes the tone of conversation here significantly, relative to other social media; comments that stop and make the reader think -- preferably with supporting references and at-minimum-plausible arguments -- are valued, and the resulting perception of the community by participants is one of an intelligent, well-mannered collegiate environment (with healthy competition). In other words, the kind of surroundings that have traditionally been associated with long-standing centres of education.
Whether that perception is accurate (or desirable, honestly) is, I'd argue, up for debate. As would be whether the use of the term 'hacker' itself has diverged between its origins[1] and the context in which it's used here.
No: it wasn't a knee-jerk reaction; this company appears to be awful and given their repeated behaviour, this seems like standard practice for them. I do not dismiss the hard work and ingenuity of the people who developed the feature -- I'm sure it was challenging and rewarding as they saw it -- but I don't believe that "hard work", "impressive work" and "good work" are always overlapping elements in a venn diagram.
Awww... that is such a nice thing. But why would anyone post this to facebook? Wait a minute ai.facebook! That is such facebook thing to do. They just couldn't stop with this meta stuff. And now they are targeting kids to harvest data.
Let me see what security issues that are being discussed in the comment section. You know what I will put everything I was thinking up to this point as a comment itself.