Instagram has it’s fair share of blame for the trend, but I don’t think they were the progenitor, as it were. Snapchat was far more heavy-handed with face altering filters from the get-go, as I remember it. Instagram was mostly just the “old-school” sepia tone, black-and-white type filters for the most part until that picked up.

I thought this felt off for the dev to do. I wonder if he has a case for his game being stolen/co-opted like this.

Not OP, but just a boiler plate response would be fine for me. “Sorry [insert name here]. You are no longer being considered for this position. (Optional) Good luck on other applications”. Could even have it set up to sends those out automatically.

That is interesting. Thanks for the extra info!

The game is rendered at a lower resolution, this saves a lot of resources.

Then dedicated AI cores or even special AI scaler chips get used to upscale the image back to the requested resolution.

I get that much. Or at least, I get that’s the intention.

This is a fixed cost and can be done with little power since the components are designed to do this task.

This us the part I struggle to believe/understand. I’m roughly aware of how resource intensive upscaling is on locally hosted models. The necessary tech/resources to do that to 4k+ in real time (120+ fps) seems at least equivalent, if not more expensive, to just rendering it that way in the first place. Are these “scaler chips” really that much more advanced/efficient?

Further questions aside, I appreciate the explanation. Thanks!

Is there an eli5 on how “ai upscaling” is less (or even equally) technologically demanding than just putting in better hardware?

They can’t even properly check their copy on critical infrastructure. Top notch work over there, top to bottom.

He threw $44 billion at it for the right to destroy it. It wasnt worth that much.

Not taking into account movement forward/backward, and with an admittedly very crude measurement method, the total path is roughly 174,875 km. If you took a 7.4 hr flight every day for 28 days straight*, you could possibly beat the moon. Probably give a Taylor Swift a run for her money, too.

*If you only did “work days”, you’d have to fly 10.3 hours a day.

And what was the guy doing that he couldn’t take care of it?

Weird how many “false positives” they get. Uncanny.

You clearly need some better role models period if you’re spending so much time trying to tear down strangers that are just spreading positivity.

Just because you don’t do something doesn’t mean nobody does. Maybe don’t assume something is made up just because you’re unfamiliar with it.

Wonder if she’s the wife of this guy’s neighbor: https://files.catbox.moe/bii7n8.jpg

This is your regular reminder that you are a brain thing piloting a bone mech that’s covered in flesh.

I’m not arguing one way or another

You literally were.

Lol, “insufferable”. News flash - there’s no “reason” to care about anything. Learn to find enjoyment in life where you can. You don’t get a reward for choosing to be miserable the whole time.

Cake Day is from birthdays, mate. You know? That annual celebration of creation where there’s usually cake?

Stop letting spez live in your head and just enjoy where you’re at.

Not to say that anything about the project is good, but the first human implantee is very much alive.

Boy, your face is red like a strawbrerry.