Monday, July 27
Daily News Stuff 27 July 2026
Oh President Madagascar Edition
Trial and error wins the day over AI innumeracy. Mostly.
Cat for scale. (Yes, this scale is actually correct. Somewhere along the way it lost two wheels though.)
The perspective on this one feels a little off, but not as bad as some other composite scenes I tried.
I'm starting to get a bit specific here. I already have images I can't upload because they give too much away. I think this is vague enough.
Some scenes it has endless trouble with; other scenes it nails first try (or second).
Disclaimer: Groundhog Day is a Christmas movie.
Oh President Madagascar Edition
Top Story
- Whenever you copy this weird white text on a white background, a little white light lights up white to let you know you've done it. (Futurism)
If only it were so simple.
If you're copying and pasting your exam question into an AI to cheat, at least read the answer it spits out.
Also, don't ever do that. Copy into a neutral environment like Notepad (or Notepad++) precisely so that you don't inadvertently include nasty Unicode stuff, or, in this case, an instruction to the AI to make a nonsensical reference to an island off East Africa in your final exam paper.
Tech News
- Apple is facing the worst possible future. (WCCFTech)
By which I mean having to pay as much for RAM as everyone else.
- Minecraft system requirements have gone up. (Tom's Hardware)
Apparently my work laptop now falls below not only the recommended specs, but the minimum specs. Yes, it's a bit laggy when running with ~200 mods installed, but it's perfectly fine unmodded.
- TSMC's 2nm production is in full swing. (WCCFTech)
Not ahead of time either, given that it can take six months for a completed chip to roll off the production line.
- Research: Cosmic ray spallation, tufa versus travertine flowstone, positrons are evil, muon tomography, and the proper attitude for a cat tasked with editing fanfiction.
Noodling
Actually, that's pretty close to what I had in mind.Not so happy with this one. Grok can't count when it comes to wheeled vehicles.
Trial and error wins the day over AI innumeracy. Mostly.
Cat for scale. (Yes, this scale is actually correct. Somewhere along the way it lost two wheels though.)
This... Sort of works. But Grok can't nail the details; it always goes overboard.
Took some tweaking, but huh. That is what she would look like.
Took some tweaking, but huh. That is what she would look like.
Huh. I expected this one to break it, but it nailed it on the first attempt. (Yes, it has arms. How else could it wear a t-shirt?)
The perspective on this one feels a little off, but not as bad as some other composite scenes I tried.
I'm starting to get a bit specific here. I already have images I can't upload because they give too much away. I think this is vague enough.
Some scenes it has endless trouble with; other scenes it nails first try (or second).
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Groundhog Day is a Christmas movie.
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Independence Day is a Christmas movie!
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 28 2026 12:09 AM (LADmw)
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The consistency across scenes is the interesting part here. A year ago the character would drift every second generation, and now the failures are perspective in composite shots rather than the subject itself.
Worth noting the pipeline now runs one step further: once you have a still you are happy with, Imagine will animate it, and composite scenes that read as slightly off as stills often look fine with a few seconds of motion behind them. I have been putting mine through an image to video generator built on Imagine 1.5 that does the audio track and lip sync in the same pass, charged per clip rather than by subscription, which suits this kind of one-off experimenting.
The t-shirt one landing on the first attempt is genuinely surprising. Clothing on non-human anatomy used to be the reliable way to break these things.
Worth noting the pipeline now runs one step further: once you have a still you are happy with, Imagine will animate it, and composite scenes that read as slightly off as stills often look fine with a few seconds of motion behind them. I have been putting mine through an image to video generator built on Imagine 1.5 that does the audio track and lip sync in the same pass, charged per clip rather than by subscription, which suits this kind of one-off experimenting.
The t-shirt one landing on the first attempt is genuinely surprising. Clothing on non-human anatomy used to be the reliable way to break these things.
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