Should you straighten your UVs? I’ll go over the pros and cons, especially for tapered shapes, in this thread →

Groups in the UK who oppose AI exploiting creatives’ work without permission: - 95% of artists - Thousands of British musicians & authors - 79% of Members of Parliament - The House of Lords - The Green Party - 95% of respondents to the UK public consultation on the topic Groups

‘Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.” Great piece in The Atlantic pointing out that AI companies spend huge amounts of money simultaneously (i) defending their own IP and (ii) arguing that they can use other people’s for free. theatlantic.com/technology/202…

After one victory, the Fight Against Data Centre Construction in Scotland continues. Please join in, write to your MP and make data centres a political issue in local elections. "The day after Edinburgh Council votes to take a temporary moratorium on AI data centres being

In 2003, a German film crew followed a nomadic family in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The film, The Story of the Weeping Camel, was nominated for an Oscar. A mother camel had rejected her newborn after a brutal two-day labour. Without her milk, the calf would die. The family knew

1:1 scale recreation of the Titanic leaving Belfast docks using 1000 drones 🤯

AI companies’ argument that they shouldn’t have to reveal the training data they use because it is a ‘trade secret’ is absurd. They are using other people’s work - other people’s intellectual property. People’s right to know when their property is being exploited commercially

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos “An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...

Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: "AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research." And when that happens,

How to 3D paint fur & feathers in Marmoset Toolbag 🐰 Painting complex forms like feathers and fur can be a brushstroke away, no modeling or sculpting required. In this demo, we build a Tile Strip brush, then tweak its settings to quickly paint soft fur and flight feathers.

When I pointed out to the head of the UK's ‘Sovereign AI Fund’, James Wise, that previous technologies weren't built by stealing the work of the country's creatives, he ignored the point and called me a “comment guy”. So I ask him this directly, instead of in his comments:

The UK’s Sovereign AI Fund launches today. Journalists covering it - please ask whether it will invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence. I asked its Chair this, and he replied without answering the question. Lots of AI companies train in this way

The ‘Sovereign AI Fund’, which invests UK taxpayers’ money, announced its first portfolio of 6 companies . Some of them seem to train AI on copyrighted work without a licence. UK taxpayer money should not go to AI companies that exploit creatives. Suspect this won't go down

I got blocked by the head of the UK's 'Sovereign AI Fund' after asking several times (politely I think) whether they would invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence. He called me a liar & a troll, without evidence. Why will the Sovereign AI Fund not

Why is the BBC - which is meant to be balanced - running what amounts to propaganda for the AI industry, presented as reporting? In this segment: - we are told it “can only be good for all of us” - concerns of job replacement are dismissed - concerns of students being overly

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In this thread, I mention that you should straighten things that are straight in 3D, but I didn’t explain why very well or provide a good visual example. The main reason to do this is for bake quality. So let’s dive in 🧵->

Baroness Kidron with a clear message to the UK government in The Times today: The Sovereign AI Fund should rule out investing in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence. Taxpayer money should not be funding exploitative AI companies. thetimes.co.uk/business/techn…

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