Reblogging to add that the person who put this together has turned it into a full-fledged website, if that's any easier to spread around!

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model

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one of my favorite wet beast for this wednesday

#mybal

#i am contractually obligated to say name ONE political agenda benefitting from the droids cartoon ill wait (via @cosmik-homo)

That one wasn't motivated by any particular propaganda goal; the studio just wanted to cash in on the fame of the heroes of the Rebellion, but they were too cheap to pay for the likeness rights, so they wrote out all the real humans and just used the droids (who don't have rights).

I've always enjoyed the take that the early (Legends) EU stories are in-universe science fiction.

Galaxy just went through a horrifying paroxysm of violence caused by a superweapon (the Death Star) and the vicious Emperor Palpatine.

So for the next couple decades, pulp stories are full of either "What if another, worse superweapon??" or "What if Palpatine comes back??"

And none of that makes sense, and it definitely doesn't make sense that there would be five distinct Horrible Superweapons all discovered in an eight-year period. But it absolutely makes sense that many different authors would all write pulpy stories about a bunch of different Horrible Superweapons.

Not quite the same thing, since it accepts at least the original trilogy as "accurate", but a very fun take.

The original trilogy is a reasonably high-quality docudrama, produced in the early New Republic era. That's why the rebellion activities get put on such few individuals, despite being a thing that involved millions as a galaxy wide civil war. Luke and Han legitimately did blow up the Death Star and Luke defeated Vader. But some of the other exploits are rather exaggerated.

Leia and Han thought it was funny than hell.

The prequels were a cash grab docudrama that suffered from too many mandates. The stuff in Phantom Menace that folks find boring is *much* closer to the actual events, but the Ken Burns guy got muscled out. The series also really struggled with "humanizing" Darth Vader while keeping scope in check.

The biggest failure was how it treated the Clone Wars. In the real Clone Wars, all sides used clones, and this was part of how awful it was. But, the showrunners realized that it would make the Old Republic look a lot worse if they were using the same weapon as the enemies, so the Confederacy of Independent Systems got to have disposable "battle droids" instead.

Also, the Clone "Wars" got compressed into one four year conflict, from something that spanned multiple conflicts over decades and a ton of regional and galactic powers.