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That seems at odds with the concerns an HNer brought up the other day about their adult business and moving to SF. Most people warned them that VC is still reti
by JBlue42 9y ago
That seems at odds with the concerns an HNer brought up the other day about their adult business and moving to SF. Most people warned them that VC is still reticent about porn. I guess it's whatever they would perceive would make them money.
As to your advertising idea, that's interesting but also brings up issues don't you think? Especially now with better facial recognition technology. For example, walking down a street, a camera scans your face, pull up a bunch of data on you (say you've been looking for a kayak lately), then in a nearby billboard or hologram display area, they show you images of yourself and your family kayaking down the Colorado or in an ocean.
What's interesting in movies/tv is that as the technology matures, we may never see some of our stars actually age or even what they truly look like. A lot of time and money is already spent on beauty work so it's not too big a leap to see this being mixed in with that.
- bsenftner 9y agoVC are not reticent about porn, only about not making a killing at it if they go into porn. If they can capture any serious revenue flows, that is all they care about. Any discussion otherwise is purely safety speech. Interesting you should mention facial recognition, because that is what I turned the technology into - or reverted it back into. My 'digital double' creation for automated actor replacement involves neural net trained 3D reconstruction of faces. It originally came from pose correction for facial recognition. Being an animation/VFX, guy I licensed the 3D reconstruction tech from an FR company. After my startup efforts failed, the FR company hired me because I'd done the largest scale use of their technology at the time. Now I create mesh network appliances of their tech, combined with my production tech from my feature animation days, to create apps for dynamic FR security perimeters. The interesting thing is, the frame processing I do could easily be fed into a 'deep fake' system to produce crazy fake media pretty much automatically. We track faces frame to frame and project a 3D polygon mesh matching their facial expression. Need more?
- JBlue42 9y agoRe: VCs - That makes sense. The thread I was referring to is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252568 As much as I read about new tech stuff, I had no idea how far things were along until all the deepfake porn headlines hit the news the past few weeks. I guess amidst all the hand-wringing over Carrie Fisher and Grand Moff Tarkin's "looks" in Rogue One it never really struck me that that stuff had 'arrived'.