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It's a tool box of demos with the following: Segment Anything 2: Create video cutouts and other fun visual effects with a few clicks. Seamless Translation: He

It's a tool box of demos with the following: Segment Anything 2: Create video cutouts and other fun visual effects with a few clicks. Seamless Translation: Hear what you sound like in another language. Animated Drawings: Bring hand-drawn sketches to life with animations. Audiobox: Create an audio story with A1-generated voices and sounds.

echelon 2y ago
> This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas. Not accessible if you're in Illinois or Texas. They must have anti-AI laws, probably with voice conversion moreso than image segmentation and cartoon animation. Hopefully the lawmakers see beneficial use cases and fix their laws to target abuse instead of a blanket coarse-grained GenAI restriction.
- azinman2 2y ago
  Illinois has laws against biometrics, which basically can be interpreted as broadly as anything that even looks for a face as a binary classifier. The translation demo uses video, intended to be your face. Knowing meta they save all of it.
  - bongodongobob 2y ago
    "knowing meta" - as if any company working on AI isn't saving all the training data they can.
    - azinman2 2y ago
      Anthropic claims otherwise
- JKCalhoun 2y ago
  I'm in Nebraska — but I think, due to my ISP, I appear to be in the Chicago area. Oh well.
  - hnuser123456 2y ago
    Sounds like your ISP needs to update their IRR and RIR records
    - lxgr 2y ago
      For mobile data, there might not even be an Internet gateway in every state, so this entire idea seems a bit ridiculous. iCloud Private Relay also regularly "crosses state lines" that way. Of course, if this trend of state-specific restrictions continues, networks might want to invest in actually having per-state IP ranges.
- DonHopkins 2y ago
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- blagie 2y ago
  Texas sounds reasonable in general. I've written license terms which exclude Texas. That's home of the patent trolls. Heartland v. Kraft Foods is worth a read.
  - pridkett 2y ago
    Texas has the “Capture or Use of Biometric Identifiers” act. It’s very similar to the Illinois act that requires consent etc. Although it’s been on the books for a long time, Texas AG Paxton really only started enforcing it in 2022, 14 years after the law first appeared. The first target was Meta. In this case it’s not the patent trolls, but the biometric collection acts shared by Illinois and Texas. Aside - if you use Clear for airport security in those states, you get an additional consent screen. It seems like about 50% of the time the Clear employee clicks through the consent screen before you can read it. I imagine this does not fulfill the legal requirements when that happens.
    - meltyness 2y ago
      The provisions here don't seem like an unreasonable ask, really: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm
      - blagie 2y ago
        They don't. The complication -- in both directions -- is "record of hand or face geometry" If I take a photo of you, that's a record of face geometry. The Meta FAIR demos turned on my webcam because I didn't notice that was enabled when allowing audio. They grabbed a photo of me without my permission, with no purpose as far as I can tell. That should be illegal. However, posting a photo of a public space in a news article? That seems to fall under the same provision.
      - DonHopkins 2y ago
        This provision is going to throw a monkey wrench into Texas's new Electronic Genital Verification system at the Dallas Forth Worth Airport. I guess they're going to have to go back to the manual genital verification system, and hire thousands of Genital Enforcement Inspectors to hang out in the bathrooms, addressing the biggest problem that threatens society today, by diligently saving the children and protecting the rights of women from trans people and drag queens who need to take a dump and would prefer not to go outside on the lawn or on the windshield of a CyberTruck (so easily confused with a prison toilet). At least that will create many new jobs for ex-cons and unskilled American citizens who can't find work elsewhere because immigrant terrorists took their jobs. https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/47/20/26/27067779/3/ratio3x2_960.webp https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/47/20/26/27067779/3/ratio3x2_9... SECURITY NOTICE Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) Your genitalia may be photographed electronically during your use of this facility as part of the Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) pilot program at the direction of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. In the future, EGV will help keep Texans safe while protecting your privacy by screening for potentially improper restroom access using machine vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in lieu of traditional genital inspections. At this time images collected will be used solely for model training purposes and will not be used for law enforcement or shared with other entities except as pursuant to a subpoena, court order or as otherwise compelled by legal process. Your participation in this program is voluntary. You have the right to request the removal of your data by calling the EGV program office at (512) 463-0001 during normal operating hours (Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM).

echelon 2y ago

> This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas. Not accessible if you're in Illinois or Texas. They must have anti-AI laws, probably with voice conversion moreso than image segmentation and cartoon animation. Hopefully the lawmakers see beneficial use cases and fix their laws to target abuse instead of a blanket coarse-grained GenAI restriction.

azinman2 2y ago
Illinois has laws against biometrics, which basically can be interpreted as broadly as anything that even looks for a face as a binary classifier. The translation demo uses video, intended to be your face. Knowing meta they save all of it.
- bongodongobob 2y ago
  "knowing meta" - as if any company working on AI isn't saving all the training data they can.
  - azinman2 2y ago
    Anthropic claims otherwise
JKCalhoun 2y ago
I'm in Nebraska — but I think, due to my ISP, I appear to be in the Chicago area. Oh well.
- hnuser123456 2y ago
  Sounds like your ISP needs to update their IRR and RIR records
  - lxgr 2y ago
    For mobile data, there might not even be an Internet gateway in every state, so this entire idea seems a bit ridiculous. iCloud Private Relay also regularly "crosses state lines" that way. Of course, if this trend of state-specific restrictions continues, networks might want to invest in actually having per-state IP ranges.
DonHopkins 2y ago
[flagged]
blagie 2y ago
Texas sounds reasonable in general. I've written license terms which exclude Texas. That's home of the patent trolls. Heartland v. Kraft Foods is worth a read.
- pridkett 2y ago
  Texas has the “Capture or Use of Biometric Identifiers” act. It’s very similar to the Illinois act that requires consent etc. Although it’s been on the books for a long time, Texas AG Paxton really only started enforcing it in 2022, 14 years after the law first appeared. The first target was Meta. In this case it’s not the patent trolls, but the biometric collection acts shared by Illinois and Texas. Aside - if you use Clear for airport security in those states, you get an additional consent screen. It seems like about 50% of the time the Clear employee clicks through the consent screen before you can read it. I imagine this does not fulfill the legal requirements when that happens.
  - meltyness 2y ago
    The provisions here don't seem like an unreasonable ask, really: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm
    - blagie 2y ago
      They don't. The complication -- in both directions -- is "record of hand or face geometry" If I take a photo of you, that's a record of face geometry. The Meta FAIR demos turned on my webcam because I didn't notice that was enabled when allowing audio. They grabbed a photo of me without my permission, with no purpose as far as I can tell. That should be illegal. However, posting a photo of a public space in a news article? That seems to fall under the same provision.
    - DonHopkins 2y ago
      This provision is going to throw a monkey wrench into Texas's new Electronic Genital Verification system at the Dallas Forth Worth Airport. I guess they're going to have to go back to the manual genital verification system, and hire thousands of Genital Enforcement Inspectors to hang out in the bathrooms, addressing the biggest problem that threatens society today, by diligently saving the children and protecting the rights of women from trans people and drag queens who need to take a dump and would prefer not to go outside on the lawn or on the windshield of a CyberTruck (so easily confused with a prison toilet). At least that will create many new jobs for ex-cons and unskilled American citizens who can't find work elsewhere because immigrant terrorists took their jobs. https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/47/20/26/27067779/3/ratio3x2_960.webp https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/47/20/26/27067779/3/ratio3x2_9... SECURITY NOTICE Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) Your genitalia may be photographed electronically during your use of this facility as part of the Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) pilot program at the direction of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. In the future, EGV will help keep Texans safe while protecting your privacy by screening for potentially improper restroom access using machine vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in lieu of traditional genital inspections. At this time images collected will be used solely for model training purposes and will not be used for law enforcement or shared with other entities except as pursuant to a subpoena, court order or as otherwise compelled by legal process. Your participation in this program is voluntary. You have the right to request the removal of your data by calling the EGV program office at (512) 463-0001 during normal operating hours (Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM).