[HN Gopher] Using AI to bring children's drawings to life (2021)
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Using AI to bring children's drawings to life (2021)
Author : myth_drannon
Score : 75 points
Date : 2022-02-25 16:55 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| jrd79 wrote:
| Where's the live online demo where I can upload something and
| watch it work? Without that I have no confidence that the system
| actually works.
|
| [EDIT] Sorry, missed that!
| tony_cannistra wrote:
| It's linked in the article. https://sketch.metademolab.com/
| jka wrote:
| Ah yes, it's easy to forget that children's drawings aren't
| already alive in their (and their parents) imagination, and that
| we need to ship some personal (and in some ways, sensitive and
| later nostalgic) data to a for-profit entity in order to achieve
| that. Glad to have 'em around!
| forgotmyoldacc wrote:
| > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other
| people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| jka wrote:
| Duly noted, thank you.
|
| Shallow dismissals can be an indication of a knee-jerk
| reaction, potentially based on existing biases and/or life
| experiences, as opposed to the kind of rational examination
| that makes HN enjoyable.
|
| The fact that they're disallowed on Hacker News changes the
| tone of conversation here significantly, relative to other
| social media; comments that stop and make the reader think --
| preferably with supporting references and at-minimum-
| plausible arguments -- are valued, and the resulting
| perception of the community by participants is one of an
| intelligent, well-mannered collegiate environment (with
| healthy competition). In other words, the kind of
| surroundings that have traditionally been associated with
| long-standing centres of education.
|
| Whether that perception is accurate (or desirable, honestly)
| is, I'd argue, up for debate. As would be whether the use of
| the term 'hacker' itself has diverged between its origins[1]
| and the context in which it's used here.
|
| No: it wasn't a knee-jerk reaction; this company appears to
| be awful and given their repeated behaviour, this seems like
| standard practice for them. I do not dismiss the hard work
| and ingenuity of the people who developed the feature -- I'm
| sure it was challenging and rewarding as they saw it -- but I
| don't believe that "hard work", "impressive work" and "good
| work" are always overlapping elements in a venn diagram.
|
| [1] - http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html
| elpakal wrote:
| Nice, but I'm still not giving Meta anything especially my
| child's art
| [deleted]
| digdugdirk wrote:
| Is there a particular reason for an outsized percentage of the
| activities being various forms of martial arts?
|
| Is this a common existing training set for example?
| myth_drannon wrote:
| In the app itself it's only a small percentage.
| jonshariat wrote:
| I remember about 20 years ago in school, playing with a tool like
| this. It also had something for the mouth that would make it look
| like its talking.
|
| Sometimes I feel like so little progress or so much progress is
| made in the same day.
| sockpuppet69 wrote:
| hkt wrote:
| If it was another company doing this I'd be in two minds as to
| whether or not it was creepy. With Facebook doing it, I'm
| convinced.
| aunty_helen wrote:
| Maybe they're just trying to buy some goodwill + people growing
| up with positive memories of FB may be more likely to open an
| account etc
| hjessmith wrote:
| If it makes you feel better, there's no data being collected
| other than the images and annotation fixes (and that only
| occurs if you click 'agree' on the consent page).
|
| You also don't need to be signed in Facebook or anything to use
| the demo- there's no way to link the uploaded images with
| personal information about the artist/uploader.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| by analyzing your child's drawings we're able to determine with
| 90% accuracy what content to push at them over the next decade
| to turn them into a school shooter! Not that we would do that
| unless somebody paid us.
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| Yeah it will be interesting to see how they use this to sell
| adspace for kids.
| can16358p wrote:
| This is great.
|
| If only Meta focused their power and talent to more projects like
| this...
| [deleted]
| corysama wrote:
| https://quill.art/ started as a rather unique team at Oculus.
| But, yeah... Too artsy for FB. So, now it is independently
| owned by the people who made it.
| punnerud wrote:
| Something like this?
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443466
|
| (Create a world only using your voice)
| jsnodlin wrote:
| JoeJonathan wrote:
| While Meta is creepy, this is pretty awesome. I could imagine a
| platform that allows you to animate a few characters &
| backgrounds to make an animated storybook or cartoon.
| tgv wrote:
| It might look nice to adults, but kids really don't need to see a
| machine outdo them. It might frustrate them, and give up.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Hm. KidPix was a #1 bestseller for years. Kids loved it. Not
| sure today's kids are harmed by seeing their creativity come to
| life.
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