Robot dogs with heads of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg roam San Francisco streets
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/robot-dogs-with-heads-of-elon-musk-and-mark-zuckerberg-roam-san-francisco-streets-3353715/
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AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 148 pts · 126d
One, that's nightmare fuel. Two, more weird art like this please.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 53 pts · 126d
They need to be fucking.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 126d
Or 69'ing.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 21 pts · 126d
They can refuel each other by docking or something. It'll be like that robot thats constantly sweeping the oil into itself and when it stops, it dies.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 126d
That's a funny way to spell dicking.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 126d
Fun fact: the term docking can refer to one person putting the head of their penis inside of the foreskin of another person.
FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 126d
I guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000 for this particular factoid.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
I didn't know the term, but I wouldn't say I'm "lucky", now.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
I thought it died some years back.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 126d
Robot dog centepeding.
homes@piefed.world · 13 pts · 126d
Yeah, I also feel kind of conflicted about this.
klu9@piefed.social · 82 pts · 126d
Only one response to that:
Etterra@discuss.online · 25 pts · 126d
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 125d
I actually did destroy the family furbies this way.
We got them, thought they were fun for a bit... but they wouldn't ever shut up.
We put them in a drawer, and they'd just rattle and groan, in the middle of the damn night.
So one day I took em, put em in the middle of the road, covered them in kerosene, lit em up.
... with a safety lighter, of course.
I remember their protestations as they burned.
Goddamn demon toys.
Never got punished for it, couple months later somebody just asked 'whatever happened to those damn fur toy things?'
'oh, i dunno, i thought you took em away or something'
'... whatever, just glad those are gone, christ, they would not stop yammering'.
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 125d
Or delete Facebook
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 126d
thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 126d
Absolute nightmare fuel.
Me if I saw one IRL
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 23 pts · 126d
Horrific, but still more lifelike than the real Zuck.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 126d
If you take the time to actually read the article/watch the video, the dogs are constantly taking pictures in styles of their person, and shit them out onto the floor lol.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 126d
So litering
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 4 pts · 126d
For art.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
It wasn't actually clear if they shit photos on the street, or just at the gallery.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 126d
If I see anything with Zuckerberg's face, I am bailing, "human", robot, dog, whatever
I find him very disturbing on a fundamental level, I can't tell you why but he's scary to me, I would not touch it under any circumstances
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 126d
cuz the dude is robot, and that's the uncanny valley you're feeling.
That or he'sa sleezey creepy billionaire.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 126d
even llm has more soul than those
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 1 pts · 126d
We might make robots that are people someday.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Might?
it's almost a certainty.
Just as soon as we get robots that can get stuffed into a woman-like body, it's going to happen. Perverts. they ruin everything.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 2 pts · 126d
Nah. We could all die first, move away from rmbodied models of personhood where consciousness is rarely mostly-local, or some of the really weird scifi shit like a soup of mingling utility clouds or something.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 125d
Just use real human brains for that.
LordMayor@piefed.social · 3 pts · 125d
Makes me think of the dog at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 125d
If I see anything with those morons head, I will kick them so hard.
whelk@retrolemmy.com · 17 pts · 126d
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 125d
Do we need a robot guillotine for those or will a regular one do?
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 126d
Public urinal on legs?
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 126d
dude I want to punt these things so fuckin hard im actually jealous im not their right now.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 126d
Wow. I hate it. Fuck this guy.
Rooster326@programming.dev · 8 pts · 126d
You're supposed to hate it.
It talks of how art once influenced you, and now its algorithms.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 126d
I do not condone the abuse of animals, but I will make an exception with this. Time to put some mutts to sleep via percussive maintenance.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
My dog hates dogs. I would turn her loose on one of these shitboxes
m3t00@piefed.world · 11 pts · 126d
would be great in a video game. sniper rifle
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 126d
skibidi
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 126d
no you don't understand this is literally skibidi toilet all hail
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
6 7
23 skidoo
GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 125d
Q
texture@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 126d
im all for art and stuff, even make some now and then, but i literally hate these things. it would take all my willpower not to stomp those things on site. sick of seeing them. cheers and be well.
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 125d
I think that's the reaction the artist intended: revulsion.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 125d
Don't know about you but for me it'd be less revulsion and more just an outlet for my unyielding hatred.
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
That works, too!
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 126d
> Posts the only video on IG
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PizzaLamp25@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 126d
I feel sorry for the car or truck that runs them over, poor vehicle.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 125d
if i saw that IRL i would be laughing.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 125d
My religion states that I have to destroy them if I see them.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 125d
No, no, thats so ridiculous, why does Kojima always do this absurd over the top nonsense?
Oh whats that?
This is actual reality?
... Oh.
Maybe that Kojima guy was actually onto something.
daannii@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 126d
I realize there are amazing artists with great sculpting skills. But these faces do look like they were made from real face moulds.
Which makes me wonder.
Conclusion. They both are behind the stunt.
There was a tesla humanoid robot a while back with musks face.
Dude. It's likely them running these robots. Remotely.
Cause they can't go out in public. Cause of the angry mobs.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 126d
Using AI to create a 3D mold from a few photos?
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Yeah the 3d ai is no where at that level.
Only way to make a good 3d model is 3d scan. You can do that with a regular camera or a fancy scanner. The real work (compiling images) is done on the software.
Still requires person to agree. It takes at minimum 100 photos to get a good model.
But even with a 3d model, you'd have to make a 3d print. Resin would be most accurate. Not filament.
Printed to scale.
Then turn that into a mould. Because you can't use resin moulds.
Then make a support shell mould. Which you would need to make even if mould was made directly from face but it's way easier to do it from a real face. Plus you get fine lines and pores. If you have a really high resolution silicone.
Then also someone skilled, painted it and hand added hair. Each strand is manually added. You can buy hair patches but it looks directly added. Like how it's done on high end doll heads. (But most cheap toy dolls use machines that add clumps at a time. Not single hair. or sew the hair on.)
These must have been incredibly expensive to produce.
Well, expensive for you or me.
Maybe 5k for a head. Assuming a few heads were made. That's what I would guess knowing the labor and materials involved.
If only one head. Maybe more. Since mould making process is expensive.
$6k or 7k maybe? Also more because of the NDA.
Assuming that musk or zuck are the ones commissioning these.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 4 pts · 126d
Have you seen Beeple's other work?
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
No. Link ?
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 2 pts · 126d
Nobody ever made sculptures before that.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 125d
Not a single 3D printer or scanner was used for Lord of the rings.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
Yeah traditionally, real faces are used to make moulds.
Then for fx stuff, the sculptist uses a cast model of the face to make the fx latex pieces of masks or whatever to fit on that person's face.
High quality ones , anyway. When it's tailored for the persons face it fits better and looks better.
There are a ton of videos on how this is all done. I always liked watching videos on movie magic. So that's how I know the basics.
But I can say that almost always, when a likeness of someone is needed, they make the prop from making moulds from the actual person's face.
That's the best source.
3d printing itself , introduced artifacts and errors. So it's not really the best medium.
Even madame tussauds waxworks starts with moulds made from the people's faces (people who are alive anyway).
Fun fact. Michael Myers from Halloween movies wears a William Shatner latex mask. Made from a cast of his face.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 125d
Tussauds 3D scans celebrity faces.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
No they don't.
https://www.madametussauds.com/wien/en/what-s-inside/behind-the-scenes/
visnae@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
Na, there are great artists out there with a sense for details. Check out Bobby Fingers youtube channel for instance. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKCiTquPMavBqgXgrM9mBg He usually make dioramas with (a ridiculous) commentary, but one time he made Jeff Bezos head as a rowing boat.
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
Bobby Fingers is amazing. Also incredibly funny.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 125d
You can generate a 3D image of a head with enough pictures of that stupid head.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
These AI generated 3d models from a few images are not very good. As I said the renders look kinda ok. But you pull up the actual mesh and they are garbage.
Do do a legit good scam you have to take a ton of photos from multiple heights , 360 degrees. And make sure the lighting is good and there is a solid back drop so the software can tell what to model.
Here is an example of what I mean. It's called photogrammetry.
Cricket@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 125d
I think that the technology may have evolved a lot since the early days of photogrammetry, or perhaps making a 3D model of a face is easier than a large object like in your example. Also, how do you suppose they got 3D scans of Picasso's and Warhol's faces for those perfect, life-like rubber faces on that video? They were both dead decades before the development of 3D scanning and photogrammetry.
Finally, here are some examples of photo to 3D model applications that appear to only need one photo:
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 125d
They actually are. You can iteratively correct them.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
They really aren't. I actually make 3d models.
The only half ass decent ai ones are ones that are basically copies of other 3d designs made from humans to the point you can barely tell them apart. Cause it's just a copy.
These ads for ai 3d models are false.
They are poor.
So part of making 3d model assets is that the mesh is wrapped in a map.
Think of a globe wrapped in paper of a map of the earth.
Doing this allows for a much lower mesh triangle. Lower poly. But it can give the impression it's higher because the wrap is from actual images and is upscaled.
So render images look high quality but the actually aren't. It's the wrap.
Here is an example. You 3d scan a chocolate Santa. In foil. All the little wrinkles in the foil and details look like they were captured. But it's not actually true. The wrap makes it look like it's a high quality mesh. But it's just a blob shape. It doesn't actually contain wrinkles or texture.
It's all just the wrap. This sort of process is great for making digital assets. It makes low poly realistic items. But it's garbage for making 3d prints.
I'm going to reply to this with another image that shows this in relation to 3d printing.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
Here is a phot of the ai 3d render which looks realistic.
To the 3d print model. Which shows most details are missing. Almost like it was clay and smoothed out.
The details are only there from the uv map wrap.
They aren't actually on the model mesh.
There are other rendering tricks you can do to make textures in wraps look "3d" . But it's not really 3d. It's flat surface wraps.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
Another.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 126d
Lol, Beeple.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 5 pts · 126d
Each of he robots poops out AI art in the style of whoever's head it is. No surprise the artist is famous for NFTs.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 126d
Now throw the current human snidely whiplash relics in the museum as well.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 126d
Surveillance/RoboCop dogs.
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 126d
🤡
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 126d
Deploy the stompy boots.
WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
The artist is clearly a fan of the billionaires comparing them with Picasso and Warhol.
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 126d
not necessarily
they don't have to shape it in a good way to shape our contemporary records
whereas picasso shaped the world in awe and warhol in consumerism, zuckerberg literally does it into consumerism
Cherry@piefed.social · 2 pts · 126d
So they picked a dog shape? why not a turd shapes.
We like dogs.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d
because they shit pictures that they take. A turd can't shit another turd.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d
Counterpoint: everything that comes out of shit is also shit
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
I get where you're coming from, and I whole heartedly agree, but a shit still can't take a shit. If you take a shit, and do anything to take something out of it, you will have shit, but it's not taking a shit.
A dog can take a shit.
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 126d
turds do not have any form to distort
we also like picasso
Oaksey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 126d
He was a the biggest winner out of NFTs that I know of.
cybercafe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 125d
glasratz@feddit.org · 2 pts · 125d
Sure it's not just their replacement heads that escaped?
Pman@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 126d
So a crypto bro douche is being a douche again? How a propos.