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We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
Ander Artola Velasco, Stratis Tsirtsis, Nastaran Okati, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21627

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
State-of-the-art large language models require specialized hardware and substantial energy to operate. As a consequence, cloud-based services that provide access to large language models have become very popular. In these services, the price users pay for an output provided by a model depends on the number of tokens the model uses to generate it -- they pay a fixed price per token. In this work, we show that this pricing mechanism creates a financial incentive for providers to strategize and mi…

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PropMolFlow: Property-guided Molecule Generation with Geometry-Complete Flow Matching
Molecule generation is advancing rapidly in chemical discovery and drug design. Flow matching methods have recently set the state of the art (SOTA) in unconditional molecule generation, surpassing score-based diffusion models. However, diffusion models still lead in property-guided generation. In this work, we introduce PropMolFlow, a novel approach for property-guided molecule generation based on geometry-complete SE(3)-equivariant flow matching. Integrating five different property embedding m…

“Our most effective weapons against AI, and the right wing that has adopted it, may not be strikes, boycotts or the power of dialectics. They might be replying “cringe,” “this sucks,” and “this looks like shit.”“
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmission…

A preview of Monday’s post in case you need a distraction from the state of the world.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-generative-turn-on-ais-as-stochastic-parrots-and-art/

The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art - varnelis.net
Kazys Varnelis, Stochastic Parrots, 2025.Large Language Model (LLM)-based Artificial Intelligences have been derided for hallucinating—a topic that I addressed in my last essay, “The New Surrealism. On AI and Hallucinations,”—and labeled “stochastic parrots,” supposedly incapable of generating authentic meaning beyond remixed texts. Coined by researcher Emily Bender and her colleagues, the term “stochastic parrots” describes ...

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2025-05-28 07:18:10

ART-DECO: Arbitrary Text Guidance for 3D Detailizer Construction
Qimin Chen, Yuezhi Yang, Yifang Wang, Vladimir G. Kim, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Hao Zhang, Zhiqin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20431

ART-DECO: Arbitrary Text Guidance for 3D Detailizer Construction
We introduce a 3D detailizer, a neural model which can instantaneously (in <1s) transform a coarse 3D shape proxy into a high-quality asset with detailed geometry and texture as guided by an input text prompt. Our model is trained using the text prompt, which defines the shape class and characterizes the appearance and fine-grained style of the generated details. The coarse 3D proxy, which can be easily varied and adjusted (e.g., via user editing), provides structure control over the final shap…