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AI Video Game Mod Mashups Are Taking Off—Here Are the Wackiest Examples

Minecraft in Elden Ring, Skate in Call of Duty, and Spider-Man in Gotham. AI vibe coders are creating crazy video game mashup mods.

Decrypt · 21 minutes ago

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I trained Turkish TTS from scratch using the Drifting method with an RTX 5090.

Github: https://github.com/kadirnar/drifting-tts Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Vyvo/drifting-tts-tr-demo submitted by /u/kadir_nar [link] [comments]

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