Same energy as that Gus Van Sant remake of Psycho in the 90’s. Unimaginative. Unnecessary. Undercooked.

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100%.

Crabs. Evolutionarily superior, and proven so in multiple instances.

Put a 4ft tall intelligent crab in my house and I’ll write you a cheque!

Pretty embarrassing, but a perfect example of GenAI’s inability to neither provide effective iteration processes nor reliably replicate patterns across complex models.

I’m very much on the side of VFX/animation artists, and have spent a good chunk of my professional career training thousands of them.

AI isn’t going away. So it’s needs to be wrangled, legislated and democratised. It can be used ethically, in ways you described, and taken out of techbro hands.

I’m don’t think AI can be viewed in binary. It’s too complex, too nuanced to be a simple choice of adopting a pro or anti stance. There’s abhorrent, unethical behaviour by OpenAI and many others, but I don’t think being anti-ai is a viable longterm position.

As am I.

Background detection etc. is still generative ai. Thousand of images are still procured (or scraped) in order to train the model’s behaviour.

I’m sure lots of folks in VFX who were primarily roto-artists would disagree with the belief that human artists haven’t been replaced.