Which is a shame, because these groups are so wonderful and fucking cool! AI just gives the dudes who'd flame out after one meetup because they don't have anything to offer and aren't interesting to talk with the ability to get in on a technicality.

And, usually, they are here to find a way to monetize it, which if successful takes vanishingly small opportunities away from the rest of the group. All at a scale that no one else can match. AI Art is, in effect, an invasive species in these areas.

So what they bring, instead, is loads of Product that they are incapable of discussing in an interesting way either technical or thematic, because art is a process of making a million decisions and they outsourced that task to an industrial-grade bullshit machine.

When they interact with other artists' work the cloud of "did you or are you going to feed it to a model" hangs over the whole thing. They don't have any need for collaborators because they aren't even doing the creative process themselves, they'd sooner employ a machine for that.

Those hawking AI created wares are, in my opinion, lacking in what they bring to the table in all these areas. They (usually) end up clashing with the artists more than conversing with them, and they rarely have much to share about their process because the process is just writing prompts.

People come to these communities for countless reasons, but in general they're looking for a few things: good art they can appreciate, like-minded people, potential collaborators, opportunities for conversation about the craft, and opportunities for self-promotion (no shade, we all need to eat).

Want to see this so bad, but after seeing The Sacrifice in theaters I feel the need to wait until I have a chance to see it on the biggest screen possible.

Fair. If real life has taught me anything, what he would need to do is to have an autistic hyperfixation he needs to explain in minute detail to her. Instead he would probably just try to smoke a cigarette to prove he's tough and hack up a lung.

Lol yeah, I am mostly joking in that I will probably pick it up sometime in the near-ish future when I have a little more free time but also if she was an option I would probably be playing right now.

Damn. Coming up with insulting nicknames for his enemies and getting them to stick used to be the thing he was arguably best at. Even that's going with the cognitive decline. It's like the first time your grandpa forgets your name.

Rossellini also goes over how she and Lynch rehearsed for a full day, at her request, to make sure he got her vision for the character before they filmed it. Hard to see it as exploitation, which is probably why Ebert was the only one who did.

"I was told that Roger Ebert said that [Lynch] exploited me, and I was surprised, because I was an adult. I was 31 or 32. I chose to play the character."

She talks about it here.

indiewire.com/news/general...

Damn didn't know Qui-Gon could get it like that.