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@prettyusefulUI @Anamatics_ @JoshDaws I'm stepping away from this, because you're building the ring you want to fight in as you fight in it. This is going to devolve into troll nonsense when you get backed far enough into a corner--that personality is clear enough. It's a waste.

@Anamatics_ @MisterParadigm @JoshDaws yes, my hobbyist art is objectively superior what you're asking me to do is lie to these kids and tell them they are talented, which is cruel on them

The uncomfortable truth AI is exposing is that most “artists” are merely craftsmen who create assets for companies and, in some rare instances, real artists with something to say. Their work is proving to be replaceable.

@prettyusefulUI @Anamatics_ @JoshDaws You keep throwing around "objective" like uttering the word is some kind of truth incantation. And you're also entirely fabricating an argument about what I'm saying you should be telling other artists. You're arguing with a specter most convenient to you; useful lies.

@Anamatics_ @prettyusefulUI @JoshDaws I don't know which of us you're responding to.

@prettyusefulUI @MisterParadigm @JoshDaws If we are talking about "traditional" standards, your not exactly a renaissance master, buddy.

@prettyusefulUI @JoshDaws No it isn't, and you know it. Some drawings are shit. Some aren't. You're lying through your teeth to make a point that doesn't exist without you cultivating it. But you know that, too. You're not stupid, and that leaves dishonest.

@MisterParadigm @JoshDaws that's a very romantic way of saying "just pretend the shit drawings aren't shit"

@JoshDaws This is a disingenuous rationalization by someone with an investment in AI. The fact that you put "merely" and "craftsmen" together in this self-satisfying assessment is more honest than you intended for it to be. But you, of course, have something to say. You're a real artist.

@prettyusefulUI @JoshDaws If you need to heavily--dishonestly--caricaturize your opposition in order to establish superiority, you are not the person you hope you are. You are not as smart, not as respectable, and not as honest. Stop letting yourself get away with it.

@JoshDaws nailed it Us real artists are not concerned because traditional art isn't going anywhere If you pay attention it's only really the weird anime kids that draw shitty felt tip naruto drawings on printer paper or the weeb virgins that draw poorly proportioned women on their iPads

AI content generators fall back on efficiency and the vague virtues of futurism, and willfully stop short of thinking too long and hard about the problem of digital dementia--the loss of creative cognitive function, similar to that created by instant answers from smart phones.

@NACHOS2D_ It is another milestone in the wrong direction, proving, as other technology has done, that humanity will not say "no" when their ambition is attainable and the stakes are the gradual, pernicious degradation of cognitive function--in this case, creative ideation.

AI is cooking. AI animation is already getting very close to human animation. When AI becomes capable of creating long videos in just minutes, it will change everything for many animators. The shift is happening right now. The people ignoring this AI era will be left behind.

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@lexx_aura Imagine being $80k in debt, having genuinely studied a craft, built the skill to create something from scratch, and a bed jockey who asked a computer for art had the impulse to not just promote his product and move on, but self-satisfyingly demean you for the futility of effort.

Imagine studying 4 years for a CGI degree just for me to prompt this from my bed The lighting on the monitor head is actually insane if you look closely Made it with Seedance 2.0

@ItzQuk @lexx_aura No. He doesn't. The end justifies the means. He didn't have to compare himself to people who spent years honing their craft, and he didn't have to combatively and petulantly demean them. But he did, and he's proud of the misery he's highlighting. That's what he offers the world.

@lexx_aura Do you care about the environment? Do you know how harmful AI data centers are to the planet? They consume massive amounts of water and electricity-

@WyldeChyldeRec @taherdhanera This is an insane take. This reaches so far beyond the actual stakes and ethics of the issue, and it only does so out of a desperation to inflate the opposition to the status of some kind of evil--some devil on the wrong side of history. It's pathological.

Unpopular opinion: They'll fly their little bigotry flags for a while until people realize at scale that the anti-AI movement is...literally low-IQ bigotry, and will then have to abandon their bigotry-declaring logos out of outrage and the fear of being labeled a bigot. Later, people will remember and remind them of their past. They will lie and deny they ever did these things out of shame. 🫤

@taherdhanera You're willfully stopping the logic short, before it starts to deny the point you're trying to make. The difference, when you actually think about it longer than a quippy second, is that things like Photoshop and CG still require the intuitive application of design principles.

@Omerfar65647131 @lexx_aura The irony of calling anti-AI artists "lazy" couldn't possibly be lost on you, could it? You couldn't possibly have stopped that short processing what it was you were about to say.

@lexx_aura The anti ai crowd is the bunch of people who don't want to adapt. Too lazy and just blame Ai taking their jobs.

Still waiting for the anti AI crowd to explain how this doesn't have more heart and cinematic vision than a $200M Marvel movie Seedance 2.0

@thomaschattwill I haven't seen it, so I don't know how good it is, but I don't know if this is the best defense. Look at Animal Farm. The question is whether or not it's the actual story in more than name. Granted, it's Nolan and I'd wager it is, but as a standalone defense...

On the upside, the best living filmmaker is bringing Homer to the contemporary masses. Seems like a good thing.

@AndersNormandy @JoshDaws Yes, I can. With significantly less education that what I teach my university students. In a week, tops, and that's being generous. The limitation isn't with the education, it's with the technology itself, and that's growing rapidly.

@MisterParadigm @JoshDaws Go for it then. Write the great American novel with AI. Make the next great film. It’s effortless and the bot does the heavy lifting right? Hell, remake something that’s already real. Take a 3 minute short film and generate a competent rip off. You cant, and that’s point.

Writers dismissing AI prompting as low skill are saying that anyone with two brain cells can properly articulate their ideas in a way that allows others to visualize what they have imagined in their head. Isn’t that what writers do? Writing is low skill?

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@Alleyesonmela1 @MikhailaFuller You don't live in the Peterson house. Never did. And yet here you you are spouting your opinion about it. Not even that. You came here fully with the intention of directed, self-satisfying insult. You had nothing of value to add. You are not what you think you are.

The only reason anyone is even in your comment section or liking your posts is because of your father. You literally have nothing of value to add. It explains why you would even consider voting for Spencer. You don't live in LA, you never have, yet here you are spouting your opinion about the place. Typical idiot supporting another idiot.

Omg someone with a young family, whose house burned down, is in a hotel. Because they have no home. Because it burned down. Call the press.