Reid Southen

I figured I'd post a little bit of my Matrix Resurrections work here. These were done under the production design of Hugh Bateup and Peter Walpole, and the direction of Lana Wachowski. These are some designs from IO, including Niobe's keep and the Morpheus shrine. Hope you enjoy!

@vikare06 @yuungsheldon And yet.

@Rahll @yuungsheldon if you increase contrast only in L channel it won't touch chroma

Things don't need to look this way

@Hypermanforever @AverageG4merYT Fine tuning a foundational model doesn't magically make it not exploitation.

@Rahll @AverageG4merYT You can train a model on a data set of like 20 images for a specific task you are fighting air, get over it

"Well, now you can prompt something and get a result. And I don’t have any problem with that. When it becomes exploitative and people are not remunerated for the work that they’ve done..." If it's generating, it's exploiting, end of story. Whose work do you think powers it?

@AverageG4merYT Lmao, you mean fine tuned foundational models? Also, open source doesn't mean exploitation free. Be serious.

@Rahll Most studio AI are locally running things like GWEN, nemotron3, kimi, Gemma etc with local libraries trained off of the work of the artists using them. When it comes to things like textures, foliage, & concept art that consumers dont appreciate or notice its saves thousands of hr

A huge new class action lawsuit has been filed by big publishers and authors against Google over AI training. It opens: "Desperate to maintain its online dominance, Google abandoned its early motto of 'Don’t be evil' and engaged in one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history." It alleges that Google: - took millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly used them to train LLMs - had internal discussions where they flagged that using books publishers had provided them for other purposes was "highly problematic for Google" and could lead to "$10Bs-$100Bs in potential fines" - also trained on works from pirate sites & from behind paywalls - used all this to build an AI system that competes with the works Google copied

@HarryHa42285349 @NicholeDelly I don't think you know anything about how film works.

@NicholeDelly This sounds like an issue that should have been dealt with years ago, maybe with a "revolver" style reload for film Nolan could have invented a new camera for this 35mm film instead of stopping everything to change

Matt Damon reveals actors have to suddenly freeze in the middle of scenes when filming entirely in IMAX "A regular roll of 35mm film takes about 11 minutes per magazine." "IMAX... this goes through in two and a half minutes." "If you're doing a scene that lasts more than two and a half minutes, you have to stop in the middle and freeze." "They reload the camera, which takes about five minutes." "Then we'd go back a few lines and pick the scene up."

@vikare06 @yuungsheldon Well, let me be the first to tell you that unless taking steps to mitigate it, adjusting the contrast will also boost chroma, which is effectively adding color. Adjusting the tint is also messing with the color. It's fine if you don't like the grade, but come on, lol.

@yuungsheldon i didn't add any color, just increased contrast and moved the tint to look more like a late 90s period piece

@AverageG4merYT Enlighten me.

@Rahll You dont understand the many many generative uses that dont "steal" anything.... its ok. Andy's hat is awesome tho!

@outsource_ Indistinguishable from a shitpost.

How to build a AAA MMO map in 2026: Tell Claude Fable to do it. 15 km². 19k objects. 22k materials. Built into our game while I slept. HermesWorld just got 10x bigger.

@EddCoates Did you read the his nonstop commentary on that post? Dude seems manic.

Poor guy. Imagine the state he’d be in if he actually had to do the work himself instead of getting Claude to do it all for him.

If she can't actually drive - she can't actually supervise. People have literally died because of @Tesla tweets like this.

@seanward Lol, called it.

@Rahll Bro I'm flattered and I know being in my mentions makes you feel like we have a bond, but it's not real.

We have exited the era of permission to an era of pure execution. For 100 years, making a cinematic film meant convincing a room full of executives that your vision was worth their capital. You had to compromise your taste to secure the budget. Generative AI hasn't just lowered the cost of production; it has completely destroyed the permission bottleneck. When you don't need their money, you don't need their approval. The velvet rope is gone.

The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its contract with Flock cameras over civil liberties and civil rights concerns. Officials have confirmed that these cameras collect data on Americans. The contract is set to expire and will not be renewed.

@AIandDesign LOL. You'd need minimum 3 roommates.

Good luck living on this in San Francisco.

20 Minutes >>> 20 Hours

🦔Cloudflare will begin blocking AI training crawlers by default across millions of websites on September 15, 2026. Patreon is the anchor partner, blocking crawlers at the network level across its entire platform. Cloudflare is also testing a Pay Per Answer model with early partners, where publishers get paid when their content appears inside an AI-generated response, not just when a bot crawls the page. My Take Robots.txt was always a polite request and AI companies ignored it at scale while courts moved slowly. I think this is genuinely different. Cloudflare sits in front of roughly 20% of all websites. Enforcement at that layer is not something an AI lab can quietly route around the way they did with robots.txt. I am more interested in Pay Per Answer than the block itself, honestly. Pay Per Crawl paid publishers for data access. Pay Per Answer pays them when their content shows up in a response, which is where the actual money is. That is a smarter place to put the toll. My uncertainty is whether it sticks. AI companies can claim to be search bots, lean harder into synthetic data, or just wait for the legal picture to clarify. What gives me some confidence that this has teeth is that long-form human writing and niche expertise are exactly what makes AI output worth using. Generic synthetic training data produces generic output. If enough of the good stuff moves behind a paywall, the product quality problem becomes the AI companies' problem too. That alignment of incentives did not exist before, and I think it matters. Hedgie🤗

they have to force AI on users because if they give people the option they're gonna turn it off and the whole scam goes up in smoke

@MlechhaLaundry @ZacksJerryRig This is gonna blow your mind, but you can set up your own security cameras on your property. Wild, I know.

@ZacksJerryRig Isn't it good that you have one near your house for your safety and your family's?

A flock camera just got put up across the street from my house. Anybody wanna see a teardown?

@ZeframM No, camera phones have not always invented details.

@Rahll It's been that way forever. You can only push the optical physics of a tiny lens so far

It's insufferable how companies have been integrating AI into their phone camera apps.