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how it feels to make money while unemployed

🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 12 hours? > A CEO of a $200 billion company said on camera that 35% of new grads won't find jobs. He didn't even flinch saying it. > Meta made $165 billion last year and is still firing 15,000 people because apparently record profit isn't profitable enough. > Some random guy in Florida sold his entire house in 5 days using ChatGPT. No real estate agent, no commission, no experience. Just vibes and a $20 subscription. > A man in Australia cured his dying dog's cancer with AI after every single vet told him there was nothing left to do. Built a custom vaccine from his couch. > The guy who created Uber and left 300,000 taxi drivers broke is back. Building robots now because apparently ruining one industry wasn't enough. > Tinder wants access to your camera roll. Your drunk photos, your 3am notes app meltdowns, your deleted selfies. They're calling it a "vibe check." > Naval, the man who made hundreds of millions investing in software, just said software is dead. Four words and the entire industry felt it. > And Anthropic removed the limit on how long their AI can think and then doubled everyone's usage for free. Because when the product is addictive enough you give the first taste away. All of that happened today. Not this week, not this quarter. Today. A random Saturday in March. This is worse than you being on meth.

I still haven't moved on from this🫠

If you are a successful filmmaker or VFX artist spending your day shitting on AI users or Ai-generated content, I can’t say for sure what is going through your mind, but from the outside it looks like you feel threatened. Also if you are an AI user saying dumb shit like “VFX/Hollywood is dead,” I can’t say for sure what’s going through your mind, but from the outside, it looks like… not much. Yes, AI is here and it not going away. But the marketing teams behind this tech want you to believe it’s something it is not. They don’t want you to know that the more experience you have with traditional filmmaking methods, the better the results from the AI tools you will get. The hard truth is that the people who understand things like lighting, composition, animation, compositing, color theory, VFX, cameras, lenses, and blocking, have a vast advantage when using these tools - but that would never sell products to the masses. They need you to believe that you can easily replace talent and experience with the simple desire to create - and that’s just stupid.