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@pietrozullo @antirez You say that but you don’t actually want it. The prompt isn’t for me, it’s so you can live in the “heckin’ ordered universe” where I don’t say your question is stupid, your meeting is an agenda for the lazy, and that I have no patience for you. The output is for your emotions.

@antirez “If you’re going to use an LLM to write me an email, I’d much rather you just send me the prompt; at least then I’d have an idea of what you actually meant to say.” great quote and article

Sorry if I post this again, but: this is the best post about AI slop you are going to read in the next 2 years.

@mjarbo Matt, these are your people though. The AI use thing is along ideological lines. So why are you surprised the horrible people that like to bully others for wrong think have once again bullied someone for wrong think.

Jorge Gutiérrez has dropped out of Amazon’s GenAI animation program and will no longer make Punky Duck. Wonderful job, Animation Twitter. The director of The Book of Life and creator of Maya and the Three wanted to experiment with AI as a tool to help artists create animation faster. He was very clear that artists were still at the center of the project. But instead of waiting to see what he was actually making, people immediately decided he was a sellout. His Wikipedia page was vandalized. He was harassed. Things apparently got ugly enough that he had to publicly warn people not to threaten his wife or son. Then, two days after the project was announced, he walked away from it. I understand why animators are nervous about AI. I understand why people do not trust Amazon. But going after Jorge Gutiérrez like he was personally trying to destroy animation is pathetic. The guy was trying to make an original animated series and figure out whether new technology could help artists get ambitious work made faster. Now the project is dead before anyone even saw a frame of it. This is what happens when people let an angry mob tell them how to feel before they bother thinking for themselves. They did not protect animation. They just bullied an animator out of making something new.

@lordnarfz0g He needs to “choose peptides”

@olivercampbell @MrBCWalker This is really great - I’ve been following you for years, had no idea you had such artistic talent!

Here's a story about this: I opened my art store in January. Every black person I know, had nothing positive to say to me EXCEPT for my 70 year old aunt. Every other one complained: "Where's the black romance" "Where's the black people" Never lead with a compliment, or a 'good job on starting your own thing' or a 'not my taste but go get your money.' Nothing nice. BUT here's how the conversation with my aunt went: Her: "Oliver this is really good. I'm really proud of you. Could you make something for me?' Me: "Yes ma'am." Her: "If it's not too much trouble, I'd like something African, I'm not really sure what." Me: "Well, let's talk it out. You're asking for something, this is what I do." Her: "You're sure it's not going to take up too much of your time?" Me: "No ma'am, I have the time." Her: "Well, maybe something like an African woman in Africa, I'm not sure what." Me: "Well, if you want to capture that idea... how about an African woman walking across the savannah. Take a look at this" *30 minutes of iterations later* Her: "That's amazing!" Me: "No problem. So this is printed on museum archival paper, and I can pre-frame it for you too. With authentic African wood." Her: "You can? With real wood?" Me: "Yes ma'am. There's no hassle for you, it can just go straight up on the wall. All the wall hanging stuff is pre-installed." I finish up the details, make the listing, she buys it in 10 minutes. And then she commissioned a separate piece a week or so later when that arrived. I only charged her the cost of materials. Why? Because she's the only black woman that loves me and gives me any kind of encouragement. My mom doesn't give a single flying fuck. But every time my Aunt comes up from Florida she ALWAYS stops to see me and to see how my son is growing and she's always just... happy for me to be. Nothing more, nothing less. That's why I ALWAYS address her as ma'am. Attached below is what she commissioned and was the final product. All because she bothered to admire my work and wasn't rude to me.

@forthrighter @QiaochuYuan I think you might be right. Once detectors get coded as performative millennial anxiety it’ll be labeled cringe and die.

@QiaochuYuan this will become moot. Gen Z/Gen Alpha will invent LLM-adjacent slang/speech to be meta-ironic and AI detectors will end up looking culturally foolish and we'll forget about the whole thing. The more people are worried about incorrect ID the more others will provoke it

the problem with people who are "against AI detectors" (i cannot believe this is already getting politicized) is some of them are worried their human text will be incorrectly identified as AI and some of them are worried their AI text will be correctly identified as AI

@fabglitch @DougTenNapel Do I use ai to help me structure and draft my ideas and retool the output using my taste as a reader, or do I sink 7 years into learning how to write — which may or may not actually get me to anywhere good — just to talk about the ideas I have now. It’s a no brainer imo

@DougTenNapel There's writing, and there's the ~Art of Writing~ AI is feared by established artists and artisans because they loathe having to compete with folks who didn't have to suffer for their craft. Opposition to emerging mediums/tools is anti-creative, ignorant, protectist, & elitist.

When people told me they dreamed of writing a book I would ask “then why haven’t you?” Writing is accessible to nearly anyone for free so you don’t need Ai to write the great American novel. But when animators said they wanted to tell stories I knew the labor was generally too costly and not accessible to most of them. Ai will make animation as accessible as writing a book. When a tool opens up storytelling options to us it helps creation. Anything that removes excuses is a pretty good thing. Ai will help the best story win, not the people with the most connections, money or luck.

@SomeAsianD @sergusster @MatterCg “No dude, real art needs animators. We need like a legion of Korean art slaves to do the digital compositing work, not a machine.”

@sergusster @MatterCg AI isnt art, its slop

i wasn't aware how easy some of the new #vfx workflows are - interesting and underwhelming at the same time (audio on)

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

@evakoiani @Mohamed7adel4 @MastarMedia On Twitter it is. If you’re going to level some inane bullshit yes. Are you conceding you were talking nonsense? Dude if you’re not trolling at this point you’re a lost cause.

@ripecortex @Mohamed7adel4 @MastarMedia 'Jeez youre stupid af'. What? You're saying it's ok to be rude when you think the person is talking nonsense

In my career, I've spent over $100,000 commissioning artists and animators. I held a fundraiser for animators in Japan. I've given graphic tablets to artists in need. I promote young animators that I think are talented without asking for anything in return. I created an original series (Demon Rush), with 15 manga chapters and 2 animated promo episodes- all original art and animation. Spent 4 years on it, but was not recognized for doing it the true hard way. In my latest video, I hired 3 animators and paid them well for their cuts. People on X are upset that I used AI to speed up the process in the fan animation, even though in the 4 update videos leading up to it, I was completely open about how I was using it. The same people who complained about Saitama vs Cosmic Garou having too many impact frames for their liking. I don't care about these people. They complain about literally everything. I make these for fun, not to impress anyone. Even if I spent 10 years making the best episode possible, 100% hand done, these guys would still complain. I did that before with Demon Rush. In any case, this was my last animated video. I am retiring from anime and moving onto other things, so you won't have to worry about me.

@evakoiani @Mohamed7adel4 @MastarMedia You had the option to lead with your strongest well articulated argument; what you did was lead with some nonsense about people dying because he used a tool you don’t like. So come’on, the fuck off was warranted.

@evakoiani @Mohamed7adel4 @MastarMedia You should be able to concisely state a position without me digging through your back catalog, especially when you make the accusation. If you’re unable, maybe a machine can help you not argue from emotion like a child does.

@evakoiani @MastarMedia What are the damages? Show me the harm, not some bullshit you invent. “Hypothetical jobs with hypothetical money wasn’t offered” - no one is entitled to his money, fuck off.

"I spent my whole life being civil and working on my job but was not recognized for doing it the true hard way, so I warned everyone in 4 different videos and then killed and robbed 43 people" thanks for helping artists. But its not justifying ai usage in any way You are privileged to have money, talents, time, and audience. Everything basically. Many young creators with their stories don't have that but still manage to create popular gems. If your animated trailers for demon rush perform poorly, then problem is with quality of your work, lack of direction and interest in your story.

@WAVArchive @TheQuQu “De-lighted to, sir.”

Terran One – Glenn Stafford, from StarCraft (PC, 1998)

@dndubrbx @GabeHoff California raisin

@GabeHoff What the fuck is his body type.

Ethan Ralph bans Scarlett Hampton from chat, calls her a bunch of slurs, then threatens to have a news story published about the former adult-film actress and current prostitute's recent Nazi arc.

The “what is AI writing” is the current Rorschach test of what someone privileges as good writing without saying the contrast is “bad” writing. “It can be good but it’s overdone” well that means it’s bad.

@curtis_yarvin This may explain why I find reading human lit semi painful now - like mass market paperback stuff. I’ve reworked part of my brain to expect optimal prose construction and if it doesn’t glide that easily there’s cognitive resistance

The feel of AI prose is the feel of superoptimized prose. It uses all the punchiest tropes, all the time, whenever it can. It’s not this—it’s that. That’s why even us dumb breathers can recognize it instantly

@AdmAstonishing @ABAOProductions What if I generate a bunch of assets and collage them in photoshop. Compared to taking a bunch of other assets and collage them in photoshop. Which one is and which isn’t art.

@ABAOProductions Not on their own, no. But unlike AI, you CAN create with them.

Correct. Neither is 3D software or a pencil. Well said.

@IsThisA3DModel @UltraTerm If instead of a machine I chose to draw it, and if we didn’t align, does that imply one of us isn’t an artist? This has to be the most bullshit argument I’ve seen you anti AI is art people trot out. Which, kudos on that I suppose.

@UltraTerm well we can prove my point pretty easily. I have an image of a dog in my head. Just the head from a 3/4 view. It has rounded ears, a long tapered snout and beady eyes. I will draw my version. You draw the same dog. Lets see what comes closer to the image I'm thinking of

Hypothesis: There is a direct correlation between Anti-Ai sentiment and the inability to visualize things in the mind. It's common to see Anti-Ai people aggressively dismiss the idea that creating visual art is primarily about communicating an internal vision held by the artist. They will sometimes say things such as "the real art is the technical skill to create something" and that "the idea" is virtually worthless, often accusing people of being useless "ideas guys." In reality, the artist's vision is the most important and crucial part of both the creative process and the final artistic expression that others interact with. Without it, the expression devolves to nothing more than a showcase of craft and technical skill, such as a demonstration of the ability to draw straight lines, hold a paintbrush correctly, fret a chord, or operate a camera using an appropriate shutter speed. Art is about communication. It's about the artist transmitting their internal vision, audiation, and emotions to others via some medium. Anyone who does not understand that does not understand what art is. Expressions of craft and technical skill alone are not artwork, they are the means by which artwork can be manifested. This reality can best be seen at the level of the director, such as Hideo Kojima; someone who directs teams of craftsmen and other artists to create a large scale multimedia art piece that's intended to primarily reflect their inner vision. In the right hands, creative Ai tools can be used to manifest an artist's vision extremely effectively, including in ways that weren't possible before the tools existed. For people that can't visualize things in the mind due to physical lack of ability, the above is a completely alien concept. It's unknown to them because the capability is missing from their nervous system. Trying to explain to them what it's like to be able to hear and see entire worlds in your mind would be similar to trying to explain colors to someone who has never seen them before. You can try, but ultimately you can't transmit the experience to them. They're not capable of expressing visual artwork from within themselves, because they have nothing internally to express. At best they can develop the technical craft of expression, which they have come to mistake as "art." So that is why they become confused (and aggressive) when they're exposed to the idea that creative Ai software is just another set of tools in an emerging craft used for artistic expression. They can't see the apple.

@SuitJanitor @DayDreamHetero The real Chris Chan still outproduces Evan in androgens.

@DayDreamHetero I thought Chris Chan got a lobotomy and started a new life as that Evan loves worf guy

Asking both her and the Joe Rogan fan line cook she’s condescending to if Chris Chan is a woman to find out who really is High Human Capital.

@UltraTerm I’ve been circling this position, about tool assistance for disability, but I think you nailed the lever on it: we have to get this in a court.

Steam's mandatory Ai use disclosure policy may be illegal. For many people, Ai tools are an assistive device that helps them compensate for some kind of disability. Turns out it's illegal in the USA to force disabled people to disclose the use of assistive technology.