• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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      23 days ago

      True, I suppose it already has permanently decreased the quality of life of CGI artists because their labor will now always be judged as a more costly alternative to AI that doesn’t actually work but still serves as a good bargaining chip against employees in negotiations.

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        Hopefully we’ll see a shift towards people that gets displaced from these big studios banding together and forming their own independent studios. This has happened quite a bit in the games industry, which is undergoing a similar shift. As long as people keep pushing back against AI-created content and favor human-created things, at least; if that public opinion shifts, we’re just fucked.

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          23 days ago

          Yeah but what makes me sad is that smaller independent studios cannot maintain an industry of artists alone and thus the gaming and movie world is going to exit the golden age we have been in.

          There needs to be large, boring more “institutional” companies making large movie or game projects to provide the capacity for entry level jobs at scale, to provide more stable places for an artist to work while raising a family or to provide a stepping stone in employment between more meaningful jobs at smaller more focused companies.

          I love Indie Games, I love smaller art projects of all kinds, but my point is the labor market is broken in these industries and it can lead to nowhere else than collapse of the industry.

          This is a perfect example of the myth that capitalism is efficient, it can be seen here clearly that it leads directly to a periodic shattering of industries leaving only a couple of massive companies to buy up the entire landscape and consolidate control over the industry after the cataclysm.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

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        23 days ago

        Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?

        It’s like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.

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          The difference between a human artist working with digital media vs analog media is a difference in materials.

          The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

          You can use anything to make art, AI techbros didnt prove that, my point is AI is a shitty self-defeating tool that hides the theft of our public commons of shared art made by humans behind a bunch of bullshit technobabble.

          edit Also yeah CGI did make movies a lot lamer in some ways…? Do you know nothing about movies? Have you not lamented with others how you miss the prevalence of Live Action films and Practical Effects because now film makers almost always take the easy boring route out with CGI that misses the point of film in the first place?

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            The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

            If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.

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              If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.

              What an awful, cynical way to look at reality.

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                23 days ago

                You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:

                AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

                These are your words.

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      We didn’t need AI for the Hollywood slop. It’s already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).