I mean, regardless of your thoughts on either side of the conflict, restreaming war footage at all is a bad look, and reacting to it for entertainment value pushes that low even lower. It’s not the reactions themselves, just the... like... total lack of respect for the death and destruction on display.

He’s “reacting” to it like it’s some random tiktok video BS - as opposed to watching a mass genocide taking place. He is de-humanzing an atrocity against civilians, turning it into “entertainment” and being flippant about it.

He’s streaming his reaction to war footage which in turn, he gets paid for.

Why do AI chuds keep trying to champion AI takeover of arts and humanities instead of, IDK, repetitive manual labor and middle management jobs, so people can be free to pursue art and continue being orders of magnitude better at it than AI?

Right, it couldn’t possibly be that the tech provides an avenue for increasing amounts of lazy, mediocre trash to be pumped into the system or for lazy hacks who couldn’t be bothered with all that pesky ‘practice’ and ‘learning’ and ‘study’ to actually learn how to draw or write as opposed to fine-tuning a prompt for…

AI ‘art’ is trash and so are the people who support it.  Short pier, long walk; you have your assignment, get to it.

I’m a 35 year old software engineer.

I call this the Neckbeard Fallacy: When someone predicts what we may have tomorrow will solve the problems we have today, so they win the argument! Zing!

I see people try to make AI images and photoshop them into something coherent but it always looks to me like they built a robot, put a wig on it, and called it alive.

Fucking amen. There’s a YouTube channel that promotes itself as the official Zulu channel that uploads clips that have been upscaled and soap-opera’d to 60FPS and I think that if you guys have room in the Tower of London the BFI needs to confine there on bread and water.

The original title of this video was “We Fixed Faces in Video Games.” A few hours later they changed it to “We try Fixing Faces in Video Games,” then a few hours after that they seemed to have concluded it was the “Fix” in the title that was upsetting people.

Tech dude here. I can’t make art and can’t wrap my head around the need to make art. I do not have that innate compulsion to create something with nothing but a vision and anything that I do create when I try comes out dry and soulless. That lack of understanding inherently makes me appreciate art and artist for the…

They don’t have any AI tech. Half of it is literally open source stuff. They are just using other people’s tools.

Because they’re not artists. They’re tech dudes who think they can take something squishy and messy like art and recreate it with cold engineering. They don’t actually understand what art is, why people make it, or why people appreciate it.

Do you actually not understand the difference or are you being contrarian?

Those aren’t “upscaled”, they’re changed/generated. They’re new faces. (and they’re almost uniformly terrible. I mean, holy crap, those three samples in the middle of the article are awful.)

I mean youtube has a huge audience of people who ruin things because they’re morons. Look at all those wankers “upscaling” film and animation to 60FPS because they have terminal gamer brain and treat a high frame rate as some kind of inherent moral good.

“Look I improved this movie by adding 400% more smear look how smo…

Why do all the AI dudes have the artistic understanding of a literal child.

Their Aloy is wild because she has less facial features than the original. Its like they put excessive foundation on her. 

I stopped watching them somewhere around 2021 when their videos where they “fixed” things from movies started looking universally worse in my opinion, and I started getting the impression that they were no longer really thinking critically about what they were doing, and were spending much more time just patting each…