James Cameron has Best Director locked. (this is a joke I’m mocking him)

It appears the current Speaker of the House had a supporting role in this film.

You’re gonna flip out when you hear about Harold and Maude.

I’m mocking the jobs line because it’s exactly the argument people parrot when billionaires want more tax breaks or Amazon’s building a new warehouse or a coal mine’s shutting down.

I should have been more specific. It's both legally and we can assume that the people doing either don't care about the ethics or don't view it as ethically wrong. So why wouldn’t they.

The difference is these AI tools create something that arguably has value in a similar to past works. Where as NFTs (I assume you mean the selling of art as opposed to the underlying technology) required people to continue to value something in a flooded market at higher and higher rates and didn’t give you any…

I have to wonder about how all these anti-AI machine learning people are going to react when one of these models cures cancer. Are they going to be sad about all the scientists who didn’t get to do it.

What is this magic “why” and again, because you didn’t answer the first time, why is it significant?

Reminder that Trump built his campaign in part on the notion of going back to digging coal mines.

Maybe we should be complaining about the lack of UBI instead of complaining that automation exists.

I’ll take something cheap over something I can’t afford.

The problem is that livelihoods of skilled workers depend on there being a skill barrier. Lowering those barriers for amateurs, also devalues the craft and threatens workers’ livelihoods.

Innovation costs people jobs!? What a shocker.  If we never let innovation take away people's jobs we'd all still be picking cotton and digging out coal mines with shovels.

So many people don’t understand what democratizing a media means. Democratizing a media means to make it usable by a wider audience. The camcorder democratized film making by making it accessible to the public. The internet democratized publishing by making it cheap & accessible. Flash democratized animation by making…

Society has throughout the history of automation shown that by and large we don’t really care about the human touch. Cheap and convenient become bigger priorities than getting something made by hand. There’s always going to be a market for things made with more care and attention than a machine can manage. But it’ll…

“Animation is one of those jobs where you accept a much lower salary than you could make elsewhere, because you get to do what you love.”

Kotaku articles have been fiery hot takes since 2019-ish. It really bugs me, it used to be my favourite news site, now I barely visit it. 

Nuance has increasingly fled this site. Rage-bait is profitable on the short term, so that’s what we get.

Anyone can feel free to ignore new tools. Existing methods of doing things will still exist, but be increasingly supported by new approaches. I feel like the art community doesn’t like how the training occurs, or that you can ask for art in their style without them creating it. Both of these are valid concerns and…

Overtly defining AI-generated images as “plagiarism” seems like a slippery slope that could lead to any art provably influenced by another person’s art as plagiarism. Yes, I get that the AI systems are literally TAKING- often against the will of the original artist- pieces of work and processing them to make it’s…