Honestly the fact that he thinks working at a startup is a good thing is telling.   

I mean, I’ll watch it just for Gillian Anderson in a bonnet and rug-dress.

You forgot to mention the Twitter Space that Hotz hosted yesterday, where Musk naively called for a “total rewrite” of the whole twitter stack, and then received well deserved pushback from an actual engineer:

Ever since that scene, I can’t stop noticing where the horizon is in every movie I watch.

You’ve described like every classical musical ever made. There isn’t a single Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire movie that has a substantial story, not one. Which isn’t to say Gosling or Stone are the Ginger and Fred of the ‘10s, but I really don’t remember anyone calling it *important*, but there was a lot of buzz around it…

That landscape shot looks like a scene from Speed Racer.

The argument is more comparable to Napster/internet downloading v. The music industry than it is to progress v. Luddites.

Was Peacemaker this year or end of 2021? Because if it was this year and you didn’t put John Cena playing Home Sweet home on a piano.... no wonder this site is shit now.

TL/DR: Go make a god damn collage. Make something you dare not show, something that makes you timid, uneasy, afraid to show to your family, your friends. Something so intimate you barely can look at it yourself. If you have the same opinion after that, then I simply don’t understand you at all. I’d say you hate…

why is it only seemingly visual artists getting hot and bothered by this stuff?

Bro, the problem isn’t that AI exists, it’s that all of the models people are using to generate “art” were made by stealing art without the artists’ permission.  It’s one of the largest-scale cases of copyright infringement I’ve ever seen.  Frequently, generated art even still has artist signatures or stamps embedded…

Go differently, perhaps. But AI art has been influenced and even propped up by the same people shilling for NFTs; the same ones all for stealing art and calling it their own for different means. One thing they have in common is the absolute disdain, antipathy, and envy towards people who have a passion for drawing,…

Even accepting the underlying assumption of your argument (that algorithmically generated art will occupy a central place for... artists, which remains to be seen), that says absolutely nothing about how it’s presented, rolled out and used.

It’s honestly hysterical. This was such an easy PR win for them, a slam dunk with almost zero effort on their part. Not only did they miss the layup, they hurled the ball into the stands, then dropped their pants and pissed on the crowd.

Funny, I remember a year ago hearing the exact same thing about NFTs.

Jesus christ, this is the easiest thing in the world to not fuck up and it feels like every company is hell-bent on making the worst possible decisions in any given moment.

When it was announced that they were spending $1.5 billion on a bunch of Avatar sequels, I, like a lot of people, chuckled, thought, “well, that seems like a miscalculation,” made a few jokes, and went on with my day. But the number of people who seem weirdly, personally invested in its failure have become far more…

It’s really amazing how much this review triggers you, having not seen the film, or having any intention of seeing the film

“Everyone treating this film as though it’s a contemporary of films like The Fabelmans and Tar”