The law would also apply to boner pills, prostate medication, sex toys, and porn. Can we start a federal ban on those as well?

I believe that’s what Gandhi said shortly before launching the nukes.

Better they are planning a legal defense for their inaction than planning a funeral for their child.

So, their doctor told them that the baby needed medical care and that he was required to report the situation to CPS if they denied their newborn that care, and they ignored that doctor and took the advice of their midwife instead. Their pediatrician has cared for their other two kids, so the doc is not an untrusted…

While I’m sympathetic to your general sentiment, as a professional photographer for the past 17 years or so I can confirm that there still are entry and midlevel photography jobs.

Your last point is beginning to fade, tho. Some studios are beginning to use live CGI scenes for their productions instead of green screens.

There is no easy solution. The best you can do is to try and change things for the better from the inside, or, if you don’t like where you work, move to a company that doesn’t treat you like shit.

I’m not saying there’s no exploitation. In particular, people with less experience, or in a bad situation with less options, tend to be exploited the most. However, if you work for the right company, generally you will get to choose how hard you work, and, depending where in the world you work, you will be generously…

Actors having to try to portray nearly every simple scene alone in front of a green screen, and having no connection to the setting or their fellow cast members.

You said it was because it was cheaper to to pay a graphics sweatshop to add in a gun than it is to pay a unionized prop manager (which on its face doesn’t make any sense; they absolutely had to have a unionized prop manager on set or the unions for the other departments wouldn’t have let the scene be shot), but the…

Say what now? No, that wasn’t even the subtext of the comment. Many wailed about CGI being the death knell for visual effects artists, but it wasn’t. That’s the whole point. There’s no subtext that the current setup is particularly good or non-exploitative or anything. It’s simply an acknowledgement that visual…

Prior to the cellphone it was a reasonable career path to be a photographer for a media outlet or for stock photos. Now, the only real career path is wedding photographer it high end fashion/media photographer. All of the entry and mid level photography positions are gone.

This! It’s the normal outcome of automation. The problem isn’t AI, the problem is that we don’t have UBI. If we’d take the productivity gain for the next 10-20 years and share it as UBI, all the concerns that would be left are actually AI specific in the vein of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s warnings about AI killing us. The AI…

No, I’m not. I’ve worked in VFX for nearly 16 years now, all across the globe. It is a tough industry, and it’s changing pretty rapidly right now, but I still enjoy what I do. It’s a 50/50 split of exciting challenges and repetitive busy-work.

So many little stupid things get CGI’d, like having an actor hold a stick and then CGIing in a gun later because it’s cheaper to pay a graphics sweatshop to add in a gun than it is to pay a unionized prop manager.

You’re not wrong, but you aren’t right either. Since when have productivity gains not resulted in the owners of companies cutting cost by reducing the workforce? In the past this sort of worked out as people could go into other careers (big asterisk) but with AI that may not be an option anymore.

Big asterisk: This is…

After the Alec Baldwin incident, I’m 100% fine with something like a gun being digitally inserted after the fact. You’re right to point out that CGI is overused to a ridiculous extent these days, which to me just makes it even more ridiculous that the GUN is the thing they insisted on being a real on-set weapon. Like,…

> The same thing is happening to art so the question is, what do we do with all of these artists who are out of jobs?

What did we do to horse breeders, trainers, etc when the automobile was invented? What is the lternative? Ban jobs so horse breeders can still make ends meet?

If technology makes your job outdated, then…

Because using prop weapons went so well for Alec Baldwin. Do a little research. 

Your opinion is quite ignorant. It has not done “massive damage” to the “moviemaking industry.” It has created a large creative industry filled with people that are passionate about what they do. It has given directors and studios a near limitless ability to create whatever they can imagine.