Oh, I love the “James Bond is a codename” idea, even if, yeah, the text contradicts it - in addition to what you mentionne, in a A View to a Kill, Moneypenny directly refers to the fact that she’s much older than she was when Bond and her started working together, and in License to Kill, Felix Leiter refers to Bond…

I’m just gonna add that it sucks to see so many people on here both defending and advocating the use of what is basically a techbro scam. Lost a lot of respect for io9 today and reminded why I spend so much time away from it now.

I think Zitron is on to something there. It’s like trying to get blood from a stone, but there’s not even a stone left to squeeze. Jesus, I even forgot about the “metaverse.” Just scam after scam to try and drum up something, anything, that can snag some sweet sweet venture coin.

Wholeheartedly agree. The impatience of greed and the absence of any long-term planning has scuttled nearly all of DC’s attempts to appeal to its core audience, much less attract those unfamiliar by creating a franchise that feels carefully and lovingly curated.

My guess is that they will follow the example of M in Casino Royale: just keep the actress every loves in the role, who cares if it’s a reboot, only hardcore nerds who can’t accept any non-diegetic explanation will be upset.*

But the AI didn’t create sequenve on its own, unprompted, right? Unless they are lying (which is possible), there was a creative decision made to use AI, in order to get a very specific result. They even say a team tweaked the AI output to get exactly the result they wanted.

I think that’s part of why seeing stuff like this get trotted out makes me so angry. It’s devoid of any humanity and doesn’t actually put up with the slightest bit of scrutiny, but it of course has its defenders. People who only care about that surface level sheen that doesn’t even look good or read well.

“Some guy who clicks his mouse 12 times in Adobe...”

They are (at least the director is so far) and more than a few people (even on here) are already lapping it up and parroting the excuse. This all sucks to see happen.

Bingo. It also sets a VERY bad precedent for future projects. I knew the defense of “it’s supposed to be that way!” would come out from the fanboys, but it still sucks to see. Hopefully the AI craze the crypto bros are pushing will crash just like the crypto and NFT garbage here soon.

I’m pretty sure corporate has been helping propel the rise of AI: media op-eds dick-riding on the “innovation” and “convenience” of new tech but overlook the bad is a tale as old as time. It’s like my late grandfather said, “The country is run by snake oil salesmen!”

Corporate will always take any opportunity or…

I suppose some executive at Marvel Studios will try to spin this as “The AI-generated intro sequence fits the show’s theme of inhuman invaders with bad intentions trying to impersonate the good guys”... but even if the move fits in with the show thematically, it’s still shitty. You’re still taking away a paycheck from…

Ah, yes. Tell us you have no idea what working on creative projects implies without telling us you have no idea what working on creative projects implies.

Artists don’t “steal” in the same way as AI. Artists are creative entities and them making the choice to sample someone else or to just be inspired by the works of another artist are their creative choices (and we have laws about what can and can’t be used in this way). AIs are not creative, you’re just throwing real…

Another side of the problem is that we don’t know how the AI in question was trained - usually they take in a lot of human-created art in order to be able to function at all and most of that is dubiously obtained. So while I get what you’re saying that “it’s ok because they wanted that AI look, it’s silly to pay…

They’re using an AI generator here because the characteristic fucked-up way that it tends to render human subjects is artistically appropriate to the themes of the show.

I work for a creative agency that has clients in entertainment (video games primarily but also sports and some movie).

Clients have pressed us on how we’re going to incorporate AI into the creative pipeline and why, when other agencies are using it, we have not. The role of AI in the future of our business is a…

Nope, it was an iPhone Ape.

Mega Ape looks like it was filmed with an iPhone 6.