If the shoe fits. 

You’re talking about prompts. I’m talking about subjects or influences that the creators have a deep personal stake in, whether emotional, psychological, or intellectual. The AI is simply producing the result it has been programmed to generate. It’s like the ChatGPT programs being asked to “write” scientific papers…

On the flipside, though, the people pushing this technology are the same people that swore NFTs were going to lead to a revolution.

Because using past artists for inspiration isn’t what this AI is doing. It’s outputting averaged data based on data that was input into the system. There’s a direct connection between the art that was used to teach the system and the output of the system because AI isn’t advanced enough to have epiphanies or make…

Obviously they fed it direct prompts (like Samuel Jackson’s face) and there was probably a lot of tweaking to make it look consistent. But it doesn’t really look designed the way most title sequences do. Pixar uses a lot of automation for particles and other textures like hair and fibers, but there are people who do…

The tech writer Ed Zitron has suggested that Silicon Valley culture (which also means venture capital culture) has stagnated over the last decade and can no longer create services or products that people actually enjoy using, like iPods or search engines that show you the results you actually want. Tech bros can no…

It had to be Disney. All they seem to care about is profit, so this won’t be the last time we see this happen.

it’s just a complex process that, evidently, we don’t even need to fully understand to emulate.

Absolutely “dubiously obtained”. These artists weren’t compensated for the use of their art that in turn was used by these companies to train AI to eventually turn a profit. Without this art, the AI wouldn’t be able to generate anything, so even if the art isn’t intended to “duplicate” the original works, it still…

When artists sample for commercial gain, they have to provide credit to the original work and financial compensation where appropriate.  AI trainers don’t do that, so it’s outright theft.

Yeah, but if a writer chooses to allude to someone else’s work in a story, it’s because that source material meant something to them. And the writer is assuming that their readers might recognize the allusion, and if it meant something to them it will deepen the connection with the writer.

It’s pretty clear that AI looks like good writing or art to people who have no idea what the fuck good writing or art is supposed to look like. I always think of the AI prompt that was told to write a paragraph in the style of William Gibson; it produced prose that was full of the most generic “noir” imagery, lots of…

The original scrawl for the original Star Wars had at least one guy manually cranking the text over top of the overhead projector while another guy filmed it, and one guy created the starfield and another guy composited it using special equipment.

The funny thing is that now apparently AI art prompts are feeding increasingly off AI-generated imagery, so the results are becoming more aesthetically inbred over time. At some point it will be much easier to spot AI imagery, simply because it’ll have that look to it. The Secret Invasion credits are a good example of…

This is stupid, because ultimately AI art and videos, while odd or even unintentionally hilarious at times, are soulless. Art is about creative expression, the time and craft people use to share and create experiences, why would I want to see an automated version of that?

No, it’s not that deep when your country is run by people that really don’t care about the working class. It’s very obviously intentional. However, I do agree that this “AI” is helpful, but the issue is that it was very quickly acquired and ballooned into something pretty nefarious -- because they can.

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

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…

There has been AI as a part of Photoshop tools for a long time before it became a buzzword. But they were tools meant to assist creative vision not replace it.

I just hope this is a one-off instance and they go back to using actual artists. Very dangerous precedent.