AI couldn’t do this a year ago, it required computer hardware that was supercomputer levels of expensive to even create something like this. IMO development was actually held back by crypto and covid-19. Now AI is the #1 focus of the techbros and it isn’t going to slow down. This shit is going to put so many journalists, artists, and even programmers out of work. I don’t know how else to explain this, HUMANITY LITERALLY CREATED AI THIS YEAR. WE MADE FUCKING SKYNET!

You want to talk about technological progress, this shit mogs fusion, it mogs the vaccines, it mogs whatever dumb space colonization shit we did. We made fucking AI! I bet we will have sentient AI in our lifetime. And what are we going to do with this stuff? Porn, lots of porn. Deepfakes of celebrities and politicians sacrificing children to moloch, dead actors staring in new movies, a new album by Tupac, fake war footage, fake everything.

Have you ever heard about how a monkey can write Shakespeare given enough time? We have fucking done that, we pressed random buttons enough times that we ended up with something legible. Now we turn memes into real people.

We need a butlarian jihad or some shit.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    this isn't close to sentience technical image processing to look like a person is not nearly as difficult as thought or having ideas.

    It might lead to more easily fakeable news but the news is already inundated with lies and nonsense

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, and while AI couldn't do this specific thing until this year, this isn't an AI revolution so much as small improvements over what it has been able to do for 10-20 years. "Make an AI remake an image as if it's a van Gogh" has been in deep learning courses for years now, and I don't see that being significantly different from this. As for putting artists out of work, I'm not convinced movies and video game studios are going to ship stuff done by AI, probably AI generated assets will just get incorporated into stuff like photoshop as a base for artists to work from.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It might be used a bit like CGI but studios also might well respond to a new source of effects by just including even more effects

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Hopefully it just cuts down hours of artists, a bit of automation where people get worked extreme hours could be a net good for the workforce. They'll probably need to organize and fight for it still.

            • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Exactly the issue. Creatives will be needed no matter what, it'll just increase the work load as capitalists adapt to the new heights they can push the worker.

              As a drudge copywriter myself, AI is currently an amazing fucking tool. But the issue will be when capital realizes I'm not being exploited hard enough.

              The tool itself could be amazing, it's heartbreaking it'll be used for ill.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            under capitalism a cut in hours might also mean a cut in staff and the rest just work the same amount of time.

            my optimistic take here is they might continue with effects and just include more effects maybe even hiring more artists to work on films and hollywood as I understand it is actually pretty well unionised although I could be wrong about that

            • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Hollywood is pretty well unionized, but I believe cgi studios aren't. Part of the theory of why cg gets used a lot in places where practical effects and set construction might look better is that it's essentially a union busting tactic.

              • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                damn hope they unionise. still though this is basically a new form of CGI that I don't think will drastically effect livelihoods and might even result in some cool cinematography and as a component in some neat art

            • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              under capitalism a cut in hours might also mean a cut in staff and the rest just work the same amount of time.

              this is what happened with electronic spreadsheets and some other stuff because those guys didn't have unions or socialism.

              there are guilds and shit in the arts, hopefully people who want to do that shit for a living strengthen their class solidarity

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I'm thinking of those tabloid papers with the photoshopped covers that used to be all over grocery store shelves.

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      also we shouldn't really worry at all about sentient AI so much as sapient AI. Computers sense electrical voltages to function. Computers have been able to see and hear for decades.

      fucken scifi writers fucking up terminology a hundred years ago.