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.

  • 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