Disneys' hand up his ass
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"Han shot first" dude is possibly the original slop author. But then his followers outslopped him.
But also: of course AI is the future. It's almost the current.
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I would like to think that not every prestigious filmmaker is vulnerable to the AI propaganda, but
What a condescending opener. Whatever you think of George Lucas, he’s made some cool stuff, he did it the old fashioned way, and he’s not constrained by resources. But rather than listen to what he has to say on the topic, this guy begins with the presumption that no, George must be deluded from swallowing propaganda.
I’m hardly George Lucas’s biggest fan but this writer can blow me.
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I'm sure he'll make gobs of money off of it, as contradictory as the fan base is they will fill the theaters
Which he would get exactly $0 from since he has no ownership of Star Wars anymore.
This is not the intelligence you are looking for...
"AI" may be the future, but right now, in the present, it feels like rape.
It doesn't seem coincidental that "AI are the future" people heavily imply nobody should resist it.
I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they'd be feeling betrayed rather than excited.
Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!
It's like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it's done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.
More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.
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How to tell who invested heavily in AI with one easy trick.
your mistake by selling SW rights to disney who ended using a slop generator, shouldve done a partial ownership instead. instead of getting rare sw films or shows that are decent, its just slop now.
CGI is one of the places where AI has been used for years. People were happy enough using generative AI before chatbots why stop now? I think the de-aging stuff is a pretty cool storytelling tool and the greenscreen filters save a lot of time and add quality.
Wonder how George will fuck it up will he use a movie generator?
Are you seriously comparing using generative diffusion models to applying a chroma key in video editing?
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Lucas has always been on the forefront of utilizing tech in movie production so it's really no surprise he would adopt this mindset.
He climbed the ladder, and now he doesn't care if it gets kicked down.