Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I can barely understand the expectation this will just blow over.
These programs turn whatever you have into whatever you describe… even if you have nothing. If you actually provide an animatic, a pre-vis pass, or stand-ins acting it out, it’ll follow those, and work better. The less you ask for, the more it can do. Its shortcomings keep dwindling and the models keep shrinking. Sora shut down because this tech has moved on to local models running near real-time.
That’s gonna revolutionize Hollywood the way refrigerators revolutionized selling ice for iceboxes.
Disney doesn’t benefit because they have the money to do things the hard way. Most people don’t. So a filter that turns cardboard sets into sci-fi blinkenlights is useful to plenty of people with no hope of securing a two-comma budget. It will let them make art that would otherwise be gatekept by capital. People might excuse any gap in quality knowing the thing otherwise would not exist. And that gap will shrink. Hollywood will find itself competing with manic weirdos, like print publishers who could no longer pick which comics and stories get read.
Cocteau said film will only become art when it’s as cheap as pencil and paper. Digital cameras have brought us pretty close, but you can’t point your iPhone at an incidental space battle. Conversely: Kraus said everyone has a book in them, and in most cases that’s where it should stay. The first wave of popular use here is already rude fanfiction. But the stories the average person can tell, in motion, have now massively expanded. They can’t all be Fruit Love Island.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
Which is the entire ideology of the cult around AI.
Y’all want a world that gives you nothing you ask for while we are powerless to do nothing.
You are wrong, or at least you are wrong to identify your beliefs as in the realm of rationality or science, what you are espousing a set of religious beliefs in the power of AI that there is zero evidence AI will fulfill.
I am fine with you having different spiritual beliefs then me just don’t everybodies time by trying to force everyone to think your religion is reality.
No one cares who isn’t already part of your cult.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 hours ago
The only “cult” around AI is the anti-AI cult. The rest of us just acknowledge the reality that AI is now an everyday tool to use, and it’s revolutionising the world at a break-neck pace. It’s turning entire industries on their heads, doing in minutes for a handful of dollars what a year ago took 300 people millions of dollars to do.
The genie is out of the bottle, and it’s not going back in ever again. The genie is only going to get more powerful by leaps and bounds. The anti-AI crowd are going to be left behind, unemployed, and even worse for them - unemployable.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Edcept it isn’t? We are in amid a massive economic bubble with AI that is about to burst given that almost no AI companies are profitable and they consume an incredible amount of energy.
You are fantasizing about a religion, great, you can believe in whatever you want but stop making a clown out of yourself by pretending what you are espousing isn’t a set of religious beliefs with no hard evidence to support the magical thinking they demand.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Literally what are you talking about.
I am describing how video-to-video models are better at ‘change this one thing’ than ‘make up a whole scene.’ It’s not metaphysics. It’s CGI for dummies.
Local models run on the same power draw as a video game, and some can process ten seconds of footage every five seconds. The best use - because ‘change this one thing’ works better - is processing things humans made the usual way. E.g., real actors on cardboard sets, and other things I actually said.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Nope, this is a bullshitters tool for people with no talent who want to pretend there is a shortcut to making good art.
The tool you are obsessed with is just a way of convincing yourself you made something when jt was stolen from other human artists when the AI you are using illegally stole a massive amount of content.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
You’re having a much more contentious conversation inside your head. Please stop projecting traits you’d rather be arguing against, when someone points out, it does the thing it’s for. It demonstrably functions. You could make a coherent moral argument about how it was made - but you haven’t. You’ve railed against an imaginary frothing psychopath, because someone politely described utility.
How it was made is addressable, by the way. It’s fixable. There will be vegan models made from bespoke, licensed, and public-domain data. Will that change your opinion in any way? Or is that complaint decorative?