It’s good to know that when he was praising AI tools he was referring to tools and not Gen AI. Yeah, I don’t like how smooth and clean things look in his 4K releases but it’s better than other directors saying “I will have it chuck ideas”
He's still using AI to ruin movies. It isn't just making the resolution higher; it's adding shit that shouldn't be there; meaning it is in fact generative AI.
upscaling predates modern gen AI. i'll grant that it's almost never good (there's a fan-made upscaling of the anime "monster" invariably that fails with characters at a distance) but what you're talking about is artifacting, not gen AI hallucination. it's like how bilinear filtering looks like shit.
to be clear i think gen AI is bad and everyone involved in the gen AI industry should probably do a header into a vat of farm slurry and not come back up but i also think it's important to get our definitions and meanings straight when discussing this kind of stuff.
I'd like some proof if you're going to claim that they used that. Yes, there are forms of AI that aren't dogshit, but the ones James Cameron uses are anti-art and are taking away jobs from people that could be using actual talent and skill to upscale his movies.
Ok how's this. He is using garbage AI for his films instead of having humans do it because he's ether fascinated by the new tech, or lazy and greedy. Ether way is terrible for the films industry and he's damaging it badly. Does that work for you?
But Cameron is still investing in generative AI and that still sucks. It would be based if he was using his influence to bury AI in the deepest corner of Hell, rather than becoming a board member at an AI company.
Cool that he didn’t use AI in his billion dollar video game cut-scene, though.
Realistically, majority of people who are doing this could possibly be farming a left-wing audience en masse (unless they personally feel passionate about their craft), It's a good idea regardless
“Generative” being the key word; because now it’s impossible to make any digital media without some hidden use of machine learning or predictive analytics…
Yeah I see artists just get so mad when there’s a confession of *some* AI in a work (in say, “Now and Then” by the Beatles) that ends up being fairly innocuous.
And that’s fine, it’s good to be specific. A lot of stuff gets shovelled under the generic label of AI and most of it is fine, it’s just computers doing things. It’s mainly the plagiarism and lies machine that boils lakes that people take issue with
Sure, art is political. Entertainment media (read, not quite art) is political. But enjoying these things is not inherently political. And telling someone that they're being political for enjoying something that ultimately is just trying to be entertaining, is fundamentally wrong-headed and silly.
Well...uh, no.
There are many sides to art, and what your thinking of is not exactly similar to the Disney/Fox Avatar films (because it's fiction and not based on real life events)
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people arnt against every single use of AI
people are against Gen AI
so tried to reexplain that its Generative AI
they used AI in the spiderman Miles Morales movies.
AI gets used in a lot of things that are beneficial
Gen AI is sh*t... thats the one people dont like.
You arnt on the same page as everyone
the problem people have is Gen AI when using other peoples art to train it
not all AI
Cool that he didn’t use AI in his billion dollar video game cut-scene, though.
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
There is a handy setting under Accessibility that you can use to keep from forgetting in the future, please consider enabling it!
(I lean on this setting because my memory is shot thanks to acquired disability)
I still want his documentary about an alien world, planet earth style with Morgan Freeman narrating
There are many sides to art, and what your thinking of is not exactly similar to the Disney/Fox Avatar films (because it's fiction and not based on real life events)
The movies are also pretty heavy handed about them.