Pennomi

This is great stuff. If we can properly understand these “flows” of intelligence, we might be able to write optimized shortcuts for them, vastly improving performance.

Nah I do similar stuff. I think very few people actually trace their own lines of thought, so they probably don’t realize this is how it often works.

As long as open source AI keeps up (it has so far) it’ll enable technocommunism as much as it enables rampant capitalism.

I would agree with that if the cost of the tool was prohibitively expensive for the average person, but it’s really not.

Yes, but when the price is low enough (honestly free in a lot of cases) for a single person to use it, it also makes people less reliant on the services of big corporations.

For example, today’s AI can reliably make decent marketing websites, even when run by nontechnical people. Definitely in the “good enough” zone. So now small businesses don’t have to pay Webflow those crazy rates.

And if you run the AI locally, you can also be free of paying a subscription to a big AI company.

Modern AI video models do frame interpolation too, at a quality far superior to old AIs. It’s not advertised as heavily but it’s definitely a capability that is directly useful for traditional animation studios.

A lot of bots would lose their jobs if Twitter shut down. Think of the computers!

They might go to war against the leaders within the country instead. Trump is really playing with fire here, messing with the gun-toting constituents of his.

It was never supposed to be evidence. It was supposed to be an excuse.

Try comprehending what he wrote instead of spewing insults, it might make you smarter. He’s clearly not an AI bro.

Of course they aren’t, but the cartoonish levels of moustache-twirling villainy described here are unlikely to be real.

They thought it was cool. They knew it would drive usage and make money. They shit on intellectual property. There is no other explanation needed, nor is it sensible.

Animation is a totally different beast than still images, of course. Almost all AI video is complete shit right now.

The law very, VERY often violates the democratic choices of the people in the United States. That’s what you get when you do FPTP voting schemes.

Millions of bees is not very many. That’s like one smallish operation.

I’m sure it’s actually a much bigger problem than the numbers they have.

Edit: ah I see now, the article says hundreds of millions of bees, and this post missed a couple words.

The moralistic outrage is that people still have an outdated concept of intellectual property, and a blanket fear of corporations owning technological progress.

The truth is, no one can actually own an idea or style. But we have laws that try to make it a real thing. Because of regulatory capture, copyright truly only benefits corporations with lots of money, not all the little indie artists that actually would need it.

Hell, most these indie artists make their money drawing and selling fanart, which is the most literal definition of copying. Yet no one worries about that.

OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach.

I highly doubt it. They picked it because the Ghibli style is very popular among users. There’s also no reason to believe that it violates “democratic values”. Since it’s popular, the general population is voting that they LIKE it, not that they oppose it.

Downvote me all you like, but this is trying to put a lot of malice where the simpler explanation is just “money”.

You seem to have the false assumption that all AI is owned by corporations, and that it is only used for business purposes.

If I’m using AI running locally on my own machine, for my own amusement or even (heaven forbid) productivity, there is nothing unethical about that.

I’m not shocked that the oldest generation of animators are anti-AI art. The quality isn’t professional yet (even with the newest models) but it’s just good enough now that it’s easier to slap together something with AI than to pay a real artist. Quality vs cost/time tradeoffs are hard for real professionals to accept.

To be fair, a social media platform IS valuable data for an AI company. But we all know this is just a self-dealing bailout using investor money.

The difference is that aged people tend to forget their training more. I’m not worried about the youngins.