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I hate this so much. The part that really gets me is that it's "good" enough that it could absolutely serve as a low effort corporate slop factory for any outfit with a few tens of thousands in computer hardware to trivially churn out absolute garbage that would previously cost tens of thousands per episode at least, while still being completely useless in practice because it's still just a slop gacha. Like it's not a useful, production boosting tech that could also give low-budget creators a way to actually produce their vision (the way something like SFM did for enabling amateurs and hobbyists to start animating with no barrier to entry), it's a random slop generator that makes garbage only suitable for grifters and corporate slop factories.

Also the paired audio and visual generation getting that "good" is fucking horrifying for so many other reasons too. This is something that can only make everything worse, like those fucking chatbots that are poisoning everything.

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[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Media literacy is not usually their strong suit. Probably also watched it as kids and nostalgic for it before coalescing their current beliefs and enjoy the aesthetics for the same reason we do, but conveniently gloss over the utopian post money society with "Zefram Cochrane made the warp drive because he wanted to get rich under capitalism!" which absolves / reinforces the system as something inherently worthwhile because innovation has never existed under different modes of production.

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