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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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[-] orlando@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i've written about this elsewhere but my working idea is that star trek abandoned any true claim to being a socialist setting after gene roddenberry died and that even then he was working from second hand material like the counterculture of the day filtered through his american lens. the borg collective vs individualism and the focus on ~~americans~~ humans in space when they are surrounded by alleged equals are prime examples of this. it carries the seeds inherent to liberalism that grow into fascism, just enough for these chuds to inhabit the fandom comfortably and eventually move to appropriate it.

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