The big issue with AI is that it makes the illusion of said detail, but it's all actually shallow and meaningless. You can make something pleasing to the eye at the times, but we are ushering yet another renewal of the modern artistic era which is "look how much of this seemingly hard thing we pooped out, therefore it must be good and meaningful!", rather than actually valuing deep and thought out media, 'flashy' is all we're told we need to care about.

It reminds me of all the clip art (that is, generic illustrations that you would buy by the sheet and literally clip and stick on your design) that low-budget ad agencies or small businesses used to mimic the eye-catching graphics of much more expensive ad campaigns. It has very little cultural impact and it's transparently commercial, even more so than the magazine ads or illustrations that people are nostalgic for now.

Michaelangelo spent the better part of a year working on the Sistine Chapel. He often worked 16-hour days. IIRC at one point, he had some kind of foot illness that rotted his boots because he was standing in them for long periods of time, then falling asleep on the scaffolding without bothering to come down. It was well over 3,000 hours of work to do the whole ceiling.

When I do arts n crafts i'm not doing thankless labor to get a finished product. I LIKE the process, it is fun to me. I think they fundamentally misunderstand how art works. People arent born good at it and decide they're going to paint a masterpiece, usually they just fuck around with paint for decades and eventually stuff starts coming out really good. I have never really planned my end result and tend to be super spontaneous. This is because I have developed a lot of technical skills since I was a toddler and can incorporate on impulse, most of the time it turns out better than I'd hoped for and the rest of the times ive learned what doesnt work, which is even more important. I didnt do all of this cause im disciplined, it's just something I enjoy so i kept doing it. There are aspects of agonizing over things, but it's enjoyable agonizing. There is plenty of art I enjoy where they were clearly just trying to have fun and whatever came of it was it. But you have to be decent enough in the first place at something to make something half assed seem fun to others, I think something like Aqua Teen would fall into that category.

I knew AI animation didn't use props, background, foreground, etc. and was generating each frame in its entirety. I didn't realize it was also not really generating the actual frames L M A O

The first part of re-education will have them watch a data center burn down

It's like the inversion of the alleged Einstein quote, that 'm*dness'* is trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result, the AI hype crew are equally as deluded in thinking that they can give their slip generator the same input and expect the same output. It won't. It will generate something different every time like some skinner box. You can't 'tweak' your model or your prompts

*Apologies to comrades who find the term abelist, i am quoting it in the format it is commonly repeated. I also disagree with the apocryphal quote because quantity and repetition is its own quality that's why we train and practice

"writing is solved! *smashes autocomplete*"

I don't know why there was such a furore about Einstein "inventing" general relativity. He could've just learned it in school like I did. Can't be any value to his way of thinking.

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And it still fucked up the consistency of the skyline too.

I can maybe see it being useful for storyboarding, but 98% of film making is the details. You see these behind the scenes things where the team is like "yeah, so we had this shot that required this camera motion that was physically impossible, so we created this whole software pipeline and invented a new type of camera rig, then they ended up cutting this scene".

Democratisation among who?

The people with actual motivation to improve at a craft are already applying themselves to practice. They are artists, writers, film makers, developers, etc. They're actually making and improving at something already and most of them are repulsed by AI, even among developers there's a derogatory attitude to "vibe coding".

Democratisation only means giving the ability to make shit to the laziest people, the people who have spent their whole lives too lazy to sit down and do the work necessary to get good at something. These people aren't going to be good writers, because they don't apply themselves to writing. They don't apply themselves to anything. They do not have the motivation.

So all it's really doing is giving the power to make this shit to the least talented and least motivated people. All the motivated people are already doing something with their motivation. They're already making art with their hands.

This magical "talent" that they think is a biological phenomenon that just exists in people is actually years and years of work and improvement through practice, in all arts.

I stomached one minute of that...

Jesus Christ it's the worst

What I hate the most about AI video generation is that it's very good at all the wrong things while being so random and uncontrollable as to be functionally useless. It can literally only make janky vapid slop and every improvement it gets only makes the problem more pronounced because it becomes more detailed and less glaring-error-prone without fixing the core problems that make it useless.

And the short in that post is like the ideal scenario for covering up those flaws, too: non-human characters with busy but uniform details no one can really pay too close attention to, that are always viewed from the front, and that remain in place while making overly exaggerated movements. And it still looks like ass with noticeable errors that literally cannot be corrected since the "creator" is just pulling a gacha lever over and over.

The bad animation can also be solved by hiring good animators

They keep having to pay these damn animators and writers, it's a real obstacle in the way of profit that needs to be solved.