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They don't have to be as good as the best film production team - they just need to be better than the average/B-grade ones to gain adoption. With the media & e

by harikb 1y ago

They don't have to be as good as the best film production team - they just need to be better than the average/B-grade ones to gain adoption. With the media & entertainment hungry world which is about to get worse with the unempoyed/underemployed tiktok generation needing "content", something like this has to have a play.

inerte 1y ago
Or replace cutscenes in video games, or short videos on ads on mobile (already small and people are barely paying attention) Nowadays when I randomly open a news website to read some article, at the bottom of the page all the generic "hack to lose your belly" or "doctors recommend weird japanese device" or "how seniors can fly business class", I've been noticing lately 1/3rd of the images seem to be AI generated...
- nathan_compton 1y ago
  God, what a dismal future we're building.
- nine_k 1y ago
  Warning: browsing the Web without an ad blocker is hazardous to your mental health. If you regularly see ads permeating most web pages, and don't know how to avoid that, you may need to see a specialist.
  - AStonesThrow 1y ago
    Perhaps some of us choose not to rip off payments that are due to the people who provide a service that we're using. If I visit a website that's so infested with ads that I don't like being there, it's on me to stop visiting that website. I simply don't think it's fair to cheat service providers when we don't like their service. You have a choice, and that choice is to not use that service at all. They're providing it under the terms that it is ad-supported. If you don't want to support it, but you still want to use it, then you're cheating someone. That is dishonest and unethical.
    - quesera 1y ago
      If ad-supported sites would return an optional response header indicating such, and their opinion on adblocking visitors. E.g.: Advertisement-Permission: [required|requested] And my adblockers had a config option to abort pageloads with an appropriate error message, if `required` or `requested`, then I would use it happily. In the meantime, I'm browsing every site with all content blockers set at maximum, because any other choice is incomprehensible on the modern web. If I consequently visit some sites that want me to consume advertising of which I am unaware, then that is entirely their issue, not mine.
bsimpson 1y ago
Jon Stewart did a gag in this week's episode where there were happy meal toy versions of a bunch of congressmen on screen for a few seconds. A lot of content is like this - you just need an approximation to sell an idea, not a perfect reproduction. Makes way more sense to have AI generate you a quick image for a sight gag than to have someone spend all day trying to comp it by hand. And as AI imagery gets more exposure in these sort of scenarios, more people will be accustomed to it, and they'll be more forgiving of its faults. The bar for "good enough" is gonna get a lot lower as the cost of producing it comes way down with AI.

by harikb 1y ago

inerte 1y ago

Or replace cutscenes in video games, or short videos on ads on mobile (already small and people are barely paying attention) Nowadays when I randomly open a news website to read some article, at the bottom of the page all the generic "hack to lose your belly" or "doctors recommend weird japanese device" or "how seniors can fly business class", I've been noticing lately 1/3rd of the images seem to be AI generated...

nathan_compton 1y ago
God, what a dismal future we're building.
nine_k 1y ago
Warning: browsing the Web without an ad blocker is hazardous to your mental health. If you regularly see ads permeating most web pages, and don't know how to avoid that, you may need to see a specialist.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago
  Perhaps some of us choose not to rip off payments that are due to the people who provide a service that we're using. If I visit a website that's so infested with ads that I don't like being there, it's on me to stop visiting that website. I simply don't think it's fair to cheat service providers when we don't like their service. You have a choice, and that choice is to not use that service at all. They're providing it under the terms that it is ad-supported. If you don't want to support it, but you still want to use it, then you're cheating someone. That is dishonest and unethical.
  - quesera 1y ago
    If ad-supported sites would return an optional response header indicating such, and their opinion on adblocking visitors. E.g.: Advertisement-Permission: [required|requested] And my adblockers had a config option to abort pageloads with an appropriate error message, if `required` or `requested`, then I would use it happily. In the meantime, I'm browsing every site with all content blockers set at maximum, because any other choice is incomprehensible on the modern web. If I consequently visit some sites that want me to consume advertising of which I am unaware, then that is entirely their issue, not mine.

bsimpson 1y ago

Jon Stewart did a gag in this week's episode where there were happy meal toy versions of a bunch of congressmen on screen for a few seconds. A lot of content is like this - you just need an approximation to sell an idea, not a perfect reproduction. Makes way more sense to have AI generate you a quick image for a sight gag than to have someone spend all day trying to comp it by hand. And as AI imagery gets more exposure in these sort of scenarios, more people will be accustomed to it, and they'll be more forgiving of its faults. The bar for "good enough" is gonna get a lot lower as the cost of producing it comes way down with AI.