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by chefandy 2y ago
It probably depends on what you mean by real-time. Hair isn't something I deal with a lot, but I'm familiar with the space. It says the top model had a few hundred thousand hairs. Doing real-time flat-shaded grooming in a DCC that
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You seem to have forgotten what this conversation is about in your herculean effort to still feel right about saying something utterly ridiculous. You said this: > You still aren't getting it. Movie directors aren't making thes
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It's changing. I imagine that was always intended to be an introductory thing to cement their position in the marketplace.
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Never in my entire life have I said it's not possible for the AI image generation process to include a lot of creative decisions. In fact, I've repeatedly said the opposite. Like I said, you're attacking positions I don&#x2
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PEP contains lots of best practices that aren't enforced by the interpreter though, doesn't it? e.g. PEP 8. It's been a while so maybe PEP 8 is more unique than I realize? It seems like a pretty sensible recommendation that w
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by chefandy 2y ago
I'm a technical artist so I'm pretty familiar with professional film and game production pipelines, and how generative AI is used within them. The genuinely useful tools for NN in production workflows will look like Nuke's co
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And that's why laymen with prompts will never replace trained artists/designers for anything but trivial use cases— the ability to decide a) how best to visually communicate the right thing to the right audience, b) whether gener
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by chefandy 2y ago
We had a big poster of the Long Room in the Harvard Law Library. (Employee, not student.) Gorgeous. Always looked at it walking past. My only experience with the Book of Kells that age was working in an absolutely disgusting nightclub named
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by chefandy 2y ago
It's just a matter of strategy— their goal is to get people to buy the game who might otherwise use an emulated copy. They aren't doing it for the principle— It's a sale in their pocket and avoids downward pressure on their p
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When you fabricate points and statements that work better with your counterpoint than what they actually said, it's a straw man argument. That's what you've got there. That man is definitely made of straw.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Your sarcastic, bad faith, I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I-level statements attack positions I dont hold, yet avoid addressing anything I said— all of which is based on my professional experience with using generative AI in media creation, and
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by chefandy 2y ago
For sure. Tooling on top of the core model functionality will absolutely increase the utility of the existing prompt-based workflows, too, but my gut says the diminishing returns on model training is going to keep the "good enough&quot
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I think the most vulnerable spots in the industry are in concept art and matte painting, though I also think companies are starting to realize it's not all its cracked up to be. A colleague that also contracts for [big famous FX and a
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by chefandy 2y ago
> You are spot on. I've been involved in creating technologies used by film and video creators for decades, so I have some understanding of what would be useful to them. The best video AIs I've seen only seem capable of replac
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Well I really hope that you were easily able to transition out of paste-up because it kind of blows me away how quickly that whole craft just got clobbered. Just like my uncle that specialized in atlas publishing-- luckily he was able to ha
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by chefandy 2y ago
The symphony conductor gets credit for being the conductor-- not for being Beethoven. A film director has a thousand times more influence on their final product than a conductor has on theirs, and they still don't try to take credit fo
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by chefandy 2y ago
Sure it's a lot of fun. I also find it very useful for some things like references and mood boards. No matter how granular you get with control nets or LORAs and how good the models get, you just can't get the specificity needed f
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by chefandy 2y ago
This is a common perspective among people that don't realize how much goes into making a movie. That stuff informs which movies get approved and it certainly can inform broader script changes , casting changes , and in some cases
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by chefandy 2y ago
It's still very different. What you describe is exactly what an art director does, which is creative and difficult— there's a good reason many commercial artists end their careers as art directors but none start there. Anybody t
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by chefandy 2y ago
Well gosh, good thing someone in big tech gave me permission to be mad about many in my field being screwed by big tech! Too bad that won't help pay for my cancer treatment because there's no way in hell they'll push out a cu
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by chefandy 2y ago
>Is that not the work of commercial creative workers? Did it not exist pre AI? There's an argument to scale, certainly, but the idea that "things were better in the past before these <<new technologies>> came out&qu
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And I used to be right there with them until I realized it was entirely an entirely self-serving way to justify not paying for shit. (I'm not saying it is for everybody, or that everybody's situation mimics mine-- but I was honest
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You're arguing about something I'm not. I completely agree that what I did was wrong, and to boot, I stopped pirating music as soon as online music stores like itunes popped up despite being an impoverished line cook. That has abs
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It's one of the reasons I left tech altogether after decades . It's like most people in the tech business right now think their totally unique supreme intellectual might gives them enough pan-subject-matter expertise. The furth
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Sure, and it wasn't the right thing to do, especially if it was from an independent artist. I haven't in well over a decade. There's also a canyon of a difference between that, and if I had re-sold their product, at scale, ef
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> But I also think the people that want to pay for art will continue to pay as their motives and values are different. The big difference is the type of artist. People selling fine art won't be affected much. The vast majority of ar
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> The reason so much writing, podcasting, and music is vulnerable to AI disruption is that quality has already become secondary. Commercial creative workers are vulnerable because there's a billions-of-dollars industry effort to cop
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Yeah but in a prison it's more difficult to use bureaucracy and shame to stop people from utilizing those services.
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They don't say "classical statistics," but I don't see any implication that the phenomenon was born from machine learning, even if they say it's a common problem within machine learning. Maybe I missed it? They do m
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Then, some will dust off that Larry Wall quote about hubris as if it's exculpatory... Well, I read that book too, and he was definitely talking about problem-solving approaches in software development, and not general-purpose person

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