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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fucking love seeing this stuff happen. We’ve got a really powerful new material to work with here but we need to temper it and get it right or we will only make things worse.

The cat is out of the bag. Either we get it right and have a way to change tides against corps with new found power, or we let it slip and give another jewel away to be locked up in private treasure hoardes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watch for the news of writers caught using AI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's allowed, no?

Unless I'm mistaken, this was more about writers not wanting the studio to be able to say "we had an ai generated a script. We'll pay you a day to do a brief editing pass."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Quoting the linked article:

The contract the Guild secured in September set a historic precedent: It is up to the writers whether and how they use generative AI as a tool to assist and complement—not replace—them. Ultimately, if generative AI is used, the contract stipulates that writers get full credit and compensation.

So, yeah. It's more about ensuring that a human person in the writers' guild gets credited as a writer, even if they or someone else uses an ai as a tool in the process.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Translation: "The musicians on the Titanic used their collective bargaining to ensure that they would have fair pay and terms for the foreseeable future. Oh look, a pretty iceberg."

The idea that the current status quo is going to last even five years is laughable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone consuming AI-generated media deserves whatever brain rot it gives them, lmao.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can now train a generative voice on my own voice and have it sing along to my own generative music.

A few more tweaks to make it consistently off key and it will be near indistinguishable! I will be able to torture not just my children, but my great-grandchildren, far into the future.

What an age.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would they bother listening to something you didn’t even bother making? At least with selfies or stupid internet posts that’s actually something you did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because the source of entertainment matters less then you think.

Plenty of artists are using ai to augment their workflow and I believe that will be the future for art.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm already cynical of how much human written media is purposeless. We're entering Reverse Turing Test territory. If your work is indiscernible from AI, are you really human? Think of all those pop stars that can't interview worth a damn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That might work for clip art nobody is looking at particularly hard, but the shit is just obvious and ugly for anything else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That girl got way too much shit on their laptop.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

She’s got as much as she wants, which is the right amount.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My first thought when I watched the Halo TV show was that these writers need to get paid more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was your first thought watching the Halo show? 😅 I mean… yeah that’s important but uhhhh… I’m not ashamed to admit that wasn’t probably my first thought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Writers are people, not AI that improves its output quality the more money (hardware) you throw at it. The writers of the Halo TV show should have just been replaced with an entirely new team that actually understood the source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A century ago, workers in the wool industry rioted against the spinning jenny. In the end, they were defeated. So it will be for the writers et al. The wheel turns. Ride it or get run over.