There recently was a video on YouTube about how they trained an AI to actually isolate content from greenscreen where the results were very promising. So while maybe not revolutionary, it did prove to be very helpful. Though we all know that's not the billion dollar thing these investments were for.
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When you say isolate content from greenscreen what do you mean? Like take a finished shot and re-green the stuff that was greenscreened in?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ploi723hg4 this is the video, it's about situations where normal filters have issues cropping out the content without spill or when some objects are reflective or transparent.
You know this is desperately grasping for straws here given the massive economic AI bubble we are in right?
Hey, I'm well aware this doesn't justify it in any way and this isn't what any tech bro had in mind. I'm just saying there have been advancements in a maybe unexpected area of video editing. But I thought this was clear from three way I worded my comment
It's not gonna save Hollywood, they mean.
We didn't need AI for the Hollywood slop. It's already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).
True, I suppose it already has permanently decreased the quality of life of CGI artists because their labor will now always be judged as a more costly alternative to AI that doesn't actually work but still serves as a good bargaining chip against employees in negotiations.
Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?
It's like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.
Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn't been seen in 100 years?
People be like "ai is just a tool" and yeah, but thats also incredibly reductive considering what AI actually is. Maybe it is a tool, but it is a tool that uses us, not the other way around. What gets called a pattern of human behavior, used to cause wars and uprisings. the pattern isnt something essential to human nature, it's socially constructed.
The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.
The difference between a human artist working with digital media vs analog media is a difference in materials.
The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal other human's art.
You can use anything to make art, AI techbros didnt prove that, my point is AI is a shitty self-defeating tool that hides the theft of our public commons of shared art made by humans behind a bunch of bullshit technobabble.
Hopefully we'll see a shift towards people that gets displaced from these big studios banding together and forming their own independent studios. This has happened quite a bit in the games industry, which is undergoing a similar shift. As long as people keep pushing back against AI-created content and favor human-created things, at least; if that public opinion shifts, we're just fucked.
I mean that's Glitch Productions' entire schtick basically and it seems to work well for them
Yeah but what makes me sad is that smaller independent studios cannot maintain an industry of artists alone and thus the gaming and movie world is going to exit the golden age we have been in.
There needs to be large, boring more "institutional" companies making large movie or game projects to provide the capacity for entry level jobs at scale, to provide more stable places for an artist to work while raising a family or to provide a stepping stone in employment between more meaningful jobs at smaller more focused companies.
I love Indie Games, I love smaller art projects of all kinds, but my point is the labor market is broken in these industries and it can lead to nowhere else than collapse of the industry.
This is a perfect example of the myth that capitalism is efficient, it can be seen here clearly that it leads directly to a periodic shattering of industries leaving only a couple of massive companies to buy up the entire landscape and consolidate control over the industry after the cataclysm.
Disney must be so Sora
Why must they shit on cool Kingdom Hearts guy and the blue skies and the concept of emptiness in general, with their AI nonsense?
AI video won’t need Hollywood. Putting IP into it was a dumb idea. Mickey Mouse seductively polishing a candle stick? That’s not what they wanted, but that’s what they’d get.
When AI comes for movies, it’s going to show how crappy (most) movies already are.
I am not afraid of AI taking over movies, everything AI makes is suffocatingly derivative and boring.
Umm… just like Hollywood.
No, the difference is it is actually possible though unlikely for an original movie to come out of a big studio.
AI because of the fundamental design of it, will never ever make anything original.
Sure it will. Give it a prompt and it does the work. Make the prompt original and it will be original. AI doesn’t choose the story… humans do.
I just don’t think you understand AI beyond chatbots and low effort memes.
Make the prompt original and it will be original.
Make the prompt original
Make
You don't understand AI beyond your scifi slop fantasy of what it is rather then the reality that it is possibly one of the worst lossy data compression algorithms ever designed.
Without a constant influx of high quality human training data curated by humans AI is capable of nothing novel. It is a highly lossy data compression algorithm that is somehow so processing inefficient it has become an existential environmental problem because of the electricity use required to sustain this bullshit.
Yeah, you’ve got no idea what AI is if you think the compression is out of the user’s control.
You should look at the PROFESSIONAL AI tools for video creation that involve an entire render process for the 3d scenes it makes, that import into apps like Blender, Maya, etc. Auto-rigging and motion generation basically allows anyone to make an entire movie.
You’ve shown you know nothing about AI beyond OpenAI’s consumer offerings.
You can hate AI all you want, but you sound uneducated af.
You are deflecting from my points by appealing to a list of specific references to tooling when that doesn't address my actual point.
These are all lossy data compression algorithms trained on sets of human curated data created by humans. Sure you can make some use of them, but they are massively inefficient from almost every angle versus humans creating tutorials, humans creating project templates and easy to understand user interfaces, humans making teaching materials for other humans, humans answering questions on forums, humans just doing HUMAN things....
ANYTHING you argue as a pro for AI is just a poorly extracted benefit from a curated set of human data that could have been better leveraged by humans helping humans create new things directly.
You can hate AI all you want, but you sound uneducated af.
You sound like you are in a cult.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. The data YOU are missing is vast. The reason for this is you have no idea what it’s capable of beyond your current understanding.
You’re refusing to educate yourself to hold onto an idea… that’s cult behavior.
It’s fine to hate AI, but do it with education and you won’t come off like some Christian cultist
How am I coming off like a cultist?
“I don’t have to know anything about AI to hate it. I have my beliefs and they are correct. No information exists beyond my beliefs. I have not attempted to gain any further understanding.”
Where in my comments have I said I don't have to know anything about AI to hate it?
Where have I claimed maximally that no information exists beyond my beliefs?
You are Strawmanning me and it is blatant.
Since you don’t use AI, you won’t be able to use an LLM to answer any of your questions.
So outline for me your understanding of how I could use artificial intelligence to make, for example, a 3-D movie similar to Pixar movies. Explain to me the process I would go through.
Outline for me why that wouldn't be a waste of time versus going straight to the tutorial videos and materials the AI stole the content from?
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury…. I rest my case.