jaredwhite @ jaredwhite @piefed.social

Nerd about the fediverse, based in Portland, Oregon. 🌲 Nice to meet you! �

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I saw it and found it incredibly moving. It's more of a "romdramedy"—it definitely has comedic moments and of course romantic beats driving the overall plot forward but at its core it's a commentary on societal expectations and class divisions. Would definitely recommend. (Unless you're truly just looking for a fun romcom in which case prob should go watch Nobody Wants This on Netflix or whatever…which I also love, don't get me wrong!)

For those of you with a Nebula subscription, you can also watch it here:
https://nebula.tv/videos/angelacollier-vibe-physics

"Not infuriating, not enraging. Mildly Infuriating. All posts should reflect that."

Read the sign. 🙃

I loved Perfect Days, one of the most visually compelling indie films I've ever had the pleasure of seeing.

da fuq you doin 😂

Old and busted: accidentally install malware on Windows.
New hotness: now Windows itself is malware!

Blink Twice (2024) was in this vein as well. It also had a tech bro/misogynist angle, but wealth (and the power which comes from it) was definitely front and center.

Technically, LLMs as used in Generative AI fall under the umbrella term "machine learning"…except that until recently machine learning was mostly known for "the good stuff" you're referring to (finding patterns in massive datasets, classifying data entries like images, machine vision, etc.). So I feel like continuing to use the term ML for the good stuff helps steer the conversation away from what is clearly awful about genAI.

Whoa, I look exactly like that at this precise moment…

I don't at all agree with this graph, and I think you're sort of missing the point of the original post.

I'm now playing a violin which measures several nanometers across.

bUt i wAs tOLd tHaT AI iSn't bAD fOr thE enViRoNmeNt 🙃

I can't believe I'm saying this*, but…I am incredibly excited to see this movie.

I've never really been a Superman fan, and on top of that didn't care for the Snyderverse (though Henry Cavill is awesome). But yeah, everything about this film is coming up positive for me so far!

This was literally the only reason I had any potential interest in GitLab. What a joke. 😠

disney can generate everything between the first and last frame of a scene

Huh? Why would anyone want to watch that? I think the jury is certainly out that any significant TV show/film generated by slop machines is in any way appealing to a significant audience.

the indie animation scene that could come about with Gen AI

You're going to have to unpack that because I have no idea what you're talking about.

looks at self in mirror and cries

I'm not sure what you're driving at. It's true that the rise of photography had an effect on painting such that styles which moved away from realism became the norm for a while, but long since we've seen a shift back to realism and a continuation of detailed portraiture or landscape illustrative techniques among some artists.

My point simply is that people who lack the technique/talent to create "fine art" have come to believe their work is of no value, which I find upsetting because I'd much rather look at "bad" human-produced art than generated slop with the superficial appearance of fine technique.

AI generated anything relies on training data based on the real thing, so there's no way to use a generator to "ethically" produce images of something unethical because it's based on the unethical imagery. There's no pathway out of the original abuse.

This is actually a really good point. Culture paved the way for the sheen of hyper "detailed" AI art (many of the details fall apart on close scrutiny, but I digress) by making it seem like "amateur" art is bad while "professional" art is good. So that means if a tool comes along that supposedly makes it so you can sidestep sweating over your amateur art and go straight to pumping out the professional-looking stuff, that's a win. It's good to question this assumption.