[barrkel]

I was forwarded a message just moments ago by my mother, a 5 second Facebook video, clearly AI generated - and I suspect Open Sora.

More AI slop for everyone.

[seydor]

At some point we should stop treating our mothers as infants. It doesnt matter that they didn't grow up with the internet, they should adapt , despite their age. It has happened before and will happen again.

(it makes me mad that similar arguments are often brought when discussing mobile phones' walled garden policies)

[barrkel]

Oh I told her what it was, she said she'd put her reality glasses on. We'll see how it goes :)

[dingnuts]

old people don't struggle with tech because they didn't grow up with it

well, they kinda do, but here's the thing

when you're old, all the tech that's out will be alien to you

I'm not even middle aged, I'm a tech enthusiast, and nonetheless it is happening to me already. new UI and new tools all happening too fast to keep up

we should be trying to do something about this for ourselves, not just for our mothers

[seydor]

Sure, but if it s dangerous to you, then maybe you shouldn't be using it - at all. We trust older people to vote, they should do it in good judgement and this includes consideration of where they get their information

[echelon]

I know AI will be used to spam, but to not see or acknowledge the positive capabilities of this technology is absolutely flabbergasting to me.

This is going to make filmmaking cheap and accessible to a broad audience, and that's nothing short of a miracle.

I typically do each year's 48 hour film project with a team of 8 or more people. This year I did it with myself and an editor, and it was amazing - no 6 AM trip to the prop house, no lifting heavy props from the top shelf, no signing location release forms, no sweltering lights. I didn't have to put on makeup or do blocking for hours. (I used mocap, rotoscoping, and compositing.)

I've been using AI diffusion canvases to design - something I'd previously found entirely intimidating and unapproachable. I'm having so much fun and enjoyment with this.

I don't see the world the same way, and I don't get this negativity.

[barrkel]

I get it. I play with image generation myself, with the odd bit of training and fine-tuning. But you have to recognize that the low marginal cost of this kind of generation is self-cheapening, and a world filled with gaudy saccharine content (the kind of stuff that wins RLHF head to head comparisons) upvoted and shared by people who don't recognize it for what it is, is a little bit dispiriting.

[voidUpdate]

You've hit the nail on the head. Its good at designing. But you can see from the visual quality of the examples that its not ready to be used as final content. No AI content I've seen is really ready to be used as a final piece, It shouldn't only ever really be the basis for something. I have no issues with an AI generated piece being used as a "sketch" or a "storyboard" but using it for a final product is just... lazy and looks crap?

[nineteen999]

Can we see your this years project anywhere? Just curious to what you achieved with it, how complex the film is etc.