[prox]

There is a reason people (used to) study art and train for years. Easy art is often no art because you need that effort and investment, and learning artistic context, to understand and appreciate.

Which is not to say don’t be creative, I applaud all creativity, but also to be very critical of what you are doing.

[bestthrowaway]

I've been playing around with T2I/I2V generation to make some NSFW stuff of video-game characters using ComfyUI.

It's pretty easy to get something decent. It's really hard to get something good. I share my creations with some close friends and some are like "that's hot!" but are too fixated on breasts to realize that the lighting or shadow is off. Other friends do call out the bad lighting.

You may be like "it's just porn, why care about consistent lighting?" and the answer for me is that I'm doing all this to learn how everything works. How to fine tune weights, prompts, using IP Adapter, etc. Once I have a firm understanding of this stuff, then I will probably be able to make stuff that's actually useful to society. Unlike that coke commercial.

[sam345]

You can do better than porn which isn't very useful to society.

[CamperBob2]

As opposed to what you're doing at the moment, living your best life here on social media.

[abustamam]

I think it's a fair comment though. Porn isn't really useful to society (one could argue that it's actually detrimental to society but that's a separate topic).

But what I understood from parent comment is that they just do it for fun, not necessarily to be a boon to society. And then if it comes with new skills that actually can benefit society, then that's a win.

Granted, the commenter COULD play around with SFW stuff but if they're just doing it for fun then that's still not benefiting society either, so either way it's a wash. We all have fun in our own ways.

[abustamam]

Reminds me of that AI coke commercial. I personally didn't notice how shitty it was until I read about it online. (I actually didn't even see the commercial until I read about it online).

But it's impressive that this billion dollar company didn't have one single person say "hey it's shitty, make it better."

[astrange]

It's an intentional new-media ad, so I think they're embracing the flaws rather than trying to hide them.

Also, since it's new media, nobody knows how to budget time or money to fix the flaws. It could be infinitely expensive.

[scotty79]

Everything's shitty in its own way. Modern (or even golden age era) movies, with top production values are equivalent of Egyptian wall paintings. They have specific style, specific way to show things. Over the years movie artists just figured out in what specific way the movies should be shitty and the audiences were taught that as a canon.

AI is shitty in its own new unique ways. And people don't like new. They want they old, polished shittiness they are used to.

[abustamam]

While I agree that all art is kinda shitty in its own way (IMDB has sections dedicated to breaks in continuity and stuff like that), experienced filmmakers would be good at hiding the shittiness (maybe with a really clever action sequence or something).

It's only a matter of time before we get experienced AI filmmakers. I think we already have them, actually. It's clear that Coke does not employ them though.