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Disney's Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
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#12What's wrong with using generative AI?
After a brief period of fascination, it's become a synonym of low quality and low effort. See e.g. the relevant KitKat campaign: https://www.creativebloq.com/news/kit-kat-ai-ad
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#13What's wrong with using generative AI?
People being put out of a job don't like. Out of the blue, right?
Re: Disney's Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI
#14This is ironic. If you had to pick a patron god of generative AI, it would definitely be Loki.
That was actually the plot of an old X-Men comic. Loki came to earth and started granting wishes. Basically turning regular people into Forge-style creative mutants. One was a master architect who gained the power to realize anything he dreamed of.
But the X-Men later realize the gift is tainted; it's powered by human creativity. The architect discovers that while he can fabricate any structure he ever imagined, he can't imagine any new ones.
Confronted with accusations of treachery, Loki is chagrined. He more or less thought he was bringing something to humans they actually wanted, and is infuriated when they reject his gift. He fundamentally cannot understand what it is that people desire.
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#16> A Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regarding AI-generated content. A human-made poster uses a stock photo for the background, which is suspected to be AI. This is such a non-issue.
Hollywood might well spend a decade fighting this AI straw-man, with increasingly kooky demands. How stupid of them :(
From the crowd earning a living with copying code from SO and tutorials, I wouldn't expect they see any issue with copied imagery. Let's chat again when AI does some proper coding.
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#17It's surprising that the article doesn't mention the ongoing strikes in Hollywood [1], driven largely by concerns about the use of generative AI in film production.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hollywood_labor_dispute...
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#18> A Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regarding AI-generated content. A human-made poster uses a stock photo for the background, which is suspected to be AI. This is such a non-issue.
Sometimes a news story is really an advertisement.
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#19Squiggly lines and generative artifacts would match the story line of the season of "time slipping" however. If it is not AI, I can see a designer giving a Dali-like style for that reason.
Yes, give a big studio the benefit of the doubt. They have great track records of not exploiting the industry, and are usually fair conscientious actors that provide unity and financial stability to all the artists and creatives they empower.
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#20for some insight on how AI generated images can quickly ruin everything, go onto Threads and "like" one or two AI-generated landscapes; your feed will instantly turn into and endless stream of hyper-colorful, mind-bending AI-generated landscapes, each one more dramatically trippy than the last one, and within 5 minutes your brain just shuts off to the whole thing, images that if you saw an artist make just one would be amazing now looks like meaningless trash.
It's like playing Minecraft with full mods turned on that find you all the diamonds to mine automatically, or like drinking 4 liters of Coke and trying to enjoy a high quality pastry afterwards.