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Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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People want $200k optics, but will settle for an AI, where they wouldn't settle for an iPhone? What?

You don't need photons to paint with pixels. But if you're using photons, good gear is very costly.

You can emulate optics in software without using AI

Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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post #42

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You don't need photons to paint with pixels. But if you're using photons, good gear is very costly.

You can emulate optics in software without using AI

Sounds like you're on a moral crusade against a particular technology rather than trying to do the job of telling a story.

Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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I'm on the image and video side of AI. I see the claims being levied against LLMs, but in the generative media world these models are nothing short of revolutionary. In addition to being an engineer, I'm also a filmmaker. This tech has so many orders of magnitude changes to the production cycle: - Films can be made 5,000x cheaper (a $100M Disney film will be matched by small studios on budgets of $20,000.) - Films ca…

Why would I prefer a film that was generated by you pressing a button over a film that was generated by me pressing the same button?

Gen AI tools are being used by teams of writers, directors, editors, and VFX artists.

These aren't prompted end-to-end. There's a tremendous amount of work being done.

For end-to-end, go to Show Runner AI. Or look up SpongeBob AI on YouTube.

Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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> Stop insulting us and show some f*king proof, or go back to playing with LLMs until you can make them do the things you claim they can do. Everything revolving around these LLMs so far as been tech hype culture and similar "think of the future" vibes. IMO we never see proof of this because right now it simply doesn't exist.

>Everything revolving around these LLMs so far as been tech hype culture... compare with a headline from today: >OpenAI’s ChatGPT to hit 700 million weekly users, up 4x from last year I don't think there was much that hype when ChatGPT launched. Just an awful lot of people using it because it's kind of cool. The critics seem to do a certain amount of goal post moving, like saying it's doing well by having unprecedent…

> Is anyone actually claiming they produce wholly novel research?

I would argue companies performing layoffs because they think LLMs can do the work of a human is practically the same thing. There was even another article posted here today saying a bunch of companies are hiring humans again to fix the terrible work LLMs are doing, so it's fair to assume C-level jerks do think LLMs can produce something to the level of novel research and are finding out LLMs can't.

Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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post #52

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You can emulate optics in software without using AI

Sounds like you're on a moral crusade against a particular technology rather than trying to do the job of telling a story.

Why would emulating optics be a 'moral crusade against AI' ? Optics are straight math, not probabilities, are you sure this is projection?

Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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post #52

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You can emulate optics in software without using AI

Sounds like you're on a moral crusade against a particular technology rather than trying to do the job of telling a story.

Premiere plugins are cheaper than open AI subscriptions. You can make an iPhone look however you want in post.

Re: Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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This post is perfect. It summarizes my position on today's variant of 'AI' exactly. I'm sending this article to everyone that asks me how I feel about it. Thanks for writing it.

Everyone is so excited about "AI" that no one stops for a second to comprehend, scrutinize, doubt. Tehy're basically on gpt adearall.
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