AI couldn’t do this a year ago, it required computer hardware that was supercomputer levels of expensive to even create something like this. IMO development was actually held back by crypto and covid-19. Now AI is the #1 focus of the techbros and it isn’t going to slow down. This shit is going to put so many journalists, artists, and even programmers out of work. I don’t know how else to explain this, HUMANITY LITERALLY CREATED AI THIS YEAR. WE MADE FUCKING SKYNET!
You want to talk about technological progress, this shit mogs fusion, it mogs the vaccines, it mogs whatever dumb space colonization shit we did. We made fucking AI! I bet we will have sentient AI in our lifetime. And what are we going to do with this stuff? Porn, lots of porn. Deepfakes of celebrities and politicians sacrificing children to moloch, dead actors staring in new movies, a new album by Tupac, fake war footage, fake everything.
Have you ever heard about how a monkey can write Shakespeare given enough time? We have fucking done that, we pressed random buttons enough times that we ended up with something legible. Now we turn memes into real people.
We need a butlarian jihad or some shit.
this isn’t close to sentience technical image processing to look like a person is not nearly as difficult as thought or having ideas.
It might lead to more easily fakeable news but the news is already inundated with lies and nonsense
Yeah, and while AI couldn’t do this specific thing until this year, this isn’t an AI revolution so much as small improvements over what it has been able to do for 10-20 years. “Make an AI remake an image as if it’s a van Gogh” has been in deep learning courses for years now, and I don’t see that being significantly different from this. As for putting artists out of work, I’m not convinced movies and video game studios are going to ship stuff done by AI, probably AI generated assets will just get incorporated into stuff like photoshop as a base for artists to work from.
It might be used a bit like CGI but studios also might well respond to a new source of effects by just including even more effects
Hopefully it just cuts down hours of artists, a bit of automation where people get worked extreme hours could be a net good for the workforce. They’ll probably need to organize and fight for it still.
