I see the LLM cultists have mod-points again. Here, waste some more.

If you can sell illusions for billions, there will always be some assholes that will do it.

Or rather deeply revealing where their utterly stupid AI strategy comes from. Making good software is and remains an expert game. Amateurs (like this one) need not apply. Yes, I know he has a CS degree. MS products do not reflect that and neither does this meaningless stunt.

If you do not, then the story is probably not for you.

Woke is what happens when you go to see a movie and instead of being told a compelling story woke ideology is proselytized

Recursion (n): See "recursion"

It's hilarious how obsessed you people are over a term that you can't even define and that none of you agree on. As far as I can tell, the only thing "woke" means today is "I'm A Right Winger, And This Is Something That I Personally Hate". I've seen people describe concepts as unrelated as "the concept of a metaverse" and "removing copyrighted materials to avoid lawsuits" as "woke".

An example of woke AI slop is Everything Everywhere All at Once

Um. What?

That movie was filmed from January to March 2020. You think AI video was a "thing" then? The movie premiered in March 2022. The infamously awful "Will Smith Eating Spaghetti" AI video was what AI video looked like in 2023. AI video was not "a thing" back when that movie was being made. What you actually hate is that movie's CGI.

Secondly, since when is "Jackass"-style "bro" stuff** famously leftist? Sexual gags are stereotypically "bro culture" and stereotypically disliked by feminists in particular and leftists in general. Don't get me wrong, you'll also find some people on the left who like that stuff, but the right tends to buy into it more (men tend to vote more rightward).

As far as I can tell from this, what you actually hate is (A) CGI, and (B) bro culture. Based on this, what you should actually consider yourself is an AI-supporting leftist.

At some point, probably not too far off now with their failing AI strategy, Windows sill become totally unsustainable. It is good to have several alternatives in place.

IKEA force you to use an AI chat bot. It was so bad for the multiple times I had to use it, I ended up asking it to patch me to a human on the it’s line.
But not quite as bad as when MS outsourced L1 support to India and instructed the support person to empathise with your plight.
I’m sorry sir you mouse disconnects 5 times a day. That must make you feel mad,

Obviously, they are in luck, then. Several other helicopter rescue services around the world do charge. Of course, in many of these places, people have insurance.

And in the real world, even the Swiss Rega bills people (that are not financial supporters) for rescue. And from them I have some actual numbers instead of your idiotic claims. Know what an average Rega helicopter rescue costs? About $5000.

Observable evidence says different.

That entire video sits firmly in uncanny valley.

I've shown it to about a dozen people in person without telling them it was AI first, and not a single person noticed. It's only "uncanny valley" because you've been told in advance that it's AI.

It's like my favourite social media hobby: when I encounter anti-AI people, I post things made by humans, generally masterpiece paintings or award-winning photographs, suggest that it's AI, and then watch them tear down how awful and fake and soulless it is. It's pretty hilarious ;)

So what you actually want is more taxes on the wealthy? If so, just say that. Don't hide behind arguments about copyright or that sort of stuff when that's not your actual motivation.

but while machine looms only put people out of work,

Machine looms, along with all of the other equipment of the industrial revolution, led to a massive boom of prosperity across the population as a whole. Machine looms in specific made clothing far more affordable to the average person.

One can criticize the politics of the early industrial revolution for not doing enough to funnel the wealth down quickly enough or to regulate the robber barons, but it was overall a massive benefit to quality of life of society as a whole.

LLMs are doing that plus going into systems that abuse them in lots of other ways.

And the industrial revolution made it easier to make bombs and bullets. That doesn't mean that we should all go back to medieval Europe where the average person lived on the edge of not affording their next meal and society had to dedicate almost all of its resources to basic production rather than things like education, medicine, science, etc. Or reject even more technology and ultimately end up back as paleolithic hunter-gatherers where 40-50% of people died before age 15.

Except his complaint is not. AI can replicate an actor's every detail without his consent. AI can replicate a singer's voice quite convincingly. How would you feel about some Russian studio making a fortune using AI to "discover" lost Whitney Houston songs which are actually AI slop and earn money streaming them? How would you feel about Belarusian studios adding Heath Ledger and Jimmy Stewart into their latest movies?...or some Chinese studio using AI to recreate the voice of every actor in the Avengers series into a mobile gambling game?

This is not automation making things better. His complaint was AI STEALING performances. AI can write a Quentin Tarantino script...that probably is far worse...but how would you feel if a Dubai studio started cranking out mock Tarantino scripts and filming them and saying they're from him?...or saying they're Tarantino-inspired? Or maybe just something simple:....a local real estate agency using AI Brad Pitt's voice and likeness to sell their homes. They don't claim it's him, but AI makes one of their employees look and sound EXACTLY like him.

The level of theft is very new and we need to have a serious discussion because no one knows the ramifications. However, I am confident the final output will be a lot worse than anything we're used to. Quality will go down, not up . With the industrial revolution, quality went up, uniformity went up. With AI, I think we all know the quality will go way down and shitty people will use it to steal.

From a consumer perspective, there definitely is good and bad AI. We don't want shitty slop. But most of us are fine with using AI to allow smaller crews to make a movie, one example was green screen fine tuning. AI makes the green screen image look better?...great! AI compression make the picture look sharper & more vibrant, yet still stream?...great! AI allowing storyboard artists to complete their work faster? Good! AI writing shitty dialog or adding uncanny valley details?...NO...Hell No!!!!

We saw this with CGI...laughable low-effort shitty CGI done in the 90s and early 2000s...just because they could. But with CGI, it was actually expensive. AI is cheap in comparison...so yeah, we're going to see a lot of AI slop from low-budget studios that make the mid-90s CGI look amazing.

However, with CGI, filmmakers eventually figured out how to make CGI look good and passable. They mastered making it tasteful and in major films, it usually looks pretty good. I think we'll be experiencing that broadly with AI.

However, no we don't want to pay $20 to go see AI-generated scripts with AI actors. We paid good money to see a movie and our expectation is a human with talent wrote them. Yeah, I know, lots of movies made by talented individuals turned into shitty movies, but at least they were well made. The final outcome might suck, but the sentences were complete and made sense and had some coherency...even if the final edit butchered them a bit.

It's like going to a fancy restaurant and getting a microwaved Lean Cuisine. If you spend $200 for meal at a fancy restaurant, you know you run the risk that it may not taste good and you may not enjoy the food. However, it is assumed you're getting fresh, high quality ingredients...not a frozen TV dinner.

AI in movies doesn't exist in the abstract. We're paying money for movie tickets or a monthly fee for a streaming service. Using AI to give us what we want but with less effort on your part?...most of us are fine with that. Using AI to give us something worse, but charging us the same money?...well, that's obviously heinous.

I simply incremented a number - starting at 00, then 01, etc - and by the time I would've hit "name04," some asshole perma-killed me before 24 hours. I hadn't even posted anything, so some douche mod must've been watching for "name0x." Didn't bother creating a new account, and I can't see anything without logging in, so bye reddit.