Someone said early on "It would be great if AI was used for creative people to skip tedious stuff. Instead, it's used for tedious people to skip creative stuff."

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That shit was a godsend when animation started being made digitally and is something you'd think would be priority #1 with AI sloppers. But of course, they'd have to understand how things actually work to make something useful.

For example, an artist using AI to automatically color hundreds of frames of animation at once, or to help with inking/tweening/color correction etc. The tedious shit that isn’t very fun.

The problem is anyone who does do something like that gets crucified by people who think "local program that's only as intensive as a modern game, running on consumer hardware" is the same thing as "giant datacenter eating multiple cities' worth of power to run a chatbot that's always wrong". I've seen people malding over just the thought of a modder using text to speech that's slightly less bad than traditional text to speech, like a hobbyist making a free piece of art using something that now also runs locally to fill in gaps in their skillset is the same as a corporation cutting down on voice acting.

Like the water's been so muddied that people who are rightfully disgusted at all this obscene waste to make shitty chatbots that are awful and are being pushed by the literal worst people alive to replace workers (despite not actually being able to) and make everything worse, and annoyed by people spamming low effort slop that's the equivalent of talking about a weird dream they had mixed with that shitty 3d CGI slop inexpertly made in poser or daz3d and presented as poorly framed single images that flooded everything when those were new and that's still around in annoying quantities, and extend that to anything that's been so much as touched in any way by any sort of AI-related system.

Random aside, but I just realized the other day how generative AI has ruined the whole vibe of any genre where part of the conceit is just going for vibes over internally consistent logic, like classic sci-fi and fantasy art or anything trying to evoke dreamlike nonsense vibes, because now anything that doesn't line up or make sense or is just there to evoke a certain vibe becomes a smoking gun that an entire piece is empty nonsense.

Incorrect. If it wasn't part of the corpo slop machine, the corpo slop machine would 'remember' about copyright and sue AI indies into oblivion to kill it or take it over.

I don't see how stuff like that could ever give a leg up to independent productions. It's making media production more capital intensive.