alt Hacker NewsTechnically it's amazing that this is possible at all. Yet I don't see how the world is better off for it on net. Aside from eliminating jobs in FX/filming/acting/set design/etc, what do we really gain? Amateur filmmakers can be more powerful? How about we put the same money into a fund for filmmakers to access. The negatives are plentiful, from the mundane reduction of our media to monolithic simulacra to putting the nail in the coffin for truth to exist unchallenged, let alone the 'fine tunes' that will continue to come for deepfakes that are literal (sexual) harassment.
Humans are not built for this power to be in the hands of everyone with low friction.
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I've taken to calling the digital artists I work with "the old masters" in light of the flood of inexpert, low effort AGI content. And they do use generative AI, pretty liberally for concept work and reference, but they know what they're doing and can turn it into great things.
I thought we lost a lot in the transition from analog to digital media, but that doesn't mean there's not a peak to any modern craft, just that there hasn't been a unified or named movement highlighting the best and worst, outside of social media algorithms.
Humans are not built for this power to be in the hands of everyone with low friction
Now we have this with social media, everyone is their own little FSB propaganda machine…yay
> Amateur filmmakers can be more powerful?
YouTube turned everyone into broadcasters. Sora could help bring countless untold stories to life, straight from the imagination.
> Humans are not built for this power to be in the hands of everyone with low friction.
Why is having power concentrated in few hands better?