It's so weird to me that so many people think having a career is a crucial part of our lives when careers are a modern invention. There's no reason why we couldn't find satisfaction in other things. Things we actually enjoy.

Liz Parrish did this with telomerase and a myostatin inhibitor

Seems fun. I think actually having to have it recorded in real life would be a limiting factor. Other than that, fun experiment. I could see some type of animation doing stuff like this and then having a small team of artists touch it up and draw on top of it.

As far as actual anime production, I think in-betweeners and backgrounds will be the first things crushed by AI.

I'd be curious to see this applied to manga, given the limitations that already exists like no color, sound, movements, etc. Some of these things have multiple hundreds of issues, all drawn by the same person. An AI could probably be trained on both the literal "in the frame" stuff as well layouts.

Interesting times. I want to see the first voice actors and artists who model themselves and sell it. Those would be interesting business decisions to see play out.

What I don't get is everyone's cyberdelic utopianism that we all get UBI and everyone's happy.

We're not getting UBI. UBI is a dream of the left. But in the face of rapid social, economic, cultural, climate, and technological change, people get scared, circle the wagons and shift to the right. No one really believes in liberal democracy anymore, anyway - the future will be authoritarian and right-wing. The right has always opposed UBI.

Why do you think so?

Recently read about text to video generative AIs, the whole tv show and movie industry is about to get disrupted.

The scary part is that by the time we get a final ruling on this, AI will make the decision.

Wishful thinking. The world is shifting to the right because people are scared of all the rapid economic, geopolitical, cultural and technological change happening. And the pace of change will only speed up, especially with AI. So the world will shift even farther to the right. UBI is a dream of the left. Ain't gonna happen.

I don’t know what that means

I think some of this is plausible, but it's clear you are biased. You seem like a person who's online 24/7 and doesn't really interact with non-internet people. Like what is all this stuff about anime waifus and 4chan and degeneracy? Kinda says more about what you do online than what the typical person does. The regular joe has no idea what any of this is.

Spooky model magic.

> style is just a desperate grasp that humans have something to offer that ai doesn't.

I think this is the correct assessment. But we may choose human media/products/services for other subjective reasons, like a "journey, not the destination" mindset or social connection.

Transformation and change are disruptive. When they happen really fast or on a massive scale people get scared and retreat into traditionalism and conservative thinking. All across the earth right now we're seeing the rise of right-wing nationalism and religious extremism and weird conspiracy theories. . Right now we're going through massive changes due to technology, climate change, changes in the status of women and gender roles, and shifts in global empires - Asia rising, the west struggling. Values, beliefs, traditions, systems of power and authority, are all shifting and changing super-fast and AI will accelerate that.

When things are in a high state of uncertainty and fear humans tend to circle the wagons and put strong men and dictators in charge. As I said, there are many changes happening now, but AI is probably the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Anime and animation is grueling work isn't it? Not to mention the labor practices and crunch are soul crushing. Should we be happy this grueling work is going to be phased out? The new jobs would probably be the composition, music, directing, and such. Though I only have one perspective here. I still worry for who gets displaced or how they find footing. We really need UBI already, because while legislation is slow AI is not.

Purpose made text to video models are already pretty much perfect but there are no open source ones right now.

This is like typing on a keyboard one handed compared to the efficiency that near future models will allow.

My uncle was building his house, everyone said there's no point because Jesus is coming back soon.

Well, he build the house anyway, lived there all his life and died of old age. His kids grew up and had kids in the house. The grandkids sold the house and moved away. Then the Russians bombed the shit out of it.

Moral of the story, live your life to the fullest, whatever happens, happens.

Basically in the future every animator will be a character designer and keyframe artist.

Considering the legality surrounding the datasets being used are still shaky at best, most companies probably don't want to take any risks with it.

The alternative could be to build their own datasets which are ethically sourced and thus unable to get them into possible legal trouble, but I assume it's just easier to hire individual artist and VFX specialists at that point.

Vague AF.

First victim?

Bruh, Chatgpt already taking jobs lol.

I feel like I just got dumber reading these comments.

The singularity=/=AGI

The technological singularity is about the rate of technological growth becoming infinite. Which is theoretically possible with only a bunch of narrow AIs.

"It can increase your efficiency"

So you have a shop with 50 developers. But in a few years the new AI tools increase everyone's productivity by 10. So now you only need 5 developers to produce the same output that you had before. If you're lucky/smart/well-connected/charismatic enough to be one of the remaining five, great. But the other 45 are unemployed.

And if that phenomenon happens across the economy so lots of people are unemployed, i.e., recession, then the demand for whatever it is your shop made may also go down, so some of the remaining five may also lose their job.

The current stance of the copyright office is that AI generated images cannot be copyrighted because they "lack the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim."

As soon as various motion picture companies and other countries jump on this though, they will change their tune. They're already copyrighting tons of AI generated books, they just don't know it.

Really cool but the flickering is still far from solved