Rather suddenly, there’s been a vibe shift around artificial intelligence, the tech that’s hypnotized Wall Street and inspired cultish devotion across Silicon Valley over the past three years.
The most aggravating part is - it’s just LLMs. Diffusion is also “generative AI” and keeps getting better. A blathering device for text is, eh, marginally useful? Text has not been difficult to crank out. I would know. But pulling video from thin air is witchcraft, and it’s useful witchcraft. Worrying that studios will replace their CGI teams with A Guy is valid but probably shortsighted. The tech that turns whatever you have into whatever you describe lets any small team make anything they want, without a studio.
Video models obviate capital. You don’t need an army of animators. You don’t need sets, or actors, or whatever a key grip does. Having any of those things will improve your results - but they are now optional. We can look forward to true-to-life versions of all the weird shit that would otherwise be webcomics, fanfiction, blog posts, or what-ifs. Any Tumblr post that has people going ‘oh man, I wish they’d do this!’ can now simply be done, because they is us.
Anyway, it’ll be neat to find out what high-powered chatbots are actually good for, once all the rich frauds stop insisting it’s an oracle.
From one irrational extreme to the other.
The most aggravating part is - it’s just LLMs. Diffusion is also “generative AI” and keeps getting better. A blathering device for text is, eh, marginally useful? Text has not been difficult to crank out. I would know. But pulling video from thin air is witchcraft, and it’s useful witchcraft. Worrying that studios will replace their CGI teams with A Guy is valid but probably shortsighted. The tech that turns whatever you have into whatever you describe lets any small team make anything they want, without a studio.
Video models obviate capital. You don’t need an army of animators. You don’t need sets, or actors, or whatever a key grip does. Having any of those things will improve your results - but they are now optional. We can look forward to true-to-life versions of all the weird shit that would otherwise be webcomics, fanfiction, blog posts, or what-ifs. Any Tumblr post that has people going ‘oh man, I wish they’d do this!’ can now simply be done, because they is us.
Anyway, it’ll be neat to find out what high-powered chatbots are actually good for, once all the rich frauds stop insisting it’s an oracle.