beetlejuice's ghoulish wifeI'm not that concerned about like rogue AI destroying humanity but I'm scared shitless of the human costs of a bunch of business geeks trying to shoehorn AI into every space of human endeavor as a hedge against workers (who they despise)
Something that really strikes me about people posting like "Hollywood is OVER!!!" over some weird uncanny valley nightmare video is - I genuinely do not believe these people understand that when directors or writers or illustrators have creative visions they want control over how those ideas are actualized. That the process of changing an idea into a piece of art is where the art COMES FROM
It reminds me a lot of when I took film classes and there was always a kid who was really dismissive of close readings of films - they'd be like, "am I supposed to believe that it's supposed to MEAN something that there's oranges in the GODFATHER" and its like, yeah, dude! Nothing on screen in a movie is an accident! A bunch of people have been paid to think about everything you see in a movie!
Anguirus@mark this was a gradual realization that came to me over many years. My lifelong enthusiasm for the creative process of motion pictures had to fight through the layers of snottiness that critical and Internet culture paved over me.
Now I’m routinely shocked by people who treat massive creative labors involving thousands of people as so shallow as to be devoid of any literary merit.
@mark there are certainly major motion pictures that I find misbegotten—PROMETHEUS springs immediately to mind—but there are still incredible works of art and moments of drama as part of that whole. TRANSFORMERS, a franchise many would find misbegotten, has intricate depths of detail and history.