Thanks, AI.
A number of iconic ZX screens (both from the 1980s and recent, like Add Mortem) animated by AI. Not sure how I feel about that. Eye candy for sure, but also if you eat too many candies you get diabetes. Takes something away from native ZX demos IMO, but an interesting experience nevertheless.
I think it's awesome!
I don't see "AI" taking anything away from this, if anything, there's countless human hours invested in producing this video, and those hours have been amplified with sophisticated tooling.
Clearly, no general-purpose AI can get anything comparable done.
@haitchfive I don't object to the technology itself :) The 'taking away' part is in that it is hard to come anywhere close to these visuals in a demo written for the platform itself (and even for a more powerful ZX Spectrum Next). So this diminishes the wow factor (or what's left ot it) for the native, realtime demos...
Philosophically, perhaps demomaking as a whole has been undercut like this ever since videos became ubiquitous. Realtime aspect only matters when it is interactive I guess.
@rcl I may be wrong but I thought that saying "Thanks AI" and "made by AI" kind warranted the commentary.
And it's not "made by AI", that's just a fact.
It's really not. It's perfectly possible to say something like: "I suspect this thing that turns me off has a component of AI somewhere in the process, but I can't truthfully assert where or how much".
Not the same punch.
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