Mastodawn

I think this is actually a great analogy; cheap cameras gave us an infinite ocean of crap home videos but also Steven Spielberg and his whole generation of filmmakers grew up on backyard Super 8 cameras. Democratization of cameras didn’t kill cinema or big cine cameras; quite the opposite.

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Anthony Cowley

@yiningkarlli Many people esteem the barriers to entry they had to overcome while implicitly assigning little importance to the barriers that their forebears had to endure. I’m sure LLMs will have negative consequences to the craft, and I’m sure some things of value will be produced.