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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOP
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    Amazon used an AI-generated image as a cover for 1922ā€™s Nosferatu, and it got publicly torn apart on Twitter:

    On a personal note, it feels to me like any use of AI, regardless of context, is gonna be treated as a public slight against artists, if not art as a concept going forward. Arguably, it already has been treated that way for a while.

    You want me to point to a high-profile example of this kinda thing, Iā€™d say Eagan Tilghman provided a textbook example a year ago, after his Scooby Doo/FNAF fan crossover (a VA redub came out a year later BTW) accidentally ignited a major controversy over AI and nearly got him blacklisted from animation.

    I specifically bring this up because Tilghman wasnā€™t some random CEO or big-name animator - he was just some random college student making a non-profit passion project with basically zero budget or connections. It speaks volumes about how artists view AI that even someone like him got raked over the coals for using it.

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      Unfortunately itā€™s the small artists who are most open and vulnerable to criticism. Amazon can probably impose this kind of shit on everyone through sheer persistence

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      ffs itā€™s in public domain just use a still from the staircase silhouette like everyone else

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      What do they mean by ā€œin colorā€? If itā€™s just various tints throughout the film thatā€™s normal and cool. If they mean full on colourised thatā€™s messed up.