This reminds me of a funny story a friend of mine told me. He does real time projection mapping (like when they project vines growing up the DisneyLand Castle and stuff like that) and he’s been fighting off a very regular, very boring job.
Basically he’s been hired to project rooms, like kitchens or living rooms on a cylinder someone is standing inside of while they are filmed performing a repetitive series of mundane actions. Like they’ll project a series of different kitchen backgrounds behind someone and they are instructed to pantomime cracking an egg over and over again, or vacuuming, or whatever. The talent does this over and over until they think they’re good and then they move on the next scene.
They’re doing this with multiple cylinders per location, apparently at multiple locations around the country for 8 hour shifts in five week chunks.
He said it is mind numbingly boring for everyone involved PLUS it’s not local so he has to stay at a hotel for the week for 5 weeks at a time. If he has anything else going on or even might have something else going on he turns it down but they keep asking and the money isn’t bad. They told him/didn’t officially tell him it’s for training AI.
We’re really heading for the most boring dystopia ever.
I was thinking the projections would be some kind of robbery prevention for people’s second, third, eighth homes: project a guy cracking eggs in your kitchen while you are away so people think you are home.
This is pure code but it is quite easy to run if you know how to run conda environments…Although I’m pretty sure there will be a comfyui node for this.
Important thing is how vram heavy this is, hopefully they release a fp8 or quantized model in order to run the inference on lower vram usage, otherwise you won’t be able to run this on standar resolutions, you can see there that for a 720p you need 33gb vram. So think of 2k or 4k plates and higher… You’ll need at least 48gb vram gpu.
for those of us who aren’t quite sold on the benefits of AI, I recommend Ed Zitron’s podcast “Better Offline” where he looks at different aspects of the Tech industry and is quite critical of the whole tech-bro economy
