So you think AI isn't going to take your job?

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Reminds me of the cat scene in Wag the Dog. “I hate it when they meddle.”

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and you commercial guys are fucked too.

It’s kind of sad because Brandon Sanderson (the author that provided this dude with the material to break into prompts and make his video) posted this up just five days ago.

“That’s the great thing about art–we define it, and we give it meaning. The machines can spit out manuscript after manuscript after manuscript. They can pile them to the pillars of heaven itself. But all we have to do is say “No.” If we do, they lose. John Henry couldn’t ultimately stop the steam-powered machine, but we can fight the battle, and we can win–because we get to choose what victory looks like.

What is art? Art is what we define it to be.

Why do we make art?

Well, remember, art is not just the story. It is not just the painting or the sculpture or whatever else you love to create. It’s also the process of creation and what that process does to you. We make art because we can’t help it. It’s part of us.”

I don’t know maybe Brandon Sanderson would enjoy this. Maybe not. I lean towards maybe not. Just interesting. The Hidden Cost of AI Art: Brandon Sanderson's Keynote

Sorry folks, our careers are “inefficient.”

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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Every time a new model drops.. I hear ‘it’s over!’ 
 ‘we’re doomed’ 
 meanwhile, I’ve rarely been more busy than last 16 months
 I am rather exited, using ai tools every day and it allows me to actually spend more time on the creative and storytelling part of the job, faster iterations, quickly flesh out visual ideas.. and then take it into Flame to lift it even further.

Idk.. I’m not too afraid for our jobs..

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Seems more like the vfx supervisors who were comparing the original grain structure with my comped elements are going to be out of a job.

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Which of these statements is false?

In the future there won’t be a need for actors?

In the future there won’t be a need for VFX artists?

If your answer is no for either, you are wrong.

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This is like your answer @Ton about how to tell clients their answer is shit.
This is a belief.
Like all hypothetical beliefs @ALan’s statement has the potential to be 100% true, 100% false or somewhere in-between.

Obviously the AI future requires more energy than can currently be generated or transported, so perhaps there will just be tens of thousands of vfx bodies to bulldoze and burn to heat those big turbines to make those surfing cat videos?

There was some movie about this kind of thing
 human bodies powering machines and synthetic sentience
 VFX dependant movie
 what was it called?

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One good thing for us all to remember during this supposed AI backlash is that artists could band together and create some kind of collective bargaining group.
Unlike the Actors guild or the Directors guild or the Producers guild there is a possibility that the technologically informed could create an opportunity for a successful team effort.
Or we could scatter and be picked off by legal and economic snipers again


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I see a next to zero chance of any kind of effective and strong union for VFX. The economics and social consequences might be rational to argue for it, but the politics right now are quite anti-union. And it’s been 30 years since we started. We’re the late-comers to the game, and “sorry folks, park’s closed!”

Plus, VFX artists are generally better at sitting alone than organizing. :wink:

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The actors one! Live theater! And there you have it, I have outriddled you, you little sphinx! That’s the safe haven by the way, AI proof, don’t study the trades, kids, learn you soliloquizing. The future is actors doing Shakespeare for plumbers. Everyone else is just starving and launching desperate assaults on various billionaire bunkers

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Please do let us know how you’re generating revenue from live theater, thanks.

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I don’t need to generate revenue. That’s what I’ve learned from these AI companies

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So well played.

So true.

And also a dead end. When the AI bubble crashes, which it will as it did with dot com, the illusion of financial viability will be stripped away, and a whole lot of people will lose their jobs, as they did then.

“There is no there there.” There is not enough sustainable capital influx to make the costs not higher than the revenue. It’s been subsidized by venture capitalists so far, but there will be a point when they ask to see their rent checks, and they won’t be there, because no one is actually paying for it.

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Aren’t you in the Art Director’s Guild or something?