Oh, *Great*. AI’s Ruining Another Industry.
Right, so apparently Hollywood’s decided it’s not enough to just churn out endless sequels and remakes; now they want robots doing the work too. This article details how Stability AI – those geniuses behind Stable Diffusion (you know, the one that steals art) – are trying to shove their image-generating crap down everyone’s throats in Tinseltown. They’re peddling “AI actors” and pre-visualization tools, promising cost savings and… *sigh*… “creative freedom.”
The whole thing is a clusterfuck of legal nightmares waiting to explode. Who owns the rights when an AI generates something? The studio? The artist whose work it was trained on (without permission, naturally)? Stability AI? Good luck figuring that out in court, you idiots. And don’t even get me started on the potential for deepfakes and actors being replaced entirely. Apparently some are trying to negotiate rights but honestly, good luck with that.
The article also mentions how VFX houses are already feeling the squeeze – because why pay actual people when you can have a machine spit out something “good enough”? It’s all about maximizing profit, as if we needed another reminder. They’re talking about “digital doubles” and pre-production stuff, but it’s just the beginning. Expect more layoffs, lower quality work, and a whole lot of pissed-off artists. Seriously, these people are actively trying to devalue human skill.
And naturally, everyone is pretending this isn’t going to be a complete mess. “Responsible AI development” they say. Yeah, right. Like *that’s* ever happened before. It’s just another example of tech bros thinking they can solve problems they don’t understand and creating bigger ones in the process.
Speaking of messes, I once had to debug a script written by an intern who thought using rand() for security tokens was a good idea. A *security token*. The sheer audacity… Anyway, this AI thing is going to be ten times worse than that intern’s code. Ten times.
Source: Wired – Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Hollywood