I responded to a lot of comments here in the latest Patrick Replies episode over on the second channel: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNxiq8iLq7aWj4E.html

I saw a tweet saying "AI can't make art because it doesn't get horny and you have to be full of desire to make art" and that one rattles around my brain like a tin can in a washing machine

Super cool that we've got the robots doing the writing and art and poetry whilst we do all the menial shitty manual labour.

"It sucked in a way that only a human can suck." I am inspired.

The most hilarious theory about AI "art" is that it is rapidly making itself worse. AI art is oversaturating the crops of links on websites that generative art is pulling from to train their models. This is causing newer models to replicate the mistakes found in the AI art it finds. This is compounded by the fact that the models are hard to "detrain", once that crap is in their algorithms it's stuck there.

Hot take: the real reason studio execs are so horny for AI is because they've finally found someone they can relate to: a shameless, plagiarising, cliche-spouting, soulless machine that has literally no idea what it's talking about.

The "great artists steal" is a misquote from T. S. Eliot, and the original one makes tones of sense in relation to AI: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

It's really sad that the general devaluation of art has come to this point. And I remember I was so excited when the "shoot a day in your life wes anderson style" trend went viral because I saw people not in the field doing an exercise of cinematography. It's so beautiful when people not accustomed to do art try to, and I think that perhaps that integration with the everyday can make a shift in how the general public treat the art

The part where you mention he used AI just to come up with the idea made me want to break something.

This is great content.

I think the whole AI problem is just a symptom of the bigger problem, which is that our society has a terrible relationship with art. Most people don’t understand the value of it, and corporations treat it like a conveyor belt. Plenty of people don’t even see being an artist as a real job. Until that problem gets addressed, there’ll be some new problem around every corner that all feel like the current AI one.

You unlocked a memory for me. I watched that X-men parody years ago, but found this channel's video essays entirely separately just a few weeks ago. I'd completely forgotten about that parody video and would have never guessed it was you who'd made it.

The gag about all this is that the AI needs constant annotation through Remotasks, where humans feed the AI by responding to and rating tasks for cents on the dollar. They’re the reason the AI even looks and reads as human, and it’s getting worse because those humans are using AI to annotate.

Studio executive attempting to replace everyone with A.I. but ends up just replacing themselves also sounds like a great premise for a Twilight Zone or Black Mirror episode.

Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

A Big element of the grift, is the courses curious refuge are selling. The amount of AI related KZfaq channels and courses that have popped up are insane as well.

I totally agree with the "A.I. is a grift" sentiment. It essentially allows lazy people to come up with an approximation of something, when they don't want to expend the effort to learn how to do the thing they want to do, and then to do it. "Art" without artistry isn't really art, now, is it?

AI stopping us from having patrick talk about tom cruise’s hair for 30min will forever be known as one of humanity’s greatest disasters

AI "artwork" is already beginning to crowd out images on Pinterest. The most annoying part is that selecting the images to determine whether they are AI-generated seems to register with Pinterest as "liking" them, and it constantly tries to feed you more and more of them. You are forced to actively select them to hide them- and when it asks you why, it doesn't even let you say "because I do not want an AI-generated image".

My sister is a medical doctor. I have a doctorate in computer science. As kids, we would rib each other in a good-natured way about whose profession was better (FYI, it's hers; I love my field but...yah). Anyway, after going back and forth teasing each other numerous times one of my responses was "My field is better because it will gradually replace the need for you human doctors." She was extremely dismissive about this, saying that no computer could understand people the way another human could and that you would always need a human doctor in the mix. To which my response was, "You're not looking at this right. It isn't about doing everything a doctor does, it's about making each doctor vastly more efficient at doing whatever it is that they're doing so that in the net you let a single doctor do what used to require 4 or 5 doctors or more." This exact scenario is what killed the legal profession, taking it from one of the most prestigious fields in the country to a complete dead end field with massive unemployment in less than a single generation. It happened so suddenly in law that television hasn't even caught on to this fact yet and still makes legal dramas like Suits that use views of the legal profession that haven 't been true for 10 years, minimum. You know when they show the young lawyer workin' on a big case late at night with a giant cup o' coffee and legal books spread all around them? Complete bullsh*t. It's such an iconic scene that movies and shows can't help going back to it, but legal research today is done by one person (or maybe a few) with a computer in a few percent of the time it used to take. That's what killed the profession; you just don't need as many lawyers now to perform legal research, traditionally one of the most labor intensive aspects of the job. Anyway, my sister and I break off the ribbing and time moves on, like four years later I get a call from my sister at a medical convention. "Oh my god," she says out of the blue, "you were right." She proceeds to describe a bunch of new products aimed at hospitals that will completely alter the landscape of life in a hospital, allowing each doctor to see many, many times more patients without a bunch of extra work by the doctor. And she's felt that fact professionally since. Medicine is funny, most of the shortage of doctors you might hear about is about non-lucrative underserved markets, but in the major markets there are already oversupplies of doctors that have difficulty finding jobs. It's not as bad as in legal, but it's steadily heading there. I bring all this up because this is the reality descending on the entertainment industry. It isn't about the ML that can automate some repetitive tasks, although you could think of that as the precursor to what AI is about to do. The real thing that is about to happen is context-aware AI manipulation. I don't mean some idiot telling an LLM to write him a script. I mean a digital assistant that you can tell "I need to punch this script up with some comedy" that can then search through a script and identify the likely places where you could insert or alter jokes along with a corresponding set of links to topical stories or situations that might be good research to assist you, so that a talented writer can work through the job so efficiently that what might have taken weeks can now be done in a single day. And yah, also digital camera operators to suggest shot framing, lighting, special effects, digital actors and 3D modeling; these things will all be gradually introduced. Not to outright eliminate the need for human professionals to do those jobs, but to make each one much more efficient and the entire process vastly less expensive so that making entertainment is much more approachable to an ever larger number of people. It's not about removing people all together, it's about just not needing anywhere as many of them while still allowing for the application of essential human creativity. This ability to not just do things, but to comprehend why a person is doing them and intelligently assist them is doing them is the real revolution AI is about to start rolling out. I know this post is getting a little long, but one more illustrative example to highlight the point I'm making. My employer occasionally brings in big wigs from other corporations to give talks. This guy from IBM came in to talk about the new LLM AI models and emerging use cases and he talked about factory automation. I'm talking about those robots that assemble cars or rapidly construct candy bars or whatever. Turns out, according to him, one of the biggest drawbacks to automation like that is paradoxically the labor requirements. See, you don't think about it when you watch a little clip of those robot arms moving faster than your eyes can track perfectly assembling a Toyota on an assembly line, but an absurdly vast amount of labor from people like me had to go into creating the ML that powers those robots. They have to be taught what to do, what not to do, when to do it, what conditions create exceptions. Little flaws have to be worked out and smoothed before you get to that impressive clip. It's really, really expensive and time consuming, which helps explain why a company like Tesla, even after taking over a working auto factory, still struggled with a largely manual process of car assembly for years. But here's the catch: it turns out that when you can feed a model a document of requirements telling it what needs to happen at each stage and it can do all that work translating that into digital logic in seconds, you can build models that create near-perfect first passes of the programming for those robots in a day when it used to take an army of developers months or even years. Doesn't even matter if it's not perfect, because it took you straight to the 90% completed point in a day! And with a good model design that allows for an iterative process of refinement...well, let's just say that cheap labor in places like China will over the next decade feel less and less appealing for manufacturing. Not that some companies won't continue to approach production that way, of course, but the point is again that it doesn't eliminate the need for highly trained professionals completely, it just means you need less and less of them every year as the new tools roll out and industries begin to see their peers utilizing it effectively.

Agree that more people should watch A.I. by Spielberg. It definitely fell off the radar whenever people talk about great Spielberg films or science fiction films.

The video trend of people turning their mundane tasks homages to Wes Anderson was pretty cool and the people who made them admitted how hard it was to find outfit's and perfectly place their cameras to capture the symmetrical shots. It was a funny trend and it at least involved people putting creativity into their videos and didn't harm anyone.

This is what happens when the future is only motivated through companies with profit in mind

As much as I laughed at the joke about the WB execs losing their job to AI it should be noted that AI being used to decide what to make is just as bad as having AI write scripts. AI will choose even more recognizable IP movies and we'll get even less original ideas on the big screen.

If it’s any consolation, I’d like to say that I had no idea that the trend of west Anderson parodies started out as an AI trend. On my Instagram feed I saw many many people creating west Anderson parodies of their daily life or studies or simple tasks, people who decided that they wanted, like the x-men parody, to imitate his style with their own little projects. Whether or not they had the same level of thought may be debated but I do believe that it’s important to notice that even still in the light of this ai trend there were people who decided they could do it without it’s help.

Kitsch is the only thing being democratized here. Ya know when you're in a gift shop on vacation and there is all this stuff, like dishes with wolves on them or something like that. It's just like that. Slap something that looks like art onto another thing and sell it to someone. Complete Kitsch

My main takeaway from this is if Wes Anderson did direct a Lord of the Rings movie it would probably be called The Prancing Pony.

I don't want a computer to tell me a story. I just don't.

Patrick supporting the picket line like the true H Willems he is👍

Just last week I thought to myself "Isn't it funny that Patrick (H) Willems did that Wes Anderson x-men sketch and it was really cool and clearly a lot of effort went into it and this whole AI nonsense is just taking one cool idea and kicking it until it can't move anymore" and here I am a week later watching this vid like a nostradamus of some sort.

Adrian Brody as Nightcrawler sounds kind of amazing NGL.

I bet the AI chose Quicksilver because there was a lot of talk about his cameo appearance in WandaVision back in 2021 (which is about as recent as ChatGPT's knowledge base gets).

AI replicates filmakers' aesthetics the same way South Park handles celebrity impersonations.

So hearing the idea that "trailers aren't art because they're marketing" set me off because all the best, most memorable ads have had an artistic charisma to them. Like there are a ton of projects that have more artistic intent put into their marketing than the actual end product

I work as a 3d artist and I constantly look for reference to practice and improve my sculpts now I have to deep dive into images to see if they are real or ai generated, there are so many ai skulls with inaccurate proportions, shapes and anatomical structures. So now i have to spend time finding credible images and thanks to googles patented enshitification of search most searches just bring me back to ai images because the internet is flooded with them. I might actually go out and start a bone collection so i have accurate references.

Man, I love how seriously you take your work. It shows and it keeps me coming back. I feel the need to be the same way and the platform should not determine the level of quality.

When those AI Wes Anderson parodies first started popping up on my Instagram feed and KZfaq recommendations I just raised an eyebrow and went “Huh, that’s kinda neat, I guess I can see a version of Lord of the Rings with this cast.” But at this point any sight of these soulless husks triggers a visceral disgust

I've been a fan of your essays for a while now. Over the years, I've watched you get better and better at this. I've seen you get more comfortable on camera (you're actually quite good at this now!) and more creative with your filmmaking. You've gone from a guy talking about film to a guy making film about film (I know that's a bit pointyheaded, but what can I say? It's true). Watching that growth over all this time... it's really rewarding to witness. You've taught me things. Your point of view has broadened my own... and I sincerely appreciate that. And now? I gotta say. I'm even more excited. You're using this platform, and the success that's come from it, to support people who need it. You're not making polemics, or obnoxious hot takes. You're thoughtfully and entertainingly breaking down a thing that is, and helping us see what it means for our culture, and for actual people. You're doing something not just smart, or funny, or interesting... you're doing something good. You're a good guy. And the crew (HI EMMA!) who helps you? They're good too. You're all actually, somehow, amid all of this [gestures wildly at the internet] accomplishing something. I really admire you all for it. Just wanted to thank you guys for that. :)

The voice all the Wes Anderson AI rip-off videos use is Bob Balaban. He was the narrator of Moonrise Kingdom. Now it seems to have become a default voice on TikTok videos for some reason. I hope he's getting paid for this or has good lawyers.

32:28 - As a kid, this is the thing I'd drew the most. I called them 'dungeons'.. basically rooms/landscapes full of spikes, with wild animals covered in spikes, vehicles/weapons covered in spikes, spikes on spikes. Good times.

i think that's the paradox here : they copy Wes Anderson based on these tricks, but when you know Wes Anderson's work, you know that it is more than just shots and filters. Wes Anderson always tells a story, and in the most beautiful way, he's a dedicated director who loves what he's doing, and i can feel this love throughout the entire movie.And watching his movie is always an experience. Go Wes Anderson!!!

*Frank Zappa - "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."*

New, better, faster technologies never catch on...

I could see Wes Anderson doing The Hobbit, actually. The Hobbit is pretty light and comedic to begin with, but involves several tragic figures, and one of the main characters is basically dealing with the grief of his entire race, not just his own, and it makes him stubborn and prone to lashing out. Anderson doesn't do, like, fight-y action all that much but The Hobbit's action is mostly chase scenes (sometimes chases with a little fighting going on in the background), and Anderson loves finding fun ways to have the camera follow people when they're running. Only two acts of outright violence are essential to the plot, one of which happens largely in the background (in the book, the Battle of Five Armies is handled in like a single page). The other moment is a dude being told where to shoot a dragon using his favorite arrow by a bird he just happens to be able to understand because that's just a thing people from his hometown can do. Pretty sure Wes Anderson can swing *that* particular scene.

These AI videos are like some sort of diet candy that just makes me want to watch someone do it well. A video that doesn't actually scratch the itch, just points out that it sure would be nice to see something like this.

One day, you’ll get to say “hey Siri, I feel like game of thrones, please start season 7 but fix the writing and add some more nudity”

since 2021 i've dialled back posting my sketches online because someone will always chuck them in ai and be like "i improved the shading", i dont want my shading to be hyperrealistic, i hate it

You and Adam Conover have had the best grasp of how large language processors cannot replace artists and writers effectively. And, quite frankly *why would we want it to?* I'm glad I have a machine to replace the many hours of labor I would have to spend washing my clothes, I don't want a machine who plays my guitar for me. Some people actually tried to use a machine learning program to finish Beethoven's 10th symphony by feeding it all of his work and..surprise! It sucked. Beethoven was such an innovator, there is no way to know what his *next* symphony would sound like.

"That has existed for 20 years, and it's called the Royal Tenenbaums." Thank you! That was my first reaction, too.

How did it take so long for me to find your channel?? This is gold. The humor. The editing. Even the vibes! It's all perfection.

As someone who is passionate about film, and wants to study film. This breaks my heart.

22:17 emma's thumbs up of approval at that disaster is the kind of thumbs up we need sometimes in life

Thank you. I feel so depressed by these blatant hype cycles tech companies grift off for months at a time until the goldfish starts again with something different. SaaS, Streaming, Metaverse, Crypto, NFTs, and now AI continues the trend of a insulated VC-driven bubbles that grow to insane amounts before they burst and everyone moves on. I read stories every few months of a company that existed for 3 weeks getting billion dollar valuations after grafting the latest trend to their company vision. I'm sick of hearing about how 'x thing will disrupt the world as we know it'!

The sad thing is exactly what you mention, but in digital artists community. I myself experienced this, as well as all other artists, the dread when your art is still "worse" in "quality" than AI. Yeah, it includes our own ideas, our own feelings, but for any platform, if you want to pursue art, all the AI art slowly kills not the platform, but the spirit of all the new generation. Thank you for the video, it's very nice to have reminders what exactly AI will never replicate

The best thing about AI Wes Anderson Star Wars is that it made me imagine Willem Dafoe as Tarkin.

The thing that unsettles me the most is how incestuous the whole thing is, with each successive one not imitating the original but rather the latest ai Wes Anderson hackjob. It's terrifying to think that these things are shaping the way that bottom-feeders on the internet see Wes Anderson more than his own movies.

I don’t think AI should ever be used to replace the arts. What a bleak world that would be

Getting a group of friends together to do something is so last century. This century is all about continuous stimulation from your phone

AI couldn't make this, if it could, it wouldnt be nearly as entertaining. Something about knowing human effort was put into something.

I remember loving that Wes Anderson X-Men video so much because you could absolutely see the work that went into it. It actually made me really want to see him take on those characters because it certainly would deviate from the source material, but in a way that would probably have it's own charm that still be really entertaining in it's own way. These A.I. "trailers" though do feel soulless, but they're also kind of just depressing. There are interesting things to come out of them visually when it comes to mashing up concepts, but even then it sort of makes trying to make actual art feel kind of pointless in a way. Kind of makes me sick how many times I've seen "80's dark fantasy ____" pop up and you know someone basically just typed that and called it a day. There wasn't really any work put into it.

The caveat that Patrick included about how “AI” will soon be able to replace C-Suite executives making shitty film decisions is honestly one I didn’t consider but is so much more of a reality. Like when you think about it, what’s more suited to cold, unfeeling collections of code: the inimitable creativity of human beings and the spirit of collaboration? Or decisions that weigh risk and reward and do multiple massive calculations of finances and predict trends? Maybe if Bob Iger or David Zaslav were threatened with the idea of them becoming obsolete they’d see things differently. I can’t say which I’d prefer honestly, a group of cold-blooded lizard-humans force-feeding me marvel movies until I asphyxiate or “AI” generated garbage that’s the exact same thing but with weird fucking hands.

feeling blessed to have stumbled across your channel! this video is so full of care and personal touch

100% agree. Thanks for calling this out.

If the budget allows, i think a lot of us would love an updated version of Patrick (H) Willems' Wes Anderson's X Men!

There is an irony there: I strongly believe that the only people that could really use AI's work to making art are artists themselves.

This depressed me so much but I needed to see it. Thanks again Patricio. Greetings from Colombia! I love you

I love the passion that you put into making this content. Thank you Patrick!!!

Great video, you talking about the difference between AI generated content vs creativity really hit home to me. I spent this past summer creating a homage to "The West Wing" by making a short film of the show if it took place in a college physics department (professionally I'm a physicist). I spent a month just playing around with drafting a script that was playing tribute to the show (not making fun of it) while also seeing if I could create a original narrative while hitting the beats of "walk and talk", "inspirational speech", team of passionate people working together to fix a problem, and a character like Josh that is somewhat of a disorder mess and over confident in his abilities. Than it took a month to film while constantly revising the script. All we were doing was familiar simple shots of people walking and talking and standing and talking, not nearly as much craftsman ship and skills as going into your X-Men short. While we were filming, one of my cast members gain a ChatGPT from her research group, and we jokingly asked it to generate a script for Josh and Donna from West Wing if they were discusing physics. ChatGPT did, we laughed when we read it, but not because of how great it was, the script ChatGPT made was somewhat hollow and sad. A lot of the physics jokes seemed recycle, and didn't really add anything new, just hitting the beats of arguing and than a "oh well, I really appreciate you, life is good" conclusion that was just awkwardly inserted in. It felt like an imitation of an imitation of what people think tv is. It left me somewhat sad thinking some people might actually make scripts to shoot this way and probably just get a lot more interest "AI generated Video" than anything my team could make after months of hard work. More seriously, there's even professor where I work who have decided to just use ChatGPT to create their assignments, or exams, or even solutions for their classes instead of creating their own teaching documents. I kind of wish this would be a fad, but I don't think it's going to be. This tool is going to help people who are prone to cut corners in every field are going to cut corners even more easily, it's really sad for both professional and creative work.

A.I content is the quintessential expression of 'agile methodology' in the arts. When a sales person reaches out to some executive and goes "Don't you hate those shitty artists and creators not doing what you want, when you want it? Don't you hate timelines and scope?!"

Brilliant and so eloquently explained. We live in scary times, unfortunately that train has left the station and I don’t think we can stop it… great video 👏🏾👍🏾🙌🏾

I couldn't help but imagine some pre industrial craftsman bemoaning the rise of machines while listening to the intro. Whats crazy is potentially how fast these changes can sweep in and make whole swathes of society redundant at once. I fear that AI may be the kerplunk stick that makes this version of society fall apart, mostly cos it will undermine the econmy so rapidly and devalue humans and their work.

Emma is such a lovely part of your newer videos. Her style of comedy fits your videos so well. :)

Steal like an Artist is a great book that I read when I was younger that talks about taking the things that inspire you and blending them into something new that's wholly your own. It's really disheartening to see that motto used as justification for straight up theft by machines that can never be artists or people that can never have any kind of ownership over the plagiarized things they make.

I love that comment near the end: "If you're offended by my comments, don't be! Because you didn't actually do any of the work, so I'm not criticizing your effort" And yeah I hate the trend of calling AI work "Democratizing X field". Like you said, cheap filming equipment, software, and internet tutorials have done that for basically every field under the sun. All it's doing is allowing people who don't want to put in *any* effort into something, still create something. Like I can't understand how someone can basically just cycle through a bunch of programs that generate content for them, and then somehow act as if they actually meaningfully had an influence on that content. And yeah a big problem is just big corporations and general tech bros looking to cut costs and assuming that just because an "AI" can put out something resembling a script, that means that now they can cut out all those expensive writers and call it a day.

It's fun hearing all the same things about AI musicians said about synthesizers then samplers then DAWs...artists said about cameras, then photoshop then CGI....

What AI does with Wes Anderson is similar to what many people do with Martin Luther King, who they turned into a cartoonish meme that can only recall one line from “I Had a Dream.”

There’s a company in China who has an AI “woman” as their CEO, making decisions for the company and apparently when it was announced, their stock price went up. Some people have a lot of faith in “AI” aka machine learning. It’s called NetDragon, and a company called Hunna has also done this from what I just read. Wild times.

Well if the robots replace the executives the executives will still be getting the money, I am certain

*The plan:* Invent AI to do all the mundane work and jobs so we can all be artists and explore and express our inner universe. *The execution:*

if i asked an internet chatbot to make my video for me and it did everything from coming up with the concept to the script to all of the actual content in the video i wouldn't be stupid enough to call that "my" video.

I'm an art school student doing an animation degree and over the past year, me and all of my classmates have lived in fear that we're going to be replaced and out of jobs before we even have the chance to get any. And honestly I still feel that fear so I appreciate this video a lot, it's very incisive about the exact things I'm worried about. The AI Patrick from your Nebula video will haunt me until my dying days. Also I just want to say that Emma is an absolute star and I am unbearably delighted to see her so present in the new season!

Props for not saying Nebula is _your_ streaming service

Love this video, but the best part was "It sucked in a human way." That's just humanly brilliant!

Something I see comun in this "AI bros" are what they really want to do, low effort money. If you are an artist you are in love with the procces, you love recording, singing, wirting or drawing. If you are an artist you love using time on your life learning and enjoing other artist. If you are an artist you will make art your life.

I kind of miss when ai generated content was a bit glitchier, because: 1. it wasn't yet an existential threat to human art, and 2. It sort of had a dreamlike (or nightmarelike) quality to it all. Most AI generated stuff now just seems... empty.

this guy is the perfect combination of the vsauce guy and that british bald guy from "toptenz" and "today i found out", you know... that guy

I feel like the universe (or maybe you Patrick) is talking to me. Both on this video and on your more recent video about the death of Cinema, when you talk about Disney remakes you show shots from Will Smith as Gennie in Aladdin, and in both videos you particularly use shots I animated while at ILM! I just found your channel and am enjoying your videos! I totally agree with you (even if I'm another cog in the machine producing these industry killing blockbusters).

Thank you for making this. Another important thing to mention is that self-learning "A.I"cannot, and will never in its current form, partake in any kind of discourse. This is because it does not use language like we do. We attach a value judgement to what it spits out. We save it, or send a signal it did a good job, but never does A.I do this itself. While it may sound like a minor thing: discourse is required for new trends to emerge and new styles to challenge existing styles. Without discourse, art simply cannot happen. Yesterday I heard a guy say A.I will have a "market expanding effect" when it comes to film making. And sure, while it may scathe off development time and maybe help us crank out more films in a shorter time frame, it cannot escape the fact we will get sick and tired of the same old stuff. We see it with super hero movies right now. Not even the most perfect reiteration of the genre will save a studio from us getting tired of it at some point. A.I will simply accelerate that oversaturation. That new thing we inevitably want is something it can never provide, because it does not use language to express itself and therefore can never partake in the discourse of what's next. That market expansion that guy talked about will ultimately look more like a boom/bust cycle, with artists that cause a boom, and A.I grinding it down to a bust.

The AI Wes Anderson things honestly feel nothing like Wes Anderson's actual movies

Really interesting and informative :) great job!

If AI is used by prompts, what this really means is that the people teaching AI about Wes Anderson movies, didn't understand Wes Anderson films; thus the bad Wes Anderson AI copies, are essentially no different than that score of Star Wars clones we got in the late late 70's and early 80's that didn't understand why Star Wars was a success, and that we see whenever Hollywood tries to duplicate the success of any popular movie. Remember all the movies that tried unsuccessfully to copy Raiders, or James Bond, or Evangelion. Hacks in the industry are using tools the same way they always have, but this method is getting a lot more attention because AI is a lot more scarier to people.

Trailer Making is an art form. To this day I regularly watch the final botw Trailer, because someone created something truly special.

I had a good laugh when that AI filmmaker guy said that these tools democratize storytelling and allows people to express creativity. It's pretty rich coming from the guy who had AI write the script for those videos. Makes you wonder how exactly was he creative, maybe using AI for everything was the creative idea lol.

I am meaning to fix an omelette with coconut milk and fines herbes. This is my first omelette in 76+ years.

44:29 I'm living for that coaster slide

This video finally convinced me to get Nebula. It was the perfect storm of worrying about creatives and AI, compounded by the strikes and worries that they have there, Matt Colville talking on a stream a while back about how production companies used to be led by people who cared about movies (like Pat also mentioned), and the deal on the yearly plan.

even the lowest budget parody has more charm than these AI generated things

In a way, I feel that this continuous flow of content made me feel worthless. I always wanted to be an artist but watching that all the successful people on KZfaq are reactors or streamers doing the bare minimum and seeing AI making art now, I just feel incapable of making that much videos in such a short amount of time. When everything can be seen as productive or labour i kinda stopped caring. This video reminds me that I do not need to exploit myself and others in order to achieve this constant demand of productivity, I can just enjoy doing silly stuff like your wes anderson video and be fine with that

I HATE when people do something “like David Lynch” but it’s just nonsense. Lynch works a lot in the genre of American Gothic, and the surrealism is to heighten a sense of anxiety about something being really wrong happening here. Always always bothers me when it’s just random.

My experience with A.I. writing resulted in a similar conclusion. The trick is that you need to actually be familiar with the artist that's being copied or you might be tricked into thinking that the A.I. is doing something better than it is. My experience was a mildly regrettable one where I was a bit harsh to a friend of mine who was showing me how far A.I. had come. I said, "Have it write something in the style of Louis L'Amour." It did. Well, it tried. I was already defensive, and doubly so because I'd previously thought A.I. could _not_ do something so detailed. Now I was discovering it could actually write stories, albeit, as I found out, exceptionally shallow ones that may or may not actually have logical progression. But anyway, the point is that it didn't really copy Louis L'Amour. It copied stereotypical Western novel tropes, but utterly failed in cadence, vocabulary and character style. It read like a beginner writer making a parody of the genre. The same thing seems to have happened here. It has the _trappings_ of a Wes Anderson movie, but outside of the transient amusement it provides to see someone's recognizable style transposed over something unrelated, there's very little to actually care about here. To sum up my opinion of A.I. works: Dry. Like the Wes Anderson-style X-men clip in this video, there's no depth to it, no real point, no indication of true insight into the style, the characters, a sense of humor, or anything else that might grab one's attention. Even the visual style was repetitive and quickly lost meaning.