“AI gives wealth access to skill while denying skill access to wealth.”
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this is wishful thinking on wealth’s part
when they have no actual skills outside of gaslighting they end up seeing this as the same they see an expert. they can't validate either way correctness and correctness doesn't really matter to them as long as they make money.
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makes sense. (although I feel like it's more of a husk of almost-skill, given how trash AI is.) damn AI...
A regular reminder that the AI companies are paying for the majority of the cost of compute, selling tokens way on the cheap.
And they have no idea how to get the production cost down.
This bubble is entirely based on (improbable) futures, and / or the current billionaire agenda:
~ Automating everything possible, so that they can leave the replaced workforce to starve
~ Controlling huge swarms of killer robots
~ Processing surveillance data to root out dissidents and crimethink
For sure this AI bubble is extra fucky wucky. Like, I wish I had the capital (I'm a proletariat sooo I don't) to burn on shorting some of these companies. Not that I really know how to do it properly and it's volatile and unless you wanna end up owing lots of money you can't cover you have to start with a lot since you're making very hard to foresee bets and some will not pan out.
Like, at some point this bubble will explode, nothing is really propping it up. There's not enough actual demand, the artificial demand there is won't stay forever and even the small amount of real demand isn't going to be there when companies start paying the actual cost for these services instead of it being subsidized. Almost all the money being poured into this "AI" (ie: the fancied up LLMs who's capabilities the tech bros keep on lying about) is going in a circle - it's actually madness.
It's absolutely a house of cards, but betting on a collective realization that's going to implode a big part of our economy is hard because people desperately want to believe the illusion. Sooner or later reality will come knocking and the harsh truth will come to be.
I do think it's going to make 2008 look like a joke but I guess we're going to have to crash the stock market like it's 1929 before our government decides to (once again) reign in Wall Street and this bullshit. It's like we all lost our collective minds or something, as if there wasn't a reason for the glass-steagull act to exist. Hell look at what's happening with our food supply as we've been gutting the FDA and USDA and EPA inspectors and relaxing regulations and constantly looking the other way when these big agri businesses literally shit up our food.
It's gonna be bad. when 2008 happened, the houses were still worth something the next year.
no one's gonna buy up all the datacenters openai and anthropic are circle-jerking from nvidia and the tech-lemmings driving the ship at meta, goog, amazon etc.
and there's more than a trillion fucking dollaroos invested already. lol fuuuuuck
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Where are all the promised benefits they all said would happen to the common person?
Guess they gave up on that and now it’s “Fuck you, fuck your jobs, sucks to be you, losers!”
The core promise of AI is "You'll be able to fire all your workers!"
You just aren't the target audience for the message.
It's a stupid promise.
Some jobs will be eliminated by AI, new technology wipes out jobs all the time. We needed people to manually connect wires to connect phone calls, and we automated that away.
I'm excited that the tedious technical parts of animation are getting automated, this gives the artists more time to work on the art. We use computer generated graphics all the time, we use digital production workflows, we don't manually paint frames anymore, unless we explicitly choose to for stylistic reasons.
If the animation isn't just right, the artist can tweak it. The art isn't lost because the artist used a modern tool. It's the soulless garbage used by money hungry gouls that will be entirely generated from a couple text prompts, and the result will show it.
There's a huge difference between implementing a new tool into your workflows to cut down animation hours and days to minutes, and delegating the whole artistic production process to the tool.
As an animator? If I can automate some of the extremely tedious in-betweening for things like ruffles on elaborately over-designed magical girl costumes, or background fire, that would be great. But let me breathe life and soul into these characters with my own two hands.
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Yeah it's the Jack Welch mentality where they fire a bunch of people to make line go up.
So offer a technology that promises to fire most of the workforce and investors throw money at it thinking "If we put everyone out of a job then line will go to the moon!"
Investors may not be all that smart.
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They hate them cuz they ain't them.
maybe they don't fully understand the role that artists play in rendering your daily life.
do you feel unease and sadness every single time you pass a fast food restaurant that looks the same as the others? i sure do.
the people who designed the new ones are artists but they work for satan and have no morals. they may as well be AI.
do you ever watch commercials on your streaming box and become quickly annoyed but then take in a commerical from the 80s and vibe to it? maybe not, but if you did, you'd notice the juicy fruity jingle was catchy as fuck and the aesthetics of the commercial were alluring. the modern ones? not so much. artists create all that.
the person in the tweet is too dim to notice these things. maybe they'll never notice it. maybe they do notice it and they don't care because they're disgusting examples of humanity....and embodiments of biblical evil.
These fucks get put up against the wall alongside their techbro oligarch heroes when the time comes.
I think this is just another side of the temporarily embarrassed-millionaire, anti-worker, techno-fascist-narcissist, pseudo-libertarian, culture-war propaganda that capitalism has been waging since the 1970's.
All indoctrinated chudds show the exact same distain for all workers, in all scenarios... unless it personally affects them... at which point it's the worst thing in the world. Half of them are so brainwashed they continue bootlicking the oligarchs that fire them; that are directly destroying their lives, families, and communities.
It's some poor slob with $15k on Nvidia stock praying they get rich without any skill for their shilling.
That's the whole point of the stock market. To make us feel like equals, like we can join their team.
Resentment and weak egos, I assume.
"I'm a great person" -> "I can't draw good" -> "they can draw good" -> "am I not so great??" -> "unacceptable!!!" -> "they suck!"
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it's always funny reading posts by "AI advocates" like this because none of them actually work for any AI companies. they're just linkedin fanboys of it. wannabe middle managers.
The irony, of course, being that middle management is a category of job much better suited to being replaced by AI than actual creative productivity is
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I'm a 25yr software engineer. I use the latest claude everyday. It's garbage, slings slop 95% of the time, and requires non stop correction in nearly everything it does.
I genuinely don’t know how vibe coders manage to get anything to actually work.
I suspect the ones who are, were already programmers.
I've had some success taking our main windows app and converting it to a server with a Flutter front end.
Mostly stuff that I already knew how to do but couldn't be arsed because it's a lot of work to keep it all in sync. Break it down into actual tasks and Santa Claude stands half a chance. I've never written a line of Dart.
I'm also absolutely certain there's a limit to how far this approach will get me. The old the first half of the work takes 90% of the time. The second half also takes 90% of the time.
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*correction by someone qualified to actually know shit about the matter.
This is where things will get interesting in the near future.
Just stop wasting time/money on Claude. If you already know what you're doing, use a super cheap model like DeepSeek Flash with thinking off to generate the code you want.
There is absolutely no reason (IMO) that a skilled SWE should ever need a model like Opus.
Chuds love AI because they think every artist is a blue-haired liberal. The thought of those liberals losing their jobs brings great joy to the chud.
Chuds vote time and again against their own interests. They do so to "own the libs," personal consequences be damned. As long as a liberal is perceived as hurt, the chud will support AI.
There was a leopardsatemyface town where the touring politician made fun of poor people because they couldn't buy food and the poor conservative town LAUGHED at themselves and then lost a hospital and supermarket.
Truly the broken cycle meme
Jealousy and envy in full display. They wish they had that kind of talent.
Some people can’t cope with that other people have talents
Talent = affinity + trained skill + effort
Usually.
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They seem to hate anyone who does anything that requires an education, and love AI making those people homeless and poor and letting any idiot replicate what they did even badly, because they've felt they were looked down on for not having any education.
No AI could ever match the creative genius of Korean animation studio.
Art just requires practice, which is even more rudimentary than education.
Prompt engineering and sifting through slop can appear like practice to anyone who doesn't. This, I find, is the source of the delusion and hate.
Not many people are figuring out things like color theory or perspective from practice alone.
Which is why there's a clear progression for art getting significantly better over the centuries. It's not because artists became more talented, it's because instruction was available.
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"Korean animation studio. Everybody work. Everybody work. We are slaves. Oh no! Tom Cruise!"
"Who's drive car? Bear drive car!"
How can that be?
That's a good question. I think maybe we as a society tend to underestimate bears. They've shown that they're often capable of getting in to trash containers specifically designed to keep them out, and their skill in avoiding racist park rangers in order to make off with pic-i-nic baskets.
And the most annoying part is, even Nvidia isn't even saying it'll do that.
All of the AI based character animation stuff has been about getting characters to move realistically in dynamic cases that your artists couldn't and weren't even trying to account for.
People have been using machine learning for this for a long time. It's a great advancement, but the ability to make a character crab walk over a bridge doesn't help you know what they should be doing, what it looks like, that it's conveying things correctly, or the actual hard parts of character animation.
So much envy for our creativity. Do the work like the rest of us. I started getting trained at age 5 in creativity. I honed that training through more and more use during my life. I didn't just wake up one morning seeing outside and around the box.
They think it's just 100% born in us when that's only a portion.
As a former graphic department manager, artists can be difficult to work with... for non-artists.
I got to see how frustrated the boss/owner got dealing with us. We're not a neat, blackbox they can shove instructions into and get out a perfectly formed product on the first round--which is what they think AI will give them soon. If they think AI will be better at dealing with client demands, I'll be happy to watch them fail with that.
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It's the ultimate separation of the art from the artist!
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