you know whats a good underrated character design aesthetic? Park Ranger

dude with long green cargo pants and a cowboy hat runnin around helping people and animals alike in the forest :)

The Auteur as a figure in entertainment is dead. Grown strong on digital production, a more artistically bankrupt creature emerges in their place. It is the Executive Auteur, and it's coming soon to a theater near you, whether you like it or not.

If you've noticed all manner of artists increasingly taking a back seat in the discourse to studios and franchises, if you're weirded out by how much more valued a corporation's vision seems to be than the interchangeable drones tasked with realizing that vision, this article is for you.

still dont know how techbros can stand calling this shit AI. its not intelligent yet. there is no complex thought going on inside their autocomplete asses

the tech industry has been optimizing for people who think they know better than anyone else (ego) and ideas that sound cool to investors (sales) for so long that those who are midrange on the Dunning-Kruger scale think that that is what true progress is. it’s a symptom of the late-stage capitalistic brain rot that says “more investment means more success means more innovative” which very obviously flips cause and effect.

having been friends with people who did cutting edge work on optimizing SRS models like 8 years ago, none of them would call it AI. but along come startups with (probably) initially interesting goals that find themselves in need of more money and they find if they replace ML with AI the offers 10x or something. eventually they get so used to calling it AI that they forget that it isn’t and the people who are a degree or two separated never knew it wasn’t actually AI. however, these semi-technical techbros are like script kiddies in that they think being able to use tools equals understanding and skill. again, a reversal of cause and effect.

however even those who learn more about the core technologies at a high level still think of it as “AI” because it was burned into their brain as what that was. then these people contribute to the community and become the public facing “experts” and thus the cycle perpetuates itself as newcomers are pointed to their guides, et cetera, et cetera.

it’s also important to remember how poor of a test of “AI” the turing test is. and that’s still what the vast majority of people think of as the test. once again, the effect (solving the test) is more important that the cause (an actual “thinking machine” that isn’t just pattern matching).

anyways, i say we blame capitalism, release RABIDS, and burn it all down.