🎬 Film concept artist and illustrator. 🎞️ Alien: Earth, Matrix, Marvel, DC, Transformers, Woman King, Jupiter Ascending, 1923, Hunger Games.
Michigan, US
Joined January 2009
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Reid Southen retweeted
This year's View Conference was inspiring. The endless AI pitches were less so, crossing into total bullshit.
AI Evangelists (one speaker's actual title) insisted everyone uses genAI, even as established directors explicitly said otherwise. My thoughts:
cartoonbrew.com/events/view-…
Reid Southen retweeted
I don't post here anymore but im back to be another voice for @chainsawroll . She's as anti-ai as the rest of us, and I've seen her process from start to finish, getting feedback from artist peers, repeatedly.
She works too damn hard to get dog pilled like this, over a lie
Reid Southen retweeted
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't an artist.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker.
"I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.
Reid Southen retweeted
Travis Knight says that LAIKA will never use generative AI in their films.
“AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.”
(Source: theplaylist.net/wildwood-tra…)
Reid Southen retweeted
BREAKING: House Democrats have preemptively introduced a resolution to stop the federal government from bailing out AI companies in the event of the industry collapsing. The bill says these companies should be subjected to the ordinary bankruptcy process.
Reid Southen retweeted
Behind closed doors these AI companies are all perfectly aware that their models are built by stealing from creatives to transfer wealth to a centralized few at the top.
AI is theft and they know it. The stealing was always the point to enrich a chosen few and that's it.
As Anthropic prepares to IPO for over $1 trillion, a reminder of Dario Amodei’s words shortly after founding the company:
“Distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete.”
In other words, this IPO will be built off the backs of the world’s creatives - who will get nothing out of it except obsolescence.
It is a totally unjust transfer of wealth and opportunity from artists, writers, musicians & other creatives to a tiny tech elite.
I hope it is remembered as such.
(this quote is from a document he wrote that was unsealed in Bartz v. Anthropic)
Reid Southen retweeted
One of the world’s largest private equity firms just issued a report concluding: “Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.”
Reid Southen retweeted
As I get closer to losing my home, I reached out to my mortgage company about options.
They can't do anything for me financially.
And attempting to be proactive does nothing to stop lack of payment from severly damaging my credit.
Houses aren't selling & I can't afford any of these rent prices, anyway.
I will have no where to go.
Credit cards are filling up.
I've done everything right my entire life. I've always played it safe. I didn't do anything wrong.
Yet thanks to AI - career ruined, I can't find new work - I will lose everything. I will fall into the type of debt that will be impossible to crawl out of.
I needed help. I needed this to stop. I needed a lifetime of playing by the rules to mean something and it turns out it means nothing at all.
Really just wishing for death at this point.
Reid Southen retweeted
If someone keeps telling you "you better adapt or else you will get left behind" for 4 year straight, it really comes off more like they're trying to convince themselves rather than trying to warn you.
Especially when the "skill" is just typing a sentence to ask for something.
Reid Southen retweeted
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…
Reid Southen retweeted
I’m begging all of you to go out and see this movie. I need word of mouth to spread for this flick ASAP.
Reid Southen retweeted
BREAKING: A judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading consumers about their data privacy. cbsn.ws/4z27Nlh
Reid Southen retweeted
The biggest newspapers in Canada just sued Anthropic for alleged copyright infringement.
The number of lawsuits piling up over this technology is astonishing.
And there will be more.
torontolife.com/city/canadas…
Reid Southen retweeted
WILDWOOD is one of the greatest artistic and technical achievements in filmmaking.
There’s a battle sequence that is so violent, vivid, and masterfully executed that my jaw was on the floor.
It’s a real testament to the visceral feeling that only human-made art can create.
Reid Southen retweeted
I spent a year and a half making this. Taught myself Blender to do it. At no point did I consider using gen AI to speed up my workflow. Because the end product is not the point. Art is about the process. I learned a lot. Time well spent
