🎬 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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I figured I'd post a little bit of my Matrix Resurrections work here.
These were done under the production design of Hugh Bateup and Peter Walpole, and the direction of Lana Wachowski.
These are some designs from IO, including Niobe's keep and the Morpheus shrine.
Hope you enjoy!
"Yeah, we know AI search is bad, but what if it was full of even more ads?"
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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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-…
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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
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"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.
It might finally be happening.... 🫧
$500 billion vaporised from Google parent company's market value because AI is eating Search's lunch pcgamer.com/software/ai/we-f…
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…)
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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.
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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)
Been oil painting all day and just saw this.
In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/48foPk1
But wait, I thought China loved AI?
Took a hundred people 2 years and $1.5 million to earn less than $200k in its opening weekend, with over 10,000 screenings opening day. That's something like 23,000 people out of 1,400,000,000.
I guess you slop, you flop.
China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend.
By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago.
cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r…
Maybe stop being a shitty person and visit your grandmother or call her instead of relying on AI to keep her company, just a thought.
Serial arsonist believes world is entering a combustion crisis and doesn't think he'll be able to prevent himself from helping cause it.
It's because their brains are fried. They're incapable of picking up new skills anymore, so they assume everyone is as inept as they are because they can't imagine someone not using AI. They legitimately think anyone who says they don't use it is lying.
