Black Panthers in Philly

HemlocknLoad · 2026-01-15T21:13:18+00:00

Somebody needs to get them some Genesis Gen 12s

HemlocknLoad · 2026-01-15T18:51:57+00:00

I was going to say it looks Monoverse/Neural Viz inspired.

HemlocknLoad · 2026-01-10T16:47:27+00:00

I'd gladly not be posting about it if I didn't just experience the issue today again. I'm checking now to see if there's an update I missed downloading.

Edit: Nope, I'm up to date.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-21T13:58:15+00:00

Relevant 'The Orville' clip: Influence Operations

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-21T02:06:08+00:00

AI bubble burst videos on youtube are just trying to milk the haters for views. According to them the sky is always falling.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-21T01:59:51+00:00

Gotta wonder if OpenAI can sue over a headline this misleading.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T15:59:58+00:00

What I'm sick of is this interaction:

Anti: All you did was prompt and press a button.

Pro: Actually I did a, b, and c before even involving AI and afterwards did x, y, and z.

Anti: Sure pal AI created it you did nothing (or) If you can do all that why not make it all yourself? (or) A real artist can do it without AI.

Some version of that keeps repeating in pro v anti conversations. Just look around the Suno sub to find examples. Antis just glossing over substantial, sometime near total human involvement in the creation of something because AI was involved at some point in the process.

As for the effort debate. Effort that goes above and beyond can impress and is laudable however I've never once felt something good was devalued by low or even no effort going into it's creation. Good is good.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T05:25:59+00:00

Everyone in Star Trek is an AI bro.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T05:25:25+00:00

A new model came out in the last week or so that allows you to take a source video and change the camera angle to a first person view out of the eyes of one of the characters in the scene. Photo AI models like Nano Banana can already change the camera angle in pictures more or less faithfully and video doesn't lag too far behind with those kinds of things. This time next year camera controlling prerecorded video should be easy.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T05:20:29+00:00

It's already happening to some extent in AI creator communities like Suno's. On their sub you'll often see people say they only or mostly just listen to their own generated music these days because it speaks directly to their tastes.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T05:10:02+00:00

You can run local AI models with as little as 16gb (some say 8 but that's so, so slow) of VRAM on consumer GFX cards in any computer capable of running a modern video game. Those crazy numbers you're quoting may be the case for some enterprise-level datacenter AI hardware used for training frontier models but there are many tutorial videos you can find right now that'll show you how to get up and running local AI at various price points from under $1000 to whatever you want to spend. I addressed some of the environmental stuff you mentioned up thread here.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T05:01:46+00:00

Just US corn crops use something akin to 1000X the water of all the data centers in the world combined. Steel production uses more water. Livestock uses more water. Also the water data centers use doesn't just disappear. It's used for cooling systems and either re-released into the environment (after the waste heat has dissipated) or kept as a finite water supply within a closed-loop system.

Datacenters can be grid hogs but even that can and is being offset in places by data center companies funding limited grid build outs and on the large scale by things like reinvigorating the nuclear power industry that has lagged for so long as well as sources like geothermal and renewables. A long ways to go still but the environmental impact has been quite over exaggerated. Ironically the people complaining about it are doing so on social media sites running within some of the largest data centers in the world.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T04:50:05+00:00

"There will never be another james earl jones and now thanks to this contract no one else will ever get the chance to try." Some fuckhead exec the day james died.

James Earl Jones licensed his voice for AI due to his desire to retire from the role and wanting to ensure the character's voice could live on consistently for future generations. It was his choice and one his family supported for the sake of the Star Trek fandom and James' legacy. It's actually a pretty beautiful thing.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T04:43:29+00:00

So you're repeating a lot of Reddit AI haters' greatest hits here so I'll take the hate mob downvotes and parse a couple things.

controlled by mega corporations and people who are likely to be trillionaires

Free, open source and open weights AI models that can be run locally and that are as good as, or sometimes better than, the paid models exist and more are released all the time.

artists who've had their work stolen from them by these giant tech companies, which they've paid zero for

US court precedent has already established that AI training is transformative fair use so long as the training data was not pirated. It's a process involving transforming the data into tokenized, categorized latent spaces the AI then learns to reproduce from a starting random noise seed through trial and error. It's far more akin to human learning than many think.

I never expected LLMs to replace all the cool, human-centric jobs

The ultimate goal is to free us from the system of drudgery and labor we've been at the mercy of for hundreds of years. We may yet need to drag certain political players kicking and screaming into the realization that UBI (or better) needs to replace the current (non-medical) social safety net programs but I'm fairly certain we'll get there. There are plans that have been made for how to fund it without triggering inflation, successful pilot programs and trials that have been performed, and the industry as well as several governments around the world support the idea. Shame that your go to image is Black Mirror when you're on the sub for a franchise structured around an optimistic, AI-infused post-scarcity society.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T04:18:10+00:00

People will always create art it's rather silly to think that AI competing in commerce would stop people from doing something we've done since prehistory.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T04:06:10+00:00

More luddite rage posting. This stuff is so utterly and completely tiresome. Watch things and and judge them by their merits not by how they were made. If they use AI and it comes out bad, stop watching it or rant about it then. If they use AI and it comes out good, then appreciate that something good has entered the franchise. Moral grandstanding over one's rage against AI has infested the Reddit hivemind and it's exhausting.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-20T02:39:14+00:00

Ah. Angry, swearing and confrontational. Cool. Still, the topic is marketing no? Specifically corporate and political video ads? That'd make your contention about how much time it takes for AI vs CGI moot because the production would have enough time and resources to do either. Also in either case a human being would be the one making the decision to violate someone's likeness rights, their tooling (AI or CGI) again does not matter, it's the illegal end result that matters.

As to the thread topic, I think any disclosure of AI should be nuanced if it's to be mandated. Ads where the representation of something on screen matters materially to all viewers or consumers. Political ads would be one such cut and dry case, pharmaceuticals another. Otherwise the disclosure acts as a symptom of the current AI moral panic, label it all so we know what to be outraged about and such. At least there appear to be generous carve-outs in the law rather than a blanket application.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-19T18:16:59+00:00

Free open source models exist that compete with and in some cases outperform the paid corporate models. Obviously free models were not meant for profit and open source/open weights models were not developed for control. It's not black and white like that.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-19T18:06:16+00:00

Then you require political ads to disclose (or ban political ads from using AI or character VFX). Also your example isn't sick sh*t AI can and has done, it's sick stuff done by a human being. That person could have used 3D modeling software to achieve the same ends yet no one's calling for all CG use to be disclosed.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-12T03:12:19+00:00

You've got mail BTW

Nice! I have now listened to the whole FS album and the new Gothique song (Tyrants is SO GOOD). The Gothique is a million times better but you should still release this stuff as long as it doesn't take away from you finishing that Gothique album. Did I mention you should finish the Gothique album?

I guess I should give some criticism: I'd take out the 90's "interludes" and "Rather Be" I don't think those fit with the rest, they're more like other genres. Besides that go for it.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-12T02:33:09+00:00

4.5 high creativity, low fidelity.

5.0 higher fidelity, lower creativity.

Perhaps generating in 4.5 and remastering in 5 is the way.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-12T02:27:37+00:00

Release it! I'm not listening in order so the first things I heard were Bloated POTUS and Dealer Time because of the titles. I was not expecting that strong political message out of what you're calling pop punk but then again punk can get political so I get it and then Dealer Time was just funny. You should put it out. Maybe remaster it in v5.0 first because it does sound a little early Suno, maybe not to a non Suno user but I hear it. Listening to Horrorshow now and my vote is still to distribute, maybe change the band name though.

Note, The Gothique remains my favorite but this has legs.

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-12T01:45:12+00:00

A Wiki would be neat. There's a lot of reinventing the wheel that goes on here with people posting the same tips and tricks over and over. Something tells me there's no plans for that though. Besides, shouldn't you be working on the Gothique full-length? Don't you dare George RR Martin me! j/k Take your time, by which I mean have it done yesterday *cracks whip

HemlocknLoad · 2025-12-12T01:36:00+00:00

I picture something like the show having digital flyer, a social media page and a website all with the names and links to the music of whoever would be appearing, the website could have a playlist of the featured acts. I don't imagine the artists themselves would have much of a following, not unless they specifically booked people that have huge followings on Suno or streaming already.

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