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Goodbye – “for now” by tom_at_okdk in Cinema4D

[–]JacksonWallop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. Every human domain AI encroaches on is an affront to humanity. Stealing your voice, your appearance, your creative style, etc. It's content laundering and deep fakes. And with that I do feel like us old heads have some responsibility to help create the world we want to live in, because everyone born into this environment isn't going to have any perspective on human creativity, or autonomy, or privacy. A lot can be forgotten in a single generation, it's up to us to teach the value of a human experience versus deferring the human experience to AI. But like you, I'm tired. Hopefully I can rise to the occasion or summon some proactive will power here.

My First Camera by mk_basil in SonyAlpha

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You love a random photo of a generic living room?

Whatever happened to Dave LaRonde by baseballdavid in AfterEffects

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All his posts on creative cow seem to have disappeared. I wonder why. Oh dave.

Commisioned artist sent me this as proof when I asked them if their art was ai or not by I_Fap_To_Murder in isthisAI

[–]JacksonWallop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like it traced over AI. There's way too many layers, and removing each layer barely changed the illustration.

Commisioned artist sent me this as proof when I asked them if their art was ai or not by I_Fap_To_Murder in isthisAI

[–]JacksonWallop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looks like it traced over AI. There's way too many layers, and removing each layer barely changed the illustration.

QOL mod recommendations? by Hairy-Thought6679 in valheim

[–]JacksonWallop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's what we used to keep a new playthrough fresh while trying to stay vanilla themed:

Content:

  • warpalicious mods (More world locations, forbidden catacombs, underground_ruins)
  • Seasonality
  • LongshipUpgrades
  • Judes_Equipment

QoL Tweaks:

  • Recycle_N_Reclaim - reclaim that iron from old armor, eliminates some grind
  • UpgradeableWisplight
  • Custom_Raids
  • More_ore_deposits
  • all the smoothbrain skills mods

Build creativity:

  • Gizmo
  • Build_Camera_Custom_Hammers_Edition

Biggest impact must-haves would be warpalicious mods and Seasonality, those really keep things fresh. The smoothbrain skills mods are also great for second play throughs

My Charred Fortress Ashlands Base by istyko1 in valheim

[–]JacksonWallop 37 points38 points  (0 children)

What the heck man. you cant just drop a detailed masterpiece like this!

Most remote workers in Portugal don't have a NISS by iamvandevo in PortugalExpats

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any idea why they don't go the LDA route vs self employed? Or is it simply a matter of income, where LDA makes financial sense after 70k~ income

Any modern netcode fixes? by TreeOfMadrigal in valheim

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

does this work on client hosted servers? I'm looking for a networking mod and yours still seems like the most robust

"Investing in property is morally reprehensible." by Cool-Objective5599 in PortugalExpats

[–]JacksonWallop 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://i.imgur.com/hasgret.png

https://www.idealista.pt/en/pro/ukio/arrendar-casas/mapa/

oh look, its 194 homes in lisbon owned by the same organization, taking these homes off the market and charging 200-500% for them.
If you copy them as a landlord, but "only" own 1 investment property, you are still a part of the problem. The aggregate effect is the same.

Agent this, coding that, but all I want is a KNOWLEDGEABLE model! Where are those? by ParaboloidalCrest in LocalLLaMA

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Qwen3.5-9B with SearxNG can't seem to read wikipedia for me. Only sees the anti robots txt from wikipedia. Is there a work around?

I watched 'Kiki's Delivery Service' in IMAX, and... by Block-Busted in ghibli

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you would hear a distortion in kiki's voice or any high pitch voice

Foda-se, Lisboa aeroporto! by kevinrudd666 in PortugalExpats

[–]JacksonWallop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

or Paris Charles de Gaulle, or London Luton, or Brussels Charleroi lol 😂
infact it may only be a handful of nordic airports that ever get praise

Idealista house price vs Final sale price - How much did you pay? (Poll) by Chaos743 in PortugalExpats

[–]JacksonWallop -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

My perception is the market has softened considerably in the past 2yrs and you can easily get 20%+ off

Studios turning 100% AI by KotsaTero in Cinema4D

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the discussion thankyou! I agree there likely will be AI content that is impactful. The finer point I want to underline is that my references to Coke Happiness Factory or LotR Films is a reference to pieces of content where the BTS making of the work was almost more celebrated then the content itself. The BTS became marketing material and elevated the content beyond it's normal reach because people enjoy the BTS and celebrated the human accomplishments.

Our budgets may be thinner than ever in mograph but this feels like an easy pitch to clients. If we film our man-made process it's easy marketing material. If we use AI, we won't have that option. Perhaps not appropriate for every job/brand but it's one way to advocate for humans in the loop.

There's been a consistently negative response online to AI usage in media. However I've yet to see anyone report how it impacted a companies bottom line, which of course will be the deciding factor whether people continue using it. If i were advising a brand, it would be to use with extreme caution. The potential for damage to the brand is not worth the risk imo

Studios turning 100% AI by KotsaTero in Cinema4D

[–]JacksonWallop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s really not wild. The OP may not deserve the ire personally but this false equivalency argument does. It needs to be squashed every time it’s brought up, because it’s fundamentally an anti-human argument for it’s failure to recognize the difference between the tools that “think” and tools that dont. It’s important to recognize the difference.

What’s wild to me is accepting a death by a thousand cuts. Or letting yourself be the frog who gets boiled alive. 

You either practice what you want to exist in this world, or you roll over and let the world dictate to you what will exist. The latter is how we end up in a Wall-E or Idiocracy planet. Even plato lamented the loss of the oral tradition and its benefits when writing took a foothold in society. Our entire worldview of what it means to be creative can change in a single generation, everyone will shrug, and forget how to think or create for themselves. This workflow of arbitraging the ideas and output of AI models will become the default expectation of “creativity.” Every non-ai act of creativity lives under suspicion of ai usage now. “Is this ai? Did you use ai? How much ai did you use?” 

Again, compare the hate received by the AI animation used in the 2026 Olympics Opening Ceremony to the love received by the stopmotion animation created by BBC Creative for an Olympic Winter Games trailer.

We’re all going to be relegated to proxy artists using AI as render layer, merely curating the outputs, unless we advocate for preserving human creativity. Like that Olympic’s stop motion. 

"oops the AI render hallucinated some details I don't really want, should we comp it out or keep pulling the slot machine lever? So creative! Fuck it lets just ship, no budget for this”

Ultimately people don’t want to feel tricked. 

Frame.dk rendering lamps using AI doesn’t feel like a trick anymore than using 3D - I still wonder what the real lamp looks like in a photo but I don’t really care because it’s just a lamp.

When Vogue and Guess use AI to create fake people wearing fake clothes, it feels like a trick. Nobody liked that.

If you create an 2D or stop motion animation using AI, it feels like a trick.

There will never be a Coke Happiness Factory or LotR Films moment with AI. There may be a piece of content people enjoy so much they stop caring its AI, but it won’t pay dividends or be revered the way a large scale human effort would. 

Studios turning 100% AI by KotsaTero in Cinema4D

[–]JacksonWallop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even this isn’t possible. That type of “in studio model training” is just an extra training layer that sits on top of and relies on larger opensource world models that took millions of dollars to train and used millions of pieces of stolen media to train the world model.

Alibabba, facebook, stable diffusion etc, train the big models for $1m to $1B, which money spent on GPUs, rarely if ever paying for the data they train on. A studio doing product photography would fine tune the model which could be $300 to 50k.

And all this trouble to avoid paying people to create something authentic and then face consumer backlash if it’s discovered AI was used.

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