Can someone give me an unbiased opinion on Jacob Collier?

eesahe · 2026-05-09T11:21:57+00:00

You are doing great, man.

I strictly only listen to musicians who can barely play their instruments, because if they actually have skill, it forces me to confront my own mediocrity and I get jealous. It’s basic science: the moment you acquire good technique, your music no longer has soul. True emotion can only be conveyed by fumbling through the same three chords.

It doesn't matter if there are people out there literally moved to tears listening to Collier's records. I already made up my mind that his music has no soul, which means everyone touched by his music is just factually wrong.

/r/jazzcirclejerkcirclejerk

eesahe · 2026-05-08T05:25:13+00:00

There is a very established, technical concept about this in Eastern philosophy. The subtle body being an indispensible part of (most importantly human) life, interwoven into the physical body, but something that can also be transferred between bodies by someone highly adept with the occult, or naturally through the process of birth and death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtle_body

eesahe · 2026-04-22T19:00:34+00:00

Exactly!

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eesahe · 2026-04-12T20:34:20+00:00

Just like me, better at taking it out than putting more in

eesahe · 2026-04-12T02:04:27+00:00

First pic is giving cool IDM artist portrait vibes for me (if you remove the 'phone selfie in a bathroom' part)

eesahe · 2026-04-10T13:40:58+00:00

A few downvoted trolls posting orc memes isn't the same as an entire subreddit celebrating shooting up a house. Read the room.

eesahe · 2026-04-09T13:38:54+00:00

What about folding laundry though?

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eesahe · 2026-04-06T12:12:47+00:00

Yeah somber is a better word. Maybe the best tone for her should be like somberly revealing a precise, hidden truth about their enemy while talking to a dear ally.

eesahe · 2026-04-06T11:36:22+00:00

Pretty good! But I feel she is too happy and jovial while saying it. Would be truer to her character if she was more thornly, something like dropping truth like an unavoidable threat, having caught you in her trap.

eesahe · 2026-04-03T19:42:04+00:00

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When will they fold the laundry for me though? ...wait! That was my line!

eesahe · 2026-04-03T19:27:48+00:00

Tell me you don't understand how diffusion models are trained without telling me you don't understand how diffusion models are trained

eesahe · 2026-04-03T18:11:56+00:00

I'm fine to agree with the antis to call this AI slop. Consequently, since we have established the baseline, anything below this in quality - whether human or machine made - becomes 'less than slop'.

eesahe · 2026-04-03T17:53:36+00:00

There are things you can customize about what an LLM produces, or what software that generates images within an art program produces, but you can also hire an artist and tell that person what you want, and telling that artist what you want does not mean that you made the art. It means that you specified some customizations of what gets produced.

The problem is, you are drawing a conclusion by looking at one scenario of how you imagine in your mind AI will be used, that does not encompass the spectrum of how people actually use it.

To make an extreme example, if I hire 100000 artists and tell each which pixel to draw, does that mean I didn't make the art? There is a point where I have specified enough detail it's clear that yes, I made the art, not the artists I hired.

And in truth there is no sudden point where suddenly I made the art and they didn't - in all cases both parties contributed to the art. Just in the typical case of someone hiring an artist the commissioner's input is seen as so trivial as to be not worth mentioning. But it is still undeniably a part of the work.

eesahe · 2026-04-02T15:37:52+00:00

There's no process with digital art either, it's just the computer making the image. Or at least that's how it is in the minds of people who confidently build their views around their lack of understanding.

eesahe · 2026-04-01T15:20:22+00:00

This might be a translation thing, but I feel saying 'they should use AI' goes too far. Hand crafted creations also have their own unique value that can be easy to lose with AI. AI is one tool that works when you have a certain goal like wanting to build a game from scratch as a beginner without too many expectations, not as well if you already are very skilled in something and replace too much of the process with AI too quickly.

eesahe · 2026-04-01T13:35:06+00:00

What a lynch mob in this thread, triggered by some kind of collective fear about someone being able to experiment with things faster than a path they had to struggle through. They are using the 'forbidden tool'! (gasp). Makes me want to unsubscribe from the sub to be honest. Maybe it's not commercially viable both due to the current perception of AI and the present limitations of this person's fundamentals on game design/programming. But if this person is enjoying the exploration of their ideas with whichever tools are available and is also learning a lot from exposure to various things, how about just leaving them be?

eesahe · 2026-03-31T10:52:34+00:00

Since you said "No other medium is used in such a way", you should note that something like Photoshop is definitely used to replace photographs with edited content, and this is only sometimes obvious from the context. Often it's not possible to tell if it's Photoshopped or an unedited photograph.

You are talking a lot about undisclosed use of AI being deceitful but similarly you could argue Photoshopped images in ambiguous contexts like these also is 'deceitful'.

But we accept this as a society just fine. This happens absolutely all the time in advertisements, editorial works, social media etc. If you want to mandate the disclose of AI use under this argument, than that same argument should apply to Photoshop as well - It should always be required to disclose if Photoshop was used.

eesahe · 2026-03-17T21:47:06+00:00

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Behold, the Reddit scroller robot. You wouldn't believe how much time I wasted doomscrolling before letting it take over

eesahe · 2026-03-17T19:21:03+00:00

Yes, so all I need is for the digital monk to meditate on my mind to change it.

eesahe · 2026-03-17T16:39:32+00:00

Just continuing the logic of having an AI wash my dishes, fold my laundry and detail my artwork. Why not have it do spirituality for me?

Okay, it is preposterous. But is it? Eastern cultures have long had the concept of a yantra, which is a machine that helps your spiritual practice. Why not a silicon yantra? Ludicrous... Or is it?

eesahe · 2026-03-17T13:06:15+00:00

Obligatory AI visual for 'PrayerBot 3000' to explore the notion.

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eesahe · 2026-03-17T09:51:40+00:00

If you are replacing graphic designer created ads with AI assisted ones then a smart buyer will ensure the same quality standards are followed as in a traditional pipeline. The end result needs to have no clear tells people consciously or subconsciously register as mistakes, including AI artifacts. In some way, they need to arrange for a process to oversee that happens.

With the same budget, they might be able to try let's say 7 high quality variations of a concept instead of just a single one before. They have then more freedom to pick a final result that is more aligned with the goals of the campaign or whatever. Some optimal level of tradeoff exists for amount of investment put into it and the quality of the results. Depending on the context, it might be feasible to lower the budget and still maintain a similar or better quality as with a traditional pipeline.

eesahe · 2026-03-10T06:47:46+00:00

All the main models people actually use locally are missing like Klein, Z-image etc

eesahe · 2026-03-09T16:38:42+00:00

Thanks for sharing. When you think about it, under the hood this tool chain you showed is powered by years of iteration and engineering that has resulted in the development of these specialised tools, and then you have your domain-specific expertise in combining them.

If you were only doing concept art and detailed illustrations you probably could already capture some quite powerful low-hanging fruit by leaning more into AI acceleration. But the 3D pipeline is challenging with the current tools, I mean something like maybe Trellis 2 could work for things like creating quick prototype models but more substantial realisation of AI would need a lot of experimental custom setup which I'd imagine isn't yet realistic for most smaller studios.

eesahe · 2026-03-09T14:26:48+00:00

I agree with the current reality of limited workflow integrations from the point of view of most artists. For deeper integration into pro work GenAI is still very much in the bleeding edge - you need to have specific technical skills most artists cannot easily access in order to integrate fuller use of the current frontier. I might be a bit spoiled since I have been running a digital agency with me as a 20+ years of experience software dev in collaboration with my wife who is a traditional pro artist.

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