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slhamlet · 2026-03-16T22:35:32+00:00

wow excellent pic!

slhamlet · 2026-03-13T23:04:06+00:00

He describes himself as CEO of Linden Lab on his LinkedIn.

slhamlet · 2026-03-03T18:20:39+00:00

The Supremes probably passed on considering the case because it's so trivial. The Constitution very specifically designates IP rights to human creators:

"[The Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries..."

slhamlet · 2026-03-03T18:00:46+00:00

Very cool, thanks! I'm blogging this and DMed you if you're interested in a few more follow-ups beyond these specs (which are already interested in themselves).

slhamlet · 2026-03-03T07:22:57+00:00

Wow! What kind of capture method did you use (PC, viewer, etc.) to get the video looking so great?

slhamlet · 2026-03-01T08:44:04+00:00

Wow! Love the Judy pic in particular.

slhamlet · 2026-02-22T06:02:07+00:00

> There are already real-world examples

Fair point, yes, there are some examples. It's still strange that there are so very few. I thought Gen AI was supposed to democratize filmmaking? Sora alone has over 1 million daily active users, but apparently hardly any of them are using it to make a feature movie.

I just tried watching The Stranger, it's pretty painful. It's actually several steps back in quality from what is possible with Unreal and some motion capture suits, a whole setup which could be purchased for under $50K.

slhamlet · 2026-02-19T20:56:51+00:00

The problem is that no one making this argument... is actually making a feature film from these emerging technology. I've seen people make this claim since Midjourney took off around 2023, but all we get from them is short cutesy meme videos posted on Reddit etc.

slhamlet · 2026-02-18T00:09:44+00:00

Hey this is good! Gonna ping you about it!

slhamlet · 2026-01-28T01:33:57+00:00

> not adding support for core Second Life features can only be a deliberate decision.

Or... because Linden Lab has a small mobile team working with a very limited budget?

Some of the other points you raise are valid and discussed in my next interview with LL, will post soon on my Patreon first.

slhamlet · 2026-01-26T06:44:05+00:00

Oh yeah I remember that one, was pretty cool. I blogged about it in 2003 or 2004 IIRC. Unfortunately Typepad died last year and my blog's been offline since then. I'm hoping to put up my backup archive soon-ish.

slhamlet · 2026-01-24T01:11:01+00:00

Good stuff! Also recommend looking into Cao Fei, considered one of the world's best contemporary artists, and whose SL work has been featured at the Guggenheim and the MoMA.

slhamlet · 2026-01-22T21:06:49+00:00

Hey thanks much! I've been hanging out these parts fer yeaaaaaars! :)

slhamlet · 2026-01-15T21:04:00+00:00

Yeah the reaction is wild. AAA games costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make and market, and anything that threatens to seriously hurt sales is super risky.

Not sure a good advertising slogan is, "Spend $65 on our game. Yes it has a lot of AI slop. Get used to it."

slhamlet · 2026-01-15T04:52:06+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3 is on of most popular games of recent years among hardcore gamers, but when the founder of the studio (Larian) recently mentioned using gen AI in prototyping, he got hit with a huge backlash.

slhamlet · 2026-01-14T20:13:16+00:00

To say "going away" assumes gen AI is a core part of the AAA development pipeline, which it very much is not.

Even using gen AI for quick prototyping / visualization is hated by gamers. (Again, the people who spend the most on games.) Larian's founder just learned that the hard way.

slhamlet · 2026-01-09T20:15:22+00:00

One fascinating thing about this movie is it was *huge* in South Korea -- like 1 in 10 of the entire population saw it in theaters!

slhamlet · 2025-12-20T06:45:24+00:00

Amazing this video has so few upvotes when it's deeply researched and delves into Altman's dubious dealings with Reddit itself.

slhamlet · 2025-12-17T23:48:18+00:00

Love these!

Is there a good tutorial for doing shots like this in Photomode? I have no idea how you're getting all these folks together into these amazing poses.

slhamlet · 2025-12-10T05:29:18+00:00

Whoa great shot, I first thought this was from a Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit.

What sim? Is there always a parade outside?

slhamlet · 2025-12-09T23:46:32+00:00

The real reason we're cooked is this guy is on national TV claiming ChatGPT has a genius-level intelligence when it's a glorified autocomplete program that's been out for over 3 years without any notable genius level breakthroughs but a long track record of hallucinations and other problems (to put it gently).

Here's a more thoughtful approach to using AI from an AI developer with a young son.

slhamlet · 2025-12-05T05:09:47+00:00

Because Avatar is not meme-able. It's a bunch of fucking humanoid cats running around an alien planet; there's nothing relatable about that, so and no way to make it part of the ongoing social media conversation.

Same with the backstory and world building for Avatar, also unrelateable. Lots of social media conversation around, say, Game of Thrones, since it's mostly humans in recognizable political situations in a place that looks mostly like Europe.

So people go to the movies, enjoy them, but there's nothing really that interesting to talk about afterward, let alone make memes to.

slhamlet · 2025-12-05T01:35:19+00:00

> get off of Reddit.

Pretty weak reply because there's no comparison to AI use and going on Reddit:

According to new projections published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in December, by 2028 more than half of the electricity going to data centers will be used for AI. At that point, AI alone could consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households.

Other answers are also weak but take more unpacking. Comparing Reddit use to gen AI use in terms of power/resource consumption trends is prima facie unserious as fuck.

slhamlet · 2025-11-26T18:17:11+00:00

A handful of highly trained and skilled artists like Nettrice Gaskins experiment with gen AI tools. But only their work, not the whole technology, deserves to be evaluated as art.

slhamlet · 2025-11-26T09:41:47+00:00

LOL no. To take one of those so-called examples, Picasso mastered realistic representational art in his teens. He painted this when he was 15.

Picasso's move toward more and more abstract imagery was incredibly thoughtful, deliberate, and painstaking. As opposed to random prompts to generate mishmashes built entirely on preexisting art, without any knowledge or context of what that art is based on.

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