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In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
Yesterday, 08:07 PM
Abyss, on 15 December 2025 - 03:25 PM, said:And Just Finished The 13th Paladin bk 12, CALL OF THE ICE FIELDS. While this book takes the series prize for use of the words 'smithereens', 'dastrardly', and 'whooshed', plus a character who "sent his spear spearing through the air" it was a great fun read. The author has refined his art
The German originals seem to be much better written than the (currently available commercial) English translations, going by reviews.
At the very least, they don't use the word "smithereens". ("Dastardly smithereens whooshed, sending spears to spear his spear"---is there a single word for that in German yet?...). -
In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread
Yesterday, 05:00 PM
polishgenius, on 22 December 2025 - 04:27 PM, said:I think it's important to differentiate using theft machines which is what most people think of when they say AI and using AI tools trained on their own work and specific data deliberately designed to get it to do a job, to do the busywork so they can focus on design and otherwise focus their time on creativity. Which is something that has been happening for a while.
Which, to be fair, he absolutely is.
It seems you're right:
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At the [2023] World Business Forum in Sydney (which UNSW Business School was an academic partner for) James Cameron shared insights into a multitude of topics
Mr Cameron said he has been using AI to assist with the production of films such as Avatar: the way of water, and is constantly experimenting with "a number of different flavours" in the process of making Avatar sequels and other movies. "We were using machine deep learning to generate algorithms that were speeding us up and giving us better work for the past eight years or so," he said. "I think that's not really bothering anybody."
More recently, he has been using AI to assist with pre-visualisation and imagining what a scene might look like as part of the storyboarding process – so it acts as an assistant to the creative process. "I think where people are freaking out is, does it replace the creative process?" he stated. "I think we just have to make sure that doesn't happen. We have to continue to ensure that the lived experience of an artist is still at the forefront in this work."
Generative models scrape data from all imagery that's ever been created, and while AI can sometimes "produce quite beautiful images", Mr Cameron said they're reflecting "our collective aesthetic, almost our collective unconscious, the way it operates in our dreams", he said. However, AI cannot reflect on the art and understand it the same way a creative human artist can.
https://www.business...-and-innovation
Yes, I'd been intending to elaborate on that viewpoint (generative AI, through its approximation of the space of possibilities implied by previous art, and of the associations of words with vectors and regions in that space, as a sort of communion with an emulation of humanity's "collective unconscious" as implied by all of the art that it's learned from) over in the Algorithms and Automation thread, which of course would be a better place to discuss it in detail. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
Yesterday, 11:52 AM
Modgod notice of no... just no. -
In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread
21 December 2025 - 08:28 PM
Cause, on 21 December 2025 - 06:00 PM, said:Did you enjoy Avatar back in 2009 but now it's 2025 and you crave something fresh. So you ask yourself wouldn't it be cool if I could use generative ai to recreate the film but different.
Now you no longer have to, because that's exactly what avatar 3 is.
You may just mean that metaphorically, but Cameron made a public statement averring that no generative AI was used... if it's chintzy cheesy slop, it is pure derivative human slop.
Four hundred million dollar slop... oh wait that's actually less money than the Rings of Power season one cost (around 465 million... plus 250 million for the rights).
But he wants to use generative AI in the future:
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generative AI is a very powerful tool. We just need to tame it, and we need to use it ethically. So, I'm not an expert in AI. Like I said, I haven't worked with it so far. We haven't used it on the Avatar films, and that's pretty much all I've been doing for the last few years. But I'm very curious about it, and I want to see, it seems to me there are certain specific tasks within the VFX pipeline that are so mind-numbingly boring and repetitious, that those could be done by a gen model of some kind. And even if I have to help develop some of that stuff, because the big developers, the Googles and Metas and everybody, they're focused on public and business use, right? So, a lot of text-prompt models for text, and text-to-video models, and they're not focusing on the kind of tools that we need in the entertainment industry. We're just too small for them, ultimately, is what it boils down to. They think of having a constituency of eight billion people, you know what I mean? We're just too small a market.
So I think we're going to have to generate these tools ourselves, I'm very keen to figure out if we can bring the costs down using generative AI tools. Once again, within very specific guardrails that don't intrude on the artist, we don't intrude on the writer, we don't intrude on the actor, most importantly.
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In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
21 December 2025 - 07:48 PM
Maark Abbott, on 21 December 2025 - 07:25 PM, said:Paul and Taint getting banged out.
Beautiful.
Sources in my newsfeed deemed the Jake Paul KO worthy of headlines but apparently failed to mention Tate. Paul is bad (Trump supporter last I checked, among other things) but Tate seems much, much worse.
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Radical misogynist Andrew Tate put to sleep in brutal boxing defeat
Divisive social media influencer and former rape accused Andrew Tate has been humiliated and beaten to a pulp in his return to boxing.
Radical misogynist Andrew Tate put to sleep in brutal boxing defeat | news.com.au — Australia's leading news site for latest headlines
I like the choice of pink gloves for clobbering Mr Misogynist... what was that quote again? "They came with pink gloves and left with red"
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