It's easily doubled my productivity as an engineer.

As a filmmaker, my friends and I are getting more and more done as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqoCWdOwr2U

As long as humans are driving, I see AI as an exoskeleton for productivity:

https://github.com/storytold/artcraft (this is what I'm making)

It's been tremendously useful for me, and I've never been so excited about the future. The 2010's and 2020's of cellphone incrementalism and social media platformization of the web was depressing. These models and techniques are actually amazing, and you can apply these techniques to so many problems.

I genuinely want robots. I want my internet to be filtered by an agent that works for me. I want to be able to leverage Hollywood grade VFX and make shows and transform my likeness for real time improv.

Apart from all the other madness in the world, this is the one thing that has been a dream come true.

As long as these systems aren't owned by massive monopolies, we can disrupt the large companies of the world and make our own place. No more nepotism in Hollywood, no more working as a cog in the labyrinth of some SaaS company - you can make your own way.

There's financial capital and there's labor capital. AI is a force multiplier for labor capital.

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navigate8310 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I want to be able to leverage Hollywood grade VFX and make shows and transform my likeness for real time improv.

While i certainly respect your interactivity and subsequent force multiplayer nature of AI, this doesn't mean you should try to emulate an already given piece of work. You'll certainly gain a small dopamine when you successfully copy something but it would also atrophy your critical skills and paralyze you from making any sort of original art. You'll miss out on discovering the feeling of any frontier work that you can truly call your own.

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blks 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

Claims of productive boosts must always be inspected very carefully, as they are often perceived, and reality may be the opposite (eg spending more time wrestling the tools), or creating unmaintainable debt, or making someone else spend extra time to review the PR and make 50 comments.

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echelon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

There's no chatbot. You can use image-to-image, ControlNets, LoRAs, IPAdapters, inpainting, outpainting, workflows, and a lot of other techniques and tools to mold images as if they were clay.

I use a lot of 3D blocking with autoregressive editing models to essentially control for scene composition, pose, blocking, camera focal length, etc.

Here's a really old example of what that looks like (the models are a lot better at this now) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVgNNJP6Vc

There are lots of incredibly talented folks using Blender, Unreal Engine, Comfy, Touch Designer, and other tools to interface with models and play them like an orchestra - direct them like a film auteur.

	▲	heliumtera an hour ago \| parent [-]
		there is probably more tools to achieve this level of productivity than real humans interested in consuming this goyslop

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gllmariuty 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> AI is a force multiplier for labor capital

for an 2011 account that's a shockingly naive take

yes, AI is a labor capital multiplier. and the multiplicand is zero

hint: soon you'll be competing not with humans without AI, but with AIs using AIs

	▲	Terr_ 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even if it's >1, it doesn't follow that it's good news for the "labor capitalist". "OK, so I lost my job, but even adjusting for that, I can launch so many more unfinished side-projects per hour now!"

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heliumtera an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

always good to be in the pick and shovel biz

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jacquesm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As a rule real creativity blossoms under constraints, not under abundance.

	▲	echelon 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Trying to make a dent in the universe while we metabolize and oxidize our telomeres away is a constraint. But to be more in the spirit of your comment, if you've used these systems at all, you know how many constraints you bump into on an almost minute to minute basis. These are not magical systems and they have plenty of flaws. Real creativity is connecting these weird, novel things together into something nobody's ever seen before. Working in new ways that are unproven and completely novel.

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queenkjuul 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Genuine question: does the agent work for you if you didn't build it, train it, or host it?

It's ostensibly doing things you asked it, but in terms dictated by its owner.

	▲	blibble 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		indeed and it's even worse than that: you're literally training your replacement by using it when it re-transmits what you're accepting/discarding and you're even paying them to replace you