It's how people resisted CGI back in the day. What people dislike is low quality. There is a loud subset who are really against it on principle like we also have people who insist on analog music but regular people are much more practical but they don't post about this all day on the internet.

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trial3 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

perhaps one important detail is that cassette tape guys and Lucasfilm aren’t/weren’t demanding a complete and total restructuring of the economy and society

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Gigachad 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not really. The scale is entirely different. I think less of someone as a person if they send me AI slop.

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gunsle 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think literally everyone could agree CGI has been detrimental to the quality of films.

	▲	Levitz 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"Literally everyone" can't even agree on whether Polio is bad. I myself would disagree that CGI itself is a bad thing.
	▲	delecti 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I could maybe agree in the sense of "has had detrimental effects", but certainly not in the sense of "net detrimental".
	▲	CamperBob2 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		90% of the time, you wouldn't know CGI if you saw it. That's the 'good' CGI. Same thing is true of AI output.
	▲	NitpickLawyer 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Anecdata-- from me. I think cgi can be a net positive.
	▲	xnorswap 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Not just in the obvious ways either, even good CGI has been detrimental to the film (and TV) making process. I was watching some behind the scenes footage from something recently, and the thing that struck me most was just how they wouldn't bother with the location shoot now and just green-screen it all for the convenience. Even good CGI is changing not just how films are made, but what kinds of films get shot and what kind of stories get told. Regardless of the quality of the output, there's a creativeness in film-making that is lost as CGI gets better and cheaper to do.
	▲	sanex 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Project Hail Mary is a great example of not relying on CGI.