This specific thing is not AI, but that's not actually relevant because this is still an example of the issue at hand. Namely, it's now cheaper to just throw some shitty CG in the background than it is to pay people to be there and executives don't see a problem with this. While this particular example of four or five models may not seem like much (especially using stock-ass animations like that), it's not long before you'll be seeing scenes where fifteen or twenty background extras are replaced by AI driven CG that behaves like someone that played a similar role five years ago whose motions were cataloged and reused.
THAT is the crux of the issue. The studios basically want to scan and own everyone that ever appears onscreen. It's fucking gross, and it needs to die on the vine.
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really don’t understand why everyone uses AI as a term to describe anything generated by a computer.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 1 year ago
Because technical literacy levels have never really improved.
It's why every game console is "a Nintendo" to people over 50.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year ago
I like to play Nintendo on my PlayStation.
xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Someone who’s 50 today would’ve been 12 in 1985 when the NES was released in North America. Basically the target audience.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 1 year ago
Literally nothing you said matters.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The same way they convinced everyone that they should say “cloud” instead of 'on our servers."
They stopped saying “algorithm” and started saying “AI”
Once it’s used as a marketing term, the technical term loses all meaning in conversational language.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
If it’s in your server it’s not in “the cloud”, the cloud is code for “someone else’s server.”
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was thinking more from the marketing perspective " We keep your data on our servers!" verses “We keep your data in the cloud!” since the point was that the marketers of these things in particular are fucking up the terminology.
If you are already in possession of a server then you’re probably aware it’s not a cloud.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 year ago
that’s what they said
match@pawb.social 1 year ago
“cloud” really means “several servers in parallel for redundancy” at which point it is kinda useful
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Thanks to all the clickbait headlines, a lot of people suddenly think everything is AI.
roofuskit@kbin.social 1 year ago
Just like every aircraft with 4 rotors is a drone.