Comment on Terry Gilliam says he doesn't have enough money to make ‘The Carnival at the End of Days'

• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you want to oversimplify future expectations of a brand-new technology to two loaded words.

  The people insisting it’ll never be useful are as off-base as the grifters insisting it’s the next everything. Right now, on consumer hardware, you can take a photograph of a toy spaceship and tell your video card to make it look real, and it will. No kidding we’re gonna see that used professionally.

  Even if we’re still way too early - sometimes the alternative is that a thing does not get made. Fancy new ways of faking stuff don’t need to be flawless, when they’re competing with non-existence. Early special effects were laughable. Early CGI was hideous. But they did things a production couldn’t possibly do, or couldn’t afford to do. If this stew of linear algebra and pirated DVDs lets weirdos like Gilliam show us a mildly gloopy version of what’s going on his head, with a budget he can scrounge together in less than thirty goddamn years - great. I’d rather have a mildly gloopy movie than what-ifs.

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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Right now, on consumer hardware, you can take a photograph of a toy spaceship and tell your video card to make it look real, *and it will.*

    Out of curiosity, what can you use for that? I haven’t kept up with AI, but that sounds like the sort of thing that my kid would love to try :)

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Stable Diffusion seems to be the done thing. Apparently you provide a list of tags with numeric weights, and it “denoises” all the ways the image doesn’t fit. From-scratch images are generated from a canvas full of random noise.

      Basically “remove all the marble that doesn’t look like a statue.” The missile knows where it is because it knows where it is not.

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      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ah, ok. I thought it was just for generating from scratch. I’ll give it a try, thanks :)

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