a THINKING MACHINE? that WASTES WATER? 🔪
Couple of years ago I saw a video about Chris Chan, and when describing “Sonichu” they labeled it as “creative unoriginality”.
I often think of this term these days.
This (the dune ai thing) is unfortunately uncreative unoriginality, aka straight garbage trash slop.
Sonichu is at least “lol what if my psychotic delusions combined my two favorite characters and i married them” which is, at the very least, interesting. A lot of good and creative characters are just X+Y= new thing
Sonichu is unironically a perfect example of outsider art.
Sonichu was creative compared to people using AI. At least Chris-chan drew it herself!
He took someone’s novel, someone’s animation style, someone’s film look, someone’s likeness, and created an abortion of a animation blending all those other human creations together, all the while using a data centre that consumes water resource and emits carbon dioxide that someone else is paying for.
And yet somehow he takes this as his idea and a win.
28 minutes from idea to export
What idea you dumbfuck? You have only taken a book and ask a chatbot to make a ghibli film out of it. You call that an “idea”? You’re so dumb when this bubble pops you’re gonna starve to death because there is not a chatbot telling you when to eat; and it will be a good thing for the world.
He couldn’t even be arsed to do original casting or costume design, because this looks exactly like Timothy Chalomet and Zendaya in Dennis Villeneuve’s Dune. His idea was “you made dis? …I made dis.”
Well, not exactly like. Zendaya’s appearance has been noticeably altered in one quite specific way.
The AI clearly wants to play it safe in regards to inappropriate depictions of darker skin. Problem solved!
Doesn’t seem crazy far off
It’s not crazy far off, but it is off. Although Paul is off too. He should be paler. They’re both moved closer to the center, which makes her look more off by comparison.
https://bsky.app/profile/wigglewood.bsky.social/post/3lyhahevcws2x
“Oh, is that guy an artist?”
That’s the process not the idea. The idea is “I want these two dune characters to slurp their lips with each other”.
It still sucks tho.
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind. A woman’s mind is far superior.”
-GiiiiiiiiiirlThat’s not how I would use the word “achieve”.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Chani being barely a shade darker than Paul is very sus to me
though given the context I can’t say I’m surprised
And the eyes aren’t even blue
Tbf to them that’s just how anime be. Come to think of it, Naruto was actually insanely woke in its anime time for having actually black characters (even when it made the most prominent one a rapper), that’s something even the otherwise wildly leftist Ghibli works tended to avoid.
Though I think you could argue that characters like San from Princess Mononoke are inclusive of indigenous Japanese groups in a way that’s both underacknowledged and more relevant to daily Japanese life.
that’s something even the otherwise wildly leftist Ghibli works tended to avoid.
I love Ghibli, but “wildly leftist”? Did they make an anarchism PSA or something that I wasn’t aware of?
The way Ghibli’s villains work says something special to me.
The ultimate villain in Howl’s Moving Castle isn’t the Witch of the Wastes or the heart eating fire demon. It’s the court magician causing a war.
The ultimate villain in Spirited Away isn’t the uncaring parents or the dragon no one trusts or the scary spider dude or the grumpy frog guys or the giant baby who hurts Chihiro or even the greed demon. Or the woman who tries to kill the love interest. It’s the woman what owns the bath house.
In Porco Rosso the villain isn’t the air pirates who kidnap children or the asshole rival ace or Porco’s last male friend who joins the fascists. It’s the secret police. It ends with everyone making peace to flee the fascist Italian Air Force.
In Castle In the Sky the air pirates are big softies. The villains are the military and the intelligence officer with the nuke.
That isn’t to say the other villains aren’t bad. The air pirates shoot up a town and rob people. The Witch of the Wastes is cursing everyone. Noh Face eats people! But they are redeemed in my heart. I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe because everyone lives after Noh Face vomits them up. Or because the air pirates can’t hurt the kids they kidnap.
I love The Witch of the Wastes. She never stops being bad. Never stops hurting people. The state cripples her and she still fights back. She fights everyone. Hurts Calcifer. Taunts Howell. She’s so angry. So broken. If she had the power of the state she’d be worse than Madam Sullivan. But she doesn’t.
Porco doesn’t look at the camera and say, “It’s better to be a pig than a fascist.” The whole thing just… Says something. To me at least.
“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist” sounds pretty leftist to me.
Maybe these days. But there’s a gap between being anti-fascist and leftist that includes ideologies that range from center-right to center-left
At least there used to be.
There’s a ton of commentary out there on this but tl;dr Miyazaki was a Marxist in his youth and is probably best recently described as an ecosocialist and all his works reflect values of anti authoritarianism, rejecting patriarchy, environmentalism, and pacifism or at least the rejection of militarism.
He is, in short, a Japanese Green (not literally since there is a Japanese Green party but also possibly literally)
While anime as a medium has a long history of being really, really shit at dark skinned characters, that doesn’t excuse the fact that these models are completely fucking incapable of creating a darker skinned character as a result
Yes, it’s a direct result of how skewed their training data is, but that just calls out how fundamentally flawed the whole process is. A good artist is capable of adopting an anime style while still creating things that are unusual within that style. Just look at the Avatar series. Korra, Kotara and Sokka can all be darker skinned characters that look amazing in a show that still has a distinctly anime look to it.
Characters in anime are not required to be light skinned. That’s a flaw, not a thing to be preserved as if it’s a requirement of the style. Even in actual anime we’re finally starting to see this change for the better. But LLMs cannot produce things that are new or unusual, they can only regress to the mean.
Butlerian moment.
Petition to include this term in the standard vernacular.
We stray closer and closer to 40K with each year ᴖ̈
I see this as an absolute win, well, except for all the bad bits. I just want to be a tech priest of the Cybernetica Thaumiturgica and purge AI
I overheard some woman on her phone the other day say, “Like Jessie, it’s better to die for the emperor than live for yourself yasssss!” A sign of the horror to come.
Can wait to get all Mechanicus with a robo dick, take me future!
Honestly if we have to go full fascism at least let me have an omnissian axe and a couple robotic limbs.
somehow reminds me of people using all the animations in PowerPoint. like “looks how cool this is” instead if “look what I made with it”.
and honestly, maybe the maker was aware of that connection (the one pointed out in the post), u never know. peeps are still peeps even if one doesnt like them.
So would Miyazaki
Tbf so would like, anyone cool
I’ll do it for them. Give me an address
The Ix would be fine with it though…
The butlerian standard barely allows calculators, phone and laptops would be banned and graphing calculator too.
It doesn’t allow calculators at all, right? Isn’t that why they use Mentats?
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Smugglers: “The cobalt must flow.”
