aiislove
16hr ago
Sorry I’m not sure if you’re asking about video or text/scripts, I’m guessing you mean video, and I assume “human generated” means like traditional CGI and/or actors being filmed (I’ll call this combination “Hollywood” going forward) so I’ll answer from that angle
I would say for these two Highsfield videos specifically they are really really close to what Hollywood would look like. Especially taken out of context the ability of AI to mimic the CGI portion is extremely good and I think I’d have to be more familiar with CGI itself to identify the tells. On the other hand there are subtle uncanny valley-esque tells that do give away that it’s AI, like the Asian male character in the first video’s face appears much younger in a handful of scenes than in others which is strange. The women in the first video are much more beautiful than most actresses which also makes it seem fake. The monsters and robots and environments/action sequences in both videos are so good that I don’t think I would know they were AI vs trad CGI. Voices were sometimes inconsistent from the same character and more importantly lacked the distinctiveness of real voices.
I could go on, I think the conclusion I’d draw is much the same as the conclusion that I’d draw from ai chat bots or ai still image generation which is that all of these tools are very good at getting you to like 90% of a perfect product but it’s the last 10 crucial percent that it’s almost never able to achieve. In certain domains you can manually bridge the gap with a bit of human intervention but it varies from task to task.
Not as relevant but I also noticed that there is an issue with AI generation in general VS human work: when humans create something, the person making it nearly always does the best they can, or in the least something that they wouldn’t be embarrassed to produce given their level of skill or experience. And we are usually not overly critical of other people’s work, when they do a task for you we tend to accept it as their work. But with AI generation the latter problem is an issue where the person checking the AI generation is willing to approve work that is of a lower quality than what any human would produce because it took nearly zero time to produce and it wasn’t their own work so you might as well let it go through. Besides that correcting the final 10% to get it to perfect could take a massive amount of time, so in the end you might produce 100 times as much content but it’s all 90% as good so you think you’ll get 90 winners but the Pareto principle reveals that the final 10% is crucial to anything being good enough to succeed so you’ll run into rapidly collapsing returns
aiislove
2d ago
Wow, these are really good.
For the longest time ai video generation was really bad with style consistency and character consistency but I didn't notice any problems with these at all. My background is in design/visual art and I think they look really good visually. At first I didn't like the constant cuts which I took as downstream from ai generation but it does seem consistent with the action genre so maybe it was a choice and not a technical issue.
The worst part is that the dialogue and text seems really obviously generated. The lyrics in the song at the end of your second link is fully just copied from another real song ("Ooh I love you so, but why I love you, I never know") but it's way worse in the ai version.
aiislove
2d ago
Black Men tend to see themselves as more masculine. I'm gonna argue here that this perception is largely harmful to themselves and to the community at large.
This is not a problem for black men. Men of any race benefit from masculinity in any event or situation where they are not cucked sissy hypno'd humiliation ritual'd invited into the realm of feminine dominated status politics. Sexual competition favors masculinity for men. Evolutionary psychology points to dominant masculine males as the most desirable people to mate with. Women and gay men (such as myself) are programmed from millennia of sexual competition and successful fertility and resource scarcity to seek the best mates they can.
You go on to propose that black men should be encouraged to be less masculine, basically. In other words you are trying to bring him down to a level where you can compete with him as you are a non-black man. It doesn't work, it is ridiculous, it all falls apart the second you hit the real world. The black man "studying ballet and in education" is cringe but still more masculine than the white man "studying ballet and in education" and yet more masculine than the Asian man "studying ballet and in education." The ballet and reeducation is going to solve nothing but be a ridiculous charade. At the end you can point to the black harvard educated ballerina and say, ah good, he got the girl because he played the game on my white bourgeois terms: in elegance and sophistication and education, and now I don't have to rip apart my entire worldview where I believe men should be chosen based on their elegance and sophistication and education, rather than submit to the stark reality that women choose mates based on primal instinct of masculinity and dominance and physical power which you or the less dominant man knows he can't compete at and win.
Much of sex and race relations are totally conflated due to the dual-variable situation. Basically, the races of people who have more desirable masculine traits are the opposite stack from the races of people who have more desirable feminine traits. Black men are more masculine and dominant than white men who are more masculine and dominant than latino and asian men. Asian and latino women are more feminine and attractive than white women who are more feminine and attractive than black women. This is why so much of modern day US race relations are so broken: Polite society is dominated by women's concerns, and white women are more attractive than black women, and in a feminine twist of slave morality (or christian love, or judeo-christian David vs. Goliath ethics) women get to forever place the lives and souls of Black people above their own because it doesn't actually ever interfere with how they as white women are hotter than black women, and get to simultaneously reap the benefits of socially accepted dominant (black) male mate selection and humiliation of the inferior emasculated white or asian man.
The fact that white or Asian men come up with the solution you propose, over and over again, leads only to their humiliation and constant misunderstanding of what a woman wants from them. The answer isn't to bring the more dominant men into the same humiliation rituals they are burdened with, it is to avoid having to compete with more dominant males to begin with.
I also wouldnt be surprised if many of these women were "less feminine" than their non-black counterparts, particularly because black women are in a more violent and aggressive environment, that demands more masculine behavior as a matter of survival. This is more of a hunch than something I have direct evidence for.
I suspect Black women are less feminine than their non-black counterparts because every Black women I've ever met is more masculine than I am (as a white male.) White men will never admit this but let's go through some observations. In sexual dimorphism within the same ethnicity, women tend to have lighter skin than men. So a Black woman is already starting from a distance and at a glance to have a more masculine presentation than any man who isn't darker than she is. In the extremes, of course, there are cute and feminine Black women like Duckie Thot who I think is very cute but she is at the far end of the bell curve in terms of neoteny and half of her female relatives are probably more butch than your average white or Latino or Asian man.
IMO there is a great dignity in ethnostates that doesn't exist in diverse settings. In Japan, there is a great diversity of people in a positive way. Your construction worker is Japanese, your lawyer is Japanese, your doctor is Japanese, your priest is Japanese, your emperor and your empress and your prime minister are all Japanese. There is phenotypical diversity in Japan, yes, but culturally, everyone is Japanese, and there is a dignity in that you know the place you end up in society is a product of your own work and your own ability. In America, your construction workers are Mexican, your lawyer is a WASP or a Jew, your doctor is Nigerian, your priest is Italian, your president is half nigerian or part cheetoh or whatever. What of the Mexicans who want to be a lawyer and not a construction worker? The Jew who would be happiest laying bricks? We have a great illusion of choice but once you notice the specialization of race linked to profession it's a bit sad.
There are no black pretty boys, like we see with asians.
Again there actually are black pretty boys. Usher is pretty. There are Black ladyboys and Black trans women and Black cross dressers and anything else you can imagine. Your insistence that there are no black pretty boys is an artifact of your judgment of Black people by white or nonblack standards. Black men can point at Usher or other pretty black men and say those are the pretty ones. If you are white and can't imagine Black men being pretty it's because you can't step outside of your viewpoint in your judgment compared with them which is the sexual selective competition problem I'm trying to illustrate. To contrast and reinforce the point, of course you mention asian "pretty boys" because if you're outside of the Asian community then nearly all Asian men are to the "pretty" side of things compared with you.
The first step with black women is to get them on some kind of glp-1
So I think the problem is women need to stop desiring dominance or rather they need to stop putting themselves in positions that require dominant positions. I have a friend who happens to be an obese Black woman. I have experience with weight loss so she sometimes asks me for advice about it. One time she confided in me that she had been thinner in the past, but that she was "afraid people would beat her up." This is a real fear, and is also consistent with needing to have a bit of weight to throw around to assert dominance. In the past 10 years I have weighed 300 and I have weighed 190 lb and from experience, at 300 people are much less likely to mess with you than at 190. Women, especially those who live in an urban environment, are put in positions where they feel they need to dominate things physically. Nomadic women in Mongolia or city girls in China- or even rural/nonurban northern European women, despite what the immigration doomers will have you believe, have no such social threats that they find themselves needing to become obese to assert domination. Women and poor people are not going to start dropping weight en masse until everyone does as it's a sort of cold war (american obesity skyrocketed at the same time that racial integration became more ubiquitous.)
Another step that needs to be emphasized is what a healthy relationship actually looks like, and how to select a dude who will give you a healthy relationship. I have an intuition that this skill, particularly with black women, is somewhat lacking, hence high multi-partner fertility
This attitude is so arrogant to me, people do what they're programmed to do, why are you trying to socially engineer their behavior to begin with? She can choose the more sexy masculine dominant male over the really sweet guy, the problem isn't her, the really sweet guy if he's such a great partner needs to man up and express his masculinity in addition to his ability to take care of his mate and offspring at the same time. If someone whose brain is designed to opt for a masculine dominant mate who are you to encourage her to go against her millennia of programming in favor of you and your preferences, the less dominant male? What's in it for anyone but you?
aiislove
3d ago
I had the opposite experience. I hated Pink Pony Club the first ten thousand times I heard it and then I decided to give up and now I love it :(
aiislove
3d ago
Persona 1, Persona 2: EP and IS, Super Mario RPG, FFIX, FFVIII, FFVII. Saga Frontier. Prerendered backgrounds look so much better than anything full 3d. Legend of Mana. I love the art and some of the graphics from the Rune Factory series but they are really a hot mess and basically unplayable as actual games imo.
aiislove
15d ago
Yeah women shouldn't be seducing men, men need to have agency to perform sexually. All women need to do is express a bit of interest to the point that the man has the confidence to get it up and to know that she's not going to turn him down. The more she does the more likely she is to scare him off. Man being scared off is off-putting to a woman as well who at least wants a man to have the confidence to believe he is worthy of screwing her.
aiislove
24d ago
I got 49% German and 24% autistic.
I have a lot of German ancestry on both sides (and I'm Swiss (Basel) on my mom's side which is like luxury German.) I also have a ton of engineers among all my uncles and one of them seems sort of autistic but might just be "German." I don't know. I usually mildly dislike Germans and Austrians who I have met in my life, who I tend to interpret at pedantic in a way that reminds me of my mother. An Irishman I once met in Greece described Germans as "corny" and I have always thought, yes, that's the word for Germans ever since. I prefer the parts of my family who are Scots Irish because they don't tend to ground their nonsense in the self righteous superiority of my more Germanic descended relatives and embrace more openly the messiness of unknowability which the German wants only to stamp out. Of course I am making most of this up from my attempts at picking out cultural traits from my travels and cross matching with my family tree. I am descended from Mayflower pilgrims on one side and the most recent immigration I'm descended from was the Basler in the 1840s on the other so trying to unwind current day traits from my mangy puddle of Americanized Euro genetics is imprecise at best.
I find it fascinating the degree to which "narcissism" and "autism" traits overlap. One of my best friends' ex boyfriends is a programmer and I can't tell if he's autistic or a narcissist. I have never been close or even spent much time with anyone who has openly told me they are autistic or even "on the spectrum." I have met in passing strange loud children whose caretakers have told me these children are "autistic." I suspect autism is a side effect of being raised in bizarre urban or suburban environments which are at once overstimulating in their social excess and understimulating in their artificiality and distance from nature. Was it Tao Lin who claimed that at current rates, everyone in America will be on the autism spectrum in 100 years or something like that? I don't know. Sometimes when I'm in East Asia I believe that everyone around me is autistic. I don't mean that in an offensive way at all as I love East Asia and spend as much time as I can there but the efficiency that even grocery checkout ladies operate frankly reads as autistic to me compared to everybody else.
aiislove
24d ago
Where are you from? A lot of this reminds me of like the culture of Philly or Jersey area but I feel like east coasters interrupt each other constantly. Northern Appalachia maybe? I'm guessing you're in your 40s or older?
What is the general reaction internationally to the US war against Iran? Like, is western Europe as anti-USA as they are anti-Russia in the context of the Ukraine-Russia conflict? How are people in other countries reacting to or viewing it so far?
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