Things You Just Don't Care About

AI-generated art

The Avatar sequel.

AI-generated art

this doesn't even need to exist. AI will only create bad art when it's asked to, it will never take the initiative

^^^ that looks like the textbook example of "not my thing." I never saw the first one. xp

not to get into a big argument here, but this is the point about AI art I understand the least. I've seen so many stunning and weird images come out of the AI world over the past year+. I think it's a mistake to look at it as a replacement for this or that other type of art, and just see it as it's own medium that generates it's own strange aesthetics.

I think I've just gotten weary of the sheer amount of it - it's just everywhere on the internet now, and it's hard for me to stay interested at this point

AI only creates images, not art. An AI-generated image becomes art only through the agency of a human who selects it and 'sponsors' it as art.

and yeah, Avatar sequel otm

the vast majority of it is unoriginal, derivative, dull, or just plain bad, exactly like every other type of art ever

xposts

Add: if the human sponsor is a bad artist, they will only be capable of selecting and sponsoring 'bad AI art'. This was always true of bad artists. What AI adds to this process of making bad art is mind-boggling speed and ease, so thousands of images can be generated in a single workday. This sucks.

when midjourney gets used to generate stills from imaginary nightmarish terry gilliam films, it rules. But it’s sad that so many people seem to use it for making ye old gaudy flashy cyberdelic goa trance compilation type illustrations

hey now, that cuts a bit too close there

right now, my job

I'd be interested in an AI generated Avatar movie maybe, but only if it wasn't 100 hours long

AI generated Emoji movie

spotify wrapped, mine or yours

On my social media feed, the AI art battle is being fought by two sides that equally have no fucking idea what they're talking about.

Chalk it up to the Sneetchification of the net

it's an extremely annoying argument, like there are obviously ethical questions involved, and there's also lots of shitty art floating around, but it's also just a new and unique medium and has already been the source of some really cool stuff and will continue to develop in weird unexpected ways. it's neither the end of the world or any better than anything else.

the ones acting the smuggest about it are the ones sharing info that is laughably wrong, even by the very very little I know about it.

they think someone is cramming framed art into a cd rom drive piece by piece and it's coming back out as new art

the AI art bothers me less than the AI writing which is clearly eventually going to be a big issue in academic settings.

oh yeah. I mean aren't they already auto-writing blogs?

it's just the people who are screaming about AI Art weren't doing it after Dall*E came out and other things like that, they waited for Lensa AI to get popular and their friends to start posting selfie art, and THEN they started moaning. because it's a chance to smugly brag about how you're not stupid enough to pay $4 for AI art in which the privacy agreement might be sketch (just like literally every app on the planet, including Facebook), and how also you're a true art aficionado and not ripping artists off like everyone else.

sorry if I'm not gonna be lectured by someone who proclaimed they were TeamJohnny during Amber Heard-Depp trial

the Harry/Meghan Netflix show

it's gonna come out that the avatar sequels ARE ai generated art and I'm gonna be so smug about it

They better be

I would watch any movie written by Talk To Transformer as long as the acting is sincere

let's be real, soderbergh is gonna do that if he hasn't already

glass fucken onion

sorry, middle-aged internet person: while I'm impressed by your ability to report from the front lines of youth culture without even leaving your living room, I really don't care what your 13-year-old thinks about Hogwarts Legacy or Avatar 2 or the new Bonamassa record

it is a ridiculous and too-often-used ploy by reviewers, yes

ugh

Let me try this out: a certain band I was unfamiliar with showed up in my algorithmic year-end wrap-up because they are one of my daughter’s favorites and so…I will have listen to them myself and get back to you.

your ugly shithead colonial flag and your ugly shithead colonial mindset

podcasts of any sort whatsoever

Rotten Tomatoes on one end and “Film Twitter” on the other

Whether other people's travel choices are sufficiently "authentic" as opposed to "packaged."

Yo I work 51 weeks a year and during the week I get to relax, I don't feel like I need to backpack across the Himalayas and stay in a a yurt and study the local culture and drink yak milk directly from the yak. It does not harm you at all if I just stay at a beach resort having pina coladas brought to me while I read.

Fuck right off the the self-righteousness.

If you want to experience authentic Cameroonian cuisine, bicycle through Hungary or $4 a day, drink chicha all night with the colorful band of Peruvian musicians who you met at the fruit market and who generously took you in despite having no language in common etc etc... that's cool, rock on.

But if someone else just wants to doze in a hammock for a week, that's cool too.

Given the last three years, "sitting in a comfortable place in the sun doing nothing" feels like the ultimate vacation.

The Oscar nomination "controversy"

when someone throws a basketball in the hoop from really far away

That mail won't deliver itself

Throwing the ball in the hoop from very far away is kind of like delivering the mail in the game Paperboy! Maybe that’s how I should think about it. I’d like to care about it because every social media platform believes that I want to see videos of strangers making shots from half court

10x more exciting though than a civilian attempting a 30-yard field goal.

except when said civilian sets up a fake play and runs into the endzone.

Of paperboys and mailmen

James Cameron's Avatar franchise.

Not that I don't care, per se, but the rush to condemn DiCaprio for dating a 19 year old, when as of yet the only evidence is then pictured together at a party and both denied being in a relationship.

I get his past behavior making it easy to believe, and fine, if you want to excoriate him for that, but it creeps me out a little when the public pretends to know more about someone's relationship than they do

Steve Albini's tweets

(cue up somebody calling me for s-posting on that thread, which maybe only proves my point)

Sam fucking Smith

the downing of mysterious flying objects