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[Art Directors Guild @ADG800]

The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 #adg800 has issued a statement on Martin Scorsese’s recent promotion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI):

"Mr. Scorsese, The Business is not in flux.

Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese is turning his back on the human artists who throughout his career have helped him create his most memorable works.

In the recently released Black Forest Labs video promoting their generative AI product FLUX, Mr. Scorsese asks the question, “how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew?” He claims the solution is the use of this generative AI program to do the jobs that are rightfully the jurisdiction of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers - human artists and designers who have been successfully collaborating with directors to visualize their films for decades. Mr. Scorsese's promotion of a generative AI product circumvents the input of Art Directors Guild Local 800 art directors, graphic artists, illustrators, production designers, scenic artists, set designers, and other talented Union professionals.

Generative AI is only capable of producing this type of “cinematic intelligence” by ingesting large swaths of copyrighted work, likely scraped from the internet without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.

The skills of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers bring the highest level of value to any film or television production. To think their professional contributions can be mimicked or outshone by generative AI, which is built on work likely stolen from them and many other artists from around the world, is a betrayal of the collaborative nature of cinema."

[big G @FotopNation]

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[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

The herbicide Glyphosate is one of the likely culprits in America’s chronic disease epidemic. Much more widely used here than in Europe. Shockingly, much of our exposure comes from its use as a desiccant on wheat, not as an herbicide. From there it goes straight into our bodies. My USDA will ban that practice.

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

Oh shit this is why it is being pushed so hard.

It is literally a psyop made to impress current year moral values on the past.

Government agencies probably paid to have this movie made, with its exact demographics.

"This is the West"

Literal wartime propaganda.
1984 tier.

[Utah Political Watch @utahpolitics]

A week after a powerful state authority chaired by Utah Senate President Stuart Adams approved a 40,000-acre data center project, five donors with business before the same authority dropped $135,000 into his PAC. All on the same day. #utpol

https://t.co/6Pdy2RsRmD #utpol

[Commie Trucker @commie_trucker]

We need to demolish Data Centers and plant forests on golf courses.

[big G @FotopNation]

@kevinolearytv con man and a crook.

build the data center on your own backyard if really need it.

[big G @FotopNation]

@ZPostFacto I find it interesting that anyone who pressed the blue button would turn around and use genAI ignoring all the dangers it presents to humanity.

It's almost as if the blue button is a virtue signal and using genAI (pressing the red button) is the action you take in real life.

[big G @FotopNation]

@NilesSankey Starring:
- 'Old' Chief
- Rampant Cortana
- The Arbiter

Sahelanthropus to Sangheili pipeline complete.

Kojima halo could unironically be peak

[Rev. Mark @MarkyF_]

In honor of the Bruins playing the Sabres here is Jack Edwards call from when the Bruins eliminated them in the first round of the 2010 playoffs

[big G @FotopNation]

@Oracle Close loop cooling remains a theoretical myth and the equation is thrown off when heat rises as chips get smaller and demand increases.

You're bleeding lines to evaporate water in order to remove toxic sludge.

Why does Oracle continue to lie to the public and their employees?

[big G @FotopNation]

@bryan_johnson we have to first fix our food supply if we stand a chance to live long https://t.co/W9LZSHPDmz

[Junaid #JB17 @JunaidSamodien_]

Tom Schutze: "It was so bad... hahaha. PS: the car overtook me a lot." #Nürburgring #DTM

[Naca @F1ToRuleThemAll]

emergency ritual

[Brad Keselowski @keselowski]

We have a @FordRacing cup car ready to go. Feel free to DM when you’re ready Max

[RIP MASSACHUSETTS @theripsnorter]

Massachusetts is the only state where all three branches of government collectively claim to be exempt from the state's public records law.

An extreme outlier. #1 for Lack of Transparency.

[hiroshi @daddynohara]

> be me, applied scientist at amazon
> spend 6 months building ML model that actually works
> ready to ship
> manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?"
> show him 37 pages of technical documentation
> "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?"
> model literally convinces customers to buy more stuff they don't need
> "okay but are you thinking Big Enough?"
> mfw I am literally increasing sales
> okay lets ship it
> PM says there's not enough Disagree and Commit
> we need to disagree about something
> team spends 2 hours debating whether the config file should be YAML or JSON
> engineering insists on XML "for backwards compatibility"
> what backwards compatibility, this is a new service
> doesn't matter, we disagree and commit to XML
> finally get approval to deploy
> "make sure you're frugal with the compute costs"
> model runs on a potato, costs $2/month
> finance still wants a cost breakdown
> write 6-pager about why we need $2/month
> include bar raiser in the review
> bar raiser asks "but can we do it for $1.50? we need to be Frugal"
> spend another month optimizing to hit $1.50
> ready to deploy again
> VP decides we need to "Invent and Simplify"
> requests we rebuild the entire thing using a new framework
> framework doesn't exist yet
> "show some Ownership and build it yourself"
> 3 months later, framework is half done
> org restructure happens
> new manager says this doesn't align with team goals anymore
> project cancelled
> model never ships
> manager gets promoted to L8 for "successfully reallocating resources"
> team celebrates with 6-pager retrospective about what we learned
> mfw we delivered on all 16 leadership principles
> mfw we delivered nothing else
> amazon.jpg

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS

[Kylan O'Connor @kylancodes]

Vibe coders be like 👨‍💻

[big G @FotopNation]

@terrellowens its salty peyton fanboys still butthurt

[Mike Chappell @mchappell51]

I'm not going to respond to many comments, but I'll make an exception. As I mentioned in the story, I tend to favor a Senior candidate over a coach/GM. Belichick will almost assuredly get in next year. If these Senior guys don't make it, they might never get a chance. I'm not going to mention the 2 Seniors I voted for. It's not a simple case of which is a better nominee. And this has zero to do with the Patriots. I voted for Kraft. I stood up and presented Vinny, whose career began with 3 SB wins with New England.
As for Polian and Dungy talking against Belichick, that simply did not happen. There are facts and then there is crap people who weren't in the room insist on putting out there.