Tom Matuszewski

I make illustrations, animations & other moving image things. I like films and food. Proud Seagull (football tweets @brightonstriker)

[Tom Matuszewski @Motski]

New week, new website, new work for you to have a look at...
https://t.co/gJMVAGZytd

[Tom Matuszewski @Motski]

If the USA make it past Bosnia and Herzegovina, they’ll massacre that Belgium team. Bizarre how Senegal let that slip

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Open letter to Andy Burnham: Ditch Labour’s disastrous stance on AI.

This is important - if you’re in the UK and you care about creatives, I encourage you to sign it.

https://t.co/ke5GuvxtiY

[Holly-Beth @cronenbabe]

the pope needs to have a stern talk with martin scorsese, he needs the fear of god put back into him

[butch sontag @scorsissy]

Marty do u remember the storyboards u used to draw when u were 11, just a kid with asthma aspiring to be a filmmaker? no amount of generative ai could even dare to replicate let alone create this. u went through 6 decades of ur career w/o using any, and u still can. disappointing

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

He throws every single storyboard artist he’s ever worked with under the bus, as he demolishes their livelihoods with models that are likely trained on those story board artist’s same works.

To use his legacy and power for this is just so disgusting.

[Tom Matuszewski @Motski]

Always found his films pretty soulless. So not too surprised by this.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Gareth Edwards is excited about AI filmmaking

"It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera"

He says AI has 'no taste whatsoever' when it comes to generating human stories, but is a 'fucking genius' at helping filmmakers organize ideas, test concepts, and produce images

“I view it like having a second-unit director who is a billionaire on acid”

He eventually wants to make a hybrid generative AI film

(via @THR)

[Tom Matuszewski @Motski]

@campbellclaret Your mate Tony seems to have arranged this on behalf of Mr Ellison and the other AI oligarchs, so you can ask him about the guest list.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Genuinely offensive on so many levels. What a horrifying and listless age, the opposite of innovation

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

As expected, not one person brought up the huge theft of creative work that most generative AI models are based on.

Not only that, but they used AI video - presumably generated by a model based on theft.

A huge lack of balance, and a terrible missed opportunity to educate the public about the exploitative nature of generative AI, which I hope people complain about.

[Tom Matuszewski @Motski]

@castleton_emma @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret He’s also completely in the pocket of Larry Ellison, most of the Tony Blair Institute’s funding comes from him, but I’ve not heard Alistair talk about how problematic this is.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Scraping websites and having AI summarize them, so that no one visits the websites, is theft.

Training AI on videos, so that it can make new videos that compete with them, is theft.

We are witnessing the largest theft of creative work in history.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Elon Musk loses high-profile legal battle against OpenAI boss Sam Altman
https://t.co/stlvQmgn1M

[Sparkle💫 @Neliswa_Nelli]

People are becoming way too comfortable about being horrible human beings

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.

The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to.

Apart from the list of authors involved, the book is empty, representing the effect the government’s plans would have on authors' livelihoods.

We're handing out 1,000 free copies at London Book Fair over the next couple of days. If you’re there, pick up a copy!

A huge thank you to the thousands of authors involved.

Read more here: https://t.co/h3Z9vW1L8J

#DontStealThisBook

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

There's a toxic culture coming out of the AI industry that keeps trying to get us not to think.

The message is everywhere. Don’t read the code, just vibe-code. Don’t try to understand all the text, just let AI summarize it. Don’t bother educating yourself, it’s too late.

Don’t worry about the errors. Trust that everything will be fixed in the next version.

The theme is the same. Don’t think too hard. Just keep swallowing the slop.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

The reason this is tripping people's AI alarm bells is something I've talked about before. It's more like photography in motion rather than what we normally think of as video. I'll explain how that relates to an "AI aesthetic":

The photographer here has taken 210 high-res images in sequence per subject, graded them as stills, and then displayed them at 30fps as video.

In other words, the images have been processed in a manner typically reserved for still photography, on a camera and lens designed for stills, in a studio set up for stills, and now because they've turned it into video, we're seeing a particular style and clarity that's not often seen in motion.

How does this relate to AI? Well, AI video is frequently based on AI still frames which are from models that are trained primarily on photography, rather than video frames. This means we're now seeing styles in full motion that we've only ever seen as static images. See where this is going?

For example, imagine a photo from the mid-2000s trend of overly processed HDR photography, a look very specific to digital photography of that era, and now imagine that in full motion. It would be uncanny and unfamiliar.

Today, we're conditioned to call out anything that feels uncanny or unfamiliar as AI, and because this feels like photography in motion rather than video or film, that's what people are doing.

I also don't think the concept itself helps, showing people's faces contort in intimate, highly detailed closeups, but it is what it is.

Anyway, hope this helps you understand why this feels off and maybe give you some knowledge you can put to use when coming across other stuff online. I'm personally not a fan at all, but for what it's worth, this technique can be quite awesome with the right subject matter.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

@rcbregman This is brilliant. Media Capture Watch has a full dataviz of relationships between media & tech firms & why it matters. I get why Axios & News Corp made purely capitalist decision to take $ but independent progressive news orgs should be nowhere near this
https://t.co/ApAu7SYuKq

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The UK government is hugely overstating how many people their new ‘AI Growth Zone’ will employ.

They announced that it will create 800 full-time jobs. I submitted an FOI request for their calculations, and the real number is probably below 300.

Their headline figure was even bigger - 3,400 jobs. Most of these, though, are temporary construction jobs while the data centres get built.

Spinning <300 permanent jobs as “3,400 jobs” is wild. It seems like yet another attempt by the government to paint AI as a jobs creator, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Full post below.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Artist-washing (verb): to intentionally distract from AI models’ exploitation of creators’ life’s work by finding individual artists willing to use those models

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.