XG’s Cocona stuns in new photos:
“HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. Life’s too short to fit yourself into a box. Labels don’t matter. We’re all human. Be yourself. Or don’t define yourself at all. Live freely. Just live your life, your way. LOVE 🤍🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️”
EXCLUSIVE: ESPN used AI to help create several visuals for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the network tells @FOS, and is “evaluating” whether it will continue.
An image of Tony Parker drew online backlash, but there were other visuals, including one of Bill Russell.
Yup. Outsourcing your control and decision making to a Slop Slot Machine is why AI doesn’t make sense in the Arts. Whatever it spits out, you can’t explain why you “chose” that detail, because you didn’t choose anything.
'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons isn't a fan of generative AI
"If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would"
"Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me"
He thinks there may be uses in tedious VFX labor 'but right now it's difficult to discuss objectively because there's so much at stake and so many genuinely harmful consequences already happening"
(via @australian)