Devin

Animator | Small Biz | Vball Dad | Downbeat & House | Batman | No genAI

[Devin @devinstated]

@reset_by_peer The handful of billionaires are, or will eventually become, the ACTUAL “gatekeepers.” Why can so many not foresee this and so eager to hand over the keys to them?

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@GuyLambertUK Maybe the solution is to sit them all down in front of a copy of Zork.

[donovan (#AIArtisThief,#CreateDontScrape ) @donovanmartin5]

Instead of supporting this, go Support actual animated films like Forgotten Island or Wildwood that is in a few weeks.

Those actually deserve your attention!

[Devin @devinstated]

@Rahll It's not enough to knock this, we need back it up by turning out for Forgotten Island and, more importantly IMO, Wildwood.

[Devin @devinstated]

@Bentist Also, to clarify, I wasn’t suggesting that you had no experience in these mediums. Instead, I was noting the lack of empathy when dunking on someone whose industry is being cratered while yours remains largely (at this point) unaffected.

Take care.

[Devin @devinstated]

@Bentist Serious question... Why, as a dentist, does trying to own someone in a completely different field, bring you such overwhelming joy? Careers and livelihoods are being exploited and destroyed. Families are being affected.

I simply don't understand the cruelty and entitlement.

[Devin @devinstated]

@NemPerez In most cases, it also requires the theft of billions of man hours.

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@Bentist Never going to agree and that’s ok.

Exploitation is not a narrative. The models would not exist w/o theft. The heads of these companies openly admit it.

The only elitists/gatekeepers are the tech billionaires controlling it.

The no access argument is tired and disingenuous.

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@DuckieLouise Same reason they also buy up and horde everything during a crisis. They are a bunch of self-absorbed, entitled human shells without empathy. They are all tiny echoes of the same self-righteous, rich a-holes that released the technology w/o a single moral or ethical qualm.

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@jimstewartson For all this “creativity” and boundaries that are supposed to be opening, all I see is a bunch of copying and regurgitating of other ppl’s effort, work, and ideas.

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@Stretchedwiener Current societal mindset… Forget effort on my part. I’m entitled to yours.

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@ThemeParkScout Vote with your wallet and support true artistry. Go see Laika's Wildwood.

https://t.co/SpPis9Cpqd

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@BenjaminDEKR No fan of Adobe's practices but, yeah, let's instead give all our money to 5-6 delusional billionaires intent on further enriching themselves, each day making it more difficult for families to pay their bills and put food on their tables. Totally not predatory or evil...

[Devin @devinstated]

If you have the opp to catch, “Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA,” go! Caught it at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture. The fam and I loved it.

https://t.co/gwOATxafQB

[Devin @devinstated]

Excitedly looking forward to this. I can only hope that the craft and artistry get through to some of the audience. We need a mental and societal reset.

[LAIKA @LAIKAStudios]

Courage is the greatest power. WILDWOOD. In theatres everywhere October 23.

[Devin @devinstated]

@turnislefthome Congrats! It’s nice (and, lately, rare) to see positive news for legit working artists.

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@KevinPicchi As much as I detest Adobe, I don’t foresee this as being a good trend and direction for the future.

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@cgpov For someone that's been standoffish with AI, what's the burn rate for data usage and tokens when running these tasks via the MCP? Is there a way to provide some manner of measure to understand this?

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@Hunter_Weiss No one is going to forfeit their prior revenue for the lost bread and butter billable so will everything move to project pricing only?

[Devin @devinstated]

@MarioJoos …but ripping away the prosperity of the masses and their families for a few gatekeeper billionaires is just fine, right?