Reid Southen

🎬 Film concept artist and illustrator. 🎞️ Alien: Earth, Matrix, Marvel, DC, Transformers, Woman King, Jupiter Ascending, 1923, Hunger Games.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

I figured I'd post a little bit of my Matrix Resurrections work here.
These were done under the production design of Hugh Bateup and Peter Walpole, and the direction of Lana Wachowski.
These are some designs from IO, including Niobe's keep and the Morpheus shrine.
Hope you enjoy!

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@Pigeonsdestroy @gairkqnuni What do you mean. If I'm using a recording, then I'm going to be paying for it, or using something that's creative commons or public domain. That's your problem right there, you just assume everyone is stealing anyway, so why can't you.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

2026: Relax, he's just using AI for storyboards!

2027: They're just using it for all the concepts and VFX!

2028: It's mostly AI, but there are still real actors!

2029: It's all AI generated, but human still wrote it!

2030: Well, a human came up with the idea!

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

"They’ll need to figure it out legally and ethically."

So you admit these things aren't legal or ethical? Yet you choose to engage with them anyway, and you feel like that's NOT entitlement?

Also, nobody did anything illegal or unethical in your example, it's not a comparison, it's a strawman.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@Pigeonsdestroy @gairkqnuni Excuse me? The vast, vast majority of the data used that makes these things function is stolen material. You think because they license from a very small percentage of people that makes it all okay? If I pay for a snickers, can I take a milky way and a skittles as well? Grow up.

[Josh Raby @JoshRaby]

It’s clear a lot of people view making art as “special dude pulls special idea out of their special little head fully whole” like some divine game of Operation. I just think that’s an impoverished and incurious way to see it. I wouldn’t want it even if these robots could deliver.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@Pigeonsdestroy @gairkqnuni Hey, real quick, did any of those other technologies literally have to steal from people in order to function?

Yes, I'm entitled to call out immoral, unethical thieving.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@jennykrakovsky Why are you concerned about the so-called gate if you claim no one wants to enter it anyway. Just keep walking.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@Pigeonsdestroy @gairkqnuni It's not my job to tell you how to finance a creative project without using unethical models trained on stolen work. I'm not sure why you feel entitled to the work and labor of other people to bring your project to life.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@DEADLINE Fuck off.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Antony Starr speaks out against AI

"'[AI] is coming no matter what' ... bla bla. Recent movies have proven that people want human stories. Not big ridiculous VFX-driven nonsense"

"Ever tried to go to an Al movie premiere? The cast are horrible and they hate their human fans"

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@Pumpfun No amount of legalese will protect you from the lawsuits that will inevitably hit your grift ass company.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@MisterFizz @randallmakart @CTropes I'm responding to this. You're implying it's impossible for it to happen, I'm proving to you it's not. Do with that info what you will.

https://t.co/BbysZ7iTNj

[Jedi Master F’izz @MisterFizz]

@randallmakart @CTropes That’s not correct, there may be copyrighted material in the training data but AI doesn’t actually spit back out the training data.

An AI trained on Star Wars creatures still won’t spit out this exact guy.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@HarlzTheDev @AndrewFromDO I don't think anyone's in danger of learning composition from a tweet, haha.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@Pigeonsdestroy @gairkqnuni All that and you didn't answer my question or explain why you're talking about it costing 'millions of dollars' when it's clear that the money is for A-list talent and not how much an immersive audio book or radio play usually costs.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@DEADLINE What do you mean?

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@InternetGrape @DaveBlass That's not a real quote.

If you meant, "Good artists copy, great artists steal," which also can't be definitively attributed to Picasso, then I think you should be aware that it's a metaphor, and not meant to be taken literally.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@readysetgopal I would love to work for you, can I have access to your training data? I'd love to see what's in there.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@telios_delorca @gran1te_mtn You kiss your mom with that mouth?

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@chhopsky Perfect anal-ogy.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@MisterFizz @randallmakart @CTropes I'm not here to argue about the specifics of the Supergirl situation, I'm here to show you how these things work. Feel free to get hyper specific about one example in order to pretend AI doesn't steal. It's literally inserting random characters into shots without being asked to.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

I can't find a reliable source of the audio book's budget, do you have one that isn't AI? And fair if it did, but you realize the main cost on something like that is literally just big name actors, right? You can find incredibly immersive CBS mystery broadcasts from decades ago that didn't cost anywhere close to millions.