I read an article about how Bollwood is using AI to make movies now, because their unions aren’t as strong or some such and AI is gonna terk der jerbs. It wasn’t revealed until the end of the article that what they are actually doing using motion capture, the same thing Hollywood does for CGI characters. Some guy is running around on an empty soundstage in that little green suit with balls all over it, the same as in Hollywood. It’s just that instead of using under paid and overworked graphics houses that go bankrupt because the it’s a race for the bottom, they are paying to use someone’s AI video tech that is making other jobs.
This is all to say; AI left to it’s own devices really can’t interpret complex scenes and animate them. It can make a farting Trump baby for sure, but the moment you try to direct it to have the farting Trump baby to adjust his hair like it’s a wig while he farts, the AI is going to assume the hair is a monkey and have it transform and start running around; trust me, I know. But, to that end I gave the same prompt and image files to both XAI’s Grok and Google’s Veo 3.1. First the prompt, then the results.
Do not change the art style or character designs. The character in red is Gravity Man, his power is the power of gravity, as he walks his feet stick to the concrete, if he throws something it comes back to him, some things orbit around him. The character in blue is Orbit Boy, he his a Japanese midget caught in orbit around Gravity Man, he wears a business suit and glasses, he has a mustache. The style is 1940s comic book. Based on the Fleischer Superman cartoons. They are in the city fighting a mud monster. 1941-1943 Fleischer Studios Superman cartoon style, classic Fleischer animation aesthetic, bold black ink outlines with slight line flicker, vibrant limited color palette of deep blues reds and golds, high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting, dramatic noir shadows, Art Deco skyscrapers and industrial cityscapes, thick cel-painted backgrounds, rubber-hose influenced but more realistic anatomy for Superman, powerful stylized poses, pulp comic energy, 1940s cinematic lighting, hand-drawn 2D animation look, slight grain and film texture GRAVITY MAN stands in a heroic pose as ORBIT BOY whizzes around him. THE MUD MONSTER now grabs MARGO METTLESOME @330d9b35-45c0-474a-b941-46510c805304 .
MARGO METTLESOME
Help!
GRAVITY MAN
Unhand her, you menacing miscreant!
GRAVITY MAN approaches the monster, still struggling to walk. He stands in front of the monster.
GRAVITY MAN (CONT’D)
I warn you, rancorous ruffian, release her!
As GRAVITY MAN speaks, ORBIT BOY’s orbit takes him through the monster, with each rotation he passes through it, slowly chopping it down.
Google Veo 3.1
Grok Imagine
Somehow I don’t think that is how an actual animator would handle that scene. Animators, your jerbs are safe for now.
I used to know a guy who was an animator for The Simpsons. His job was “layout”, so they’d give him a pre-recorded soundtrack and the basics of the scene, and he’d draw the characters as line drawings. He had a lot of leeway on how to compose the scene. After that, they’d send the file to Korea and someone cheaper would clean up and color it.
Sounds like right now, some of those later stages could be done by AI.
The second Orbit Boy is dressed more appropriately for knocking bits of mud off of a monster.
Margo is very leggy.
And about 8′ tall.
I see no problem with that.
Yes
Grok got a little bleedthrough from Popeye. The girl looks like Olive Oyl.
Um actually, it’s Lois Lane from the 1940s Superman shorts.
Also, Grok’s background is melting.
🥳
I just won the lottery.
How should I spend my $25?
$20 downtown and two apple pies from McDonald’s.
two apple pies from McDonald’s
*looks up urban dictionary entry*
I’m not going along with that plan.
More lottery tickets, duh.
🤔
How should I spend my $25?
Buy material for your 3D printer and build a ghost gun.
That would only cover a spool of PLA, which wouldn’t be the best choice for that application.
The hype around AI is incredible. On YouTube and social media, you see a lot of “AI will replace all workers”, and “AI will become sentient and kill all humans.” A lot of this is AI companies driving up their value. Some people say that like any other technology such as cars and computers, we’ll just settle in and things will get better. I think a better comparison is social media, which didn’t exactly turn out as promised.
This weekend I asked Grok a few questions. First, I asked who correctly predicted the negative effects of social media; then I asked what those same people are predicting about AI. There was some doomerism about the end of humanity, but most had concerns about people relying on it too much and becoming dumb, economic shocks from replacing workers, more addictions to slop content, and having just a few individuals in charge of everything,
Based on your test, we *could* see some of those things, but we’re not 100% there yet.
It’s the next Tulipmania. I don’t know how people keep feeding this craze.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I want space x stock but Elon folded in chai and that’s making me not want it now.
I tried to ask Grok a couple questions this morning. Each time it told me Grok was too busy, try later, or sign up for Super Grok. No.
I assume it’s CPRM’s fault.
“You do now have enough priority tokens. Click here to buy more.”
Testing out these AIs I sometimes wonder just how many 90s computers worth of compute I’m using up.
How many tokens for $25?
On Grok? $30 for a month is basically unlimited for the LLM. With image and video it is ‘rate’ based. and that ‘rate’ is dependent on time of day and the content of the content. NSFW uses more tokens than normal stuff. There are no hard numbers.
I am a cheap ass and use the free version of Grok. Yesterday it was down for a bit but I’m not doing anything mission critical so I have no problem trying again later.
Ask grok why Twitter banned me.
All of it is overhype. On the movie/TV side it will end up being no more than the CGI ‘revolution’. Hollywood didn’t implode because puppeteers and hand drawn animators lost their jobs. It imploded because nobody gives a shit about the product.
Shit, there are still puppeteers and hand-drawn animators who still have comfortable jobs.
Rocky from Project Hail Mary is the most adorable puppet since The Dark Crystal.
I think grand predictions are overhype. Some very smart people doubt it will ever become sentient.
There are however some things already in process:
1. Kids in college overusing it, so some places are going back to paper tests.
2. There are issues with it using/replicating copyrighted music, art, etc.
3. People are overusing it at work, and their critical thinking and creative skills are drying up.
4. AI may not directly replace workers, but the workforce could easily shrink in favor of fewer workers who are better at using AI.
All are legit issues we should be talking about.
AI is just another tool.
It will be used and misused.
Mumbo jumbo
A coalition of 21 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, DC, immedialy sued, arguing Kennedy had skipped the legally required procedures for such a drastic policy change. Last month, Kasubhai agreed that Kennedy had overstepped his authority and issued an order temporarily blocking the declaration. “The notion that ‘I will go forward and issue a declaration and see if we can get away with it’ is not a principle of governance that adheres to the overarching commitment to a democratic republic that requires the rule of law to be regarded and respected and honored as sacred,” the judge said at the time.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? More importantly, how do administrative decisions by doctors’ associations magically attain the force of law?
And why do the states have standing?
Because shut the fuck up, bigot.
I wonder if the good judge can be sued by some kid who gets transed against his or her will.
But Kasubhai’s first order wasn’t stopping the Trump administration. While the court case played out, HHS began going through the formal rule-making process, proposing a sweeping regulation that would strip federal Medicaid and Medicare funding from any hospital that provides trans youth health care, which I wrote about in depth last week. Such a regulation, if implemented, would force hospitals nationwide to cut off trans kids’ care or else face financial devastation.
Merciful heavens! Muh gravy train!
“trans kids”
No matter how many times you repeat the words, it doesn’t make it magically a thing that exists.
On YouTube and social media, you see a lot of “AI will replace all workers”, and “AI will become sentient and kill all humans.”
AI robots will come to your house and fix your toilet, and then kill you.
AI can do that for you. https://grok.com/imagine/post/d9872717-2b19-4dbb-8c16-c9dd7a72bec9?source=post-page&platform=web
What the fuck is “deed theft”?
It’s in the 200 block of Jefferson Avenue, and is where family members, friends, and activists stood outside all day on Tuesday in an effort to protect the home. For two years, Charrington has been in a dispute over its deed, even though her family has owned the four-story brownstone for more than 60 years.
“It’s just like, bananas,” said Charrington’s son, William McFadden, about his mother being in jail. She was declared in contempt of court by the judge in her dispute with developer 227 Group LLC.
More than a year and a half ago, 227 Group tried to change the locks on the home. The move was captured on surveillance video, which Charrington used, in part, to fight against the developer. She and her family remain in their home.
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Cynthia Rosa is a family friend and member of the organization People’s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft. She said that what they’re seeking for her friend is simple.
You won’t find out from reading that article. Whatever it is, it’s not fair.
It’s using legal shenanigans to take over property that doesn’t belond to you.
Trucking class let out early today. I’m on break til the 4th.
AI will take over any task for which it is the slightly cheaper option for the same level of quality.
My experience with AI art has taught me that it works best with telegraphic, caveman language. Using natural language confuses it. Less is more.
There’s a story about training an AI to distinguish wolves and dogs. It was doing pretty well except it mislabeled any dog in the snow as a wolf. In the training data, every picture with a wolf had snow in the background.
how machine learning works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-EtmaFJieY
I agree with the caveman language. This week I updated my personal web site, and I had Grok write most of it for me. This prompt got me good results to start, then I kept asking for small incremental changes. I’m having fun with it.
“Create an HTML home page with a separate SCSS file for styles. The page background should be white. Across the top, add a menu with a medium blue background and white lettering. The menu items should be “Home”, “Gallery”, “Now”, “About”. When the user mouses over each menu item, the background should turn darker blue and the lettering should turn light gray.”
My time to hang out at glibs is going to become severely restricted in the near future.
Transitioning to a new position at megacorp. Open seating allows for non-stop collaboration through the day. Isn’t it wonderful?
Oh ,that sounds horrible.
Oh no!
I’d go mad in an open plan office and there would be a bad end for everyone,.
Learn to fart and pick your nose.
I’m sure he already has those skills. Most people who were once children do.
I’m a hard core introvert.
Shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Does not compute.
The noise, proximity of people, and lack of privacy would all be psychological stressors for me in such an environment. Even having a cube in a high-traffic spot almost broke me at one point.
Sarcasm or wishful thinking. Take your pick.
I will be a basket case within a week.
When I return to the Jersey City office this summer (I haven’t been there in 3 years) I hope we still have fairly robust cubes. Well, two-walled cubes, so a little privacy at least. The office did downsize and move to another floor while I was away so who knows.
I do know the office in Cleveland where I was also thinking of moving has horrible “bench” seating. Like 8 or 10 developers a row, all lined up with little space. I hated visiting there.
Do you have JC accommodations lined up? I *may* know someone with something…
Nope, nothing. I have several months to find something.
It would be this neighborhood.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7494249,-74.0418776,3a,75y,24.85h,80.82t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIHCX9OezgPl4UCYgASJybQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D9.178826218642314%26panoid%3DIHCX9OezgPl4UCYgASJybQ%26yaw%3D24.853433331992676!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQyMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
The Heights, yeah I’m familiar with that area. I wonder if the light rail station can be reached from JC or only Hoboken (there’s a cliff there IIRC), that would be sweet. Easy commute.
Coverup!
When it comes to public health, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is, a Covid-19 vaccine was made available to Americans last year, and according to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it made a significant difference in helping people avoid serious illness.
The bad news is, the Trump administration’s political appointees at the CDC don’t want you to know about the good news. The Washington Post reported:
A report showing the efficacy of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to three people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
The report showed that the vaccine reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter.
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A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed to The New York Times that Bhattacharya intervened because of “concerns” about the research’s “methodology.”
Part of the problem with this is that there was no reason to question the methodology. The other part of the problem is that Bhattacharya doesn’t exactly have a track record on the issue that inspires confidence in his credibility. In October 2020, as the pandemic continued to claim the lives of thousands of Americans per day, the public was confronted with a highly controversial joint statement called the “Great Barrington Declaration,” which, among other things, argued that public health officials should pursue a radical version of “herd immunity” by allowing Covid to spread untrammeled through the population.
Keep the gaslights burning.
What about Mad
dcow disease? Any news about that?Bullshit.
If the clot shot worked and wasn’t just killing people, they’d want to credit it to the reckless “Operation Warp Speed” garbage from the first term.
The ghouls that staff the CDC would want to show the “anti-vaxxers” and would also be shouting it from the rooftops.
The study is probably full of methodological flaws trying to credit the clot shot for something it didn’t cause.
Rachel Maddow is the absolute worst. I’m sure they didn’t mention that this week, the CDC officially linked the deaths of kids to the vaccine.
Looks like she farmed out this particular piece of mendacious horseshit to one of her acolytes.
I have gotten some interesting errors when using AI.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/ygbsm.html
And some more interesting ones from Google Translate:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/05/more-weird-internet-glitches.html
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CWAC.
I wish the kid had kicked her in the face a few times, after she fell over her feet. Maybe that would teach her to keep her fucking hands to herself.
Were they trespassing on her property? Or is she really just a villain here?
I wish the kid had kicked her in the face a few times, after she fell over her feet.
That would be wrong. Now, if she had happened to fall into the jaws of an alligator…