'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"

this game is AI slop. I don't care if they replaced everything, they still used it, still forced their employees to clean it up, and if someone steals once you can't really trust them not to again studios need to understand that AI usage is toxic and our behavior is the only power we have

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

We lost Jonathan Joss exactly One Year ago today. A neighbor burned his house, killed his dogs and shot him in the street for being Gay. Never forget Jonathan Joss. #KingOfTheHill #JohnRedcorn

Introducing "Dinner For Two", a comic made by me, Sena Bryer! I want to improve my art, so I thought what better way than to produce a full chapter of a webcomic? (and in the process draw lesbian vampire stuff 🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️) If this is something y'all would like to see more of let me know! [1/11]

Saw this on FB. If you’ve ever enjoyed Aqua Teen, please help if you can. Someone who’s such an integral part of one of Adult Swim’s most beloved shows deserves much better than this.

i know someone is lost in the AI sauce when they call board work and general planning for film "just the intermediate stage". no, thats the essential stage. Fuck that up and the whole thing crumbles like a house of cards. It's the LAST place you want some hack machine offering its opinions.

That bit at the end of The Aviator where DiCaprio is repeating “the way of the future” endlessly until it loses all meaning and he just looks sad

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27 episodes into Gundam Wing and I only just clocked Heero = zero Une = one Duo = two Trowa/Treize = three Quatre = four Wufei = five I’m sure there’s more

Last up, something a lot of you have wanted, w/ a bit of an upgrade... Kamen Rider: Skyrider! Call it Skyrider, Kamen Rider (New), or just Kamen Rider, the 1st time the Rider returned to TV after the original run ended is coming! & for the first time in HD on disc, anywhere.

She guards the stairs ever vigilant

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Which kamen rider is this

Kuuga scene studies

She guards the stairs ever vigilant

“All major studios are using AI in some capacity” Yeah and do you think the industry is doing particularly *well*, do you think that’s an advertisement

Oh, he's not sorry, he's just biding his time until it's the new normal. Cool, excellent. Just because there's a lot of very unethical production companies stealing from their employees doesn't make it right either. "I've seen exploitation and decided to join in" isn't a winning statement.

To new voice actors or those who are curious about trying it, what are your biggest questions or concerns? I’m putting together a talk, but will also try to directly respond to as many questions as I can! Thanks for your input~

Fascinating how quickly I’ve seen scabs adopt a victim mentality “Everyone is ganging up on me for just taking a job to feed my family” I’ve yet to see any threat made to you that compares to the threat your behavior represents to your industry.

When they announced the project everyone was like "let him speak" and he said the mathematically worst words. Then he apologized and people were like "let him move on" and he doubled back I really don't care if he's sorry or just sorry he's getting grief but he's no friend of animation workers

ALERT! ALERT! After several jumps up and down I was finally able to get my copay to 7000. More than what I originally paid. I have already paid 3000 thanks to what people have sent, but now I am in the last stretch and need to pay $4000 before Tuesday. I don't expect everyone to be able to help me-

These genAI and LLM projects and campaigns aren't about art. They're about selling something to consumers. Consumers who do NOT want the product from companies who NEED to sell it because they made a bad investment and they're fucking panicking.

And shit like this? Shit like this proves that you don't know the difference either. People getting mad about "AI" is about a VERY SPECIFIC ISSUE. And it's that major corporations, like Amazon who you sold your soul to, are working right now to blur the line between AI the tool and AI the product.

People have talked the argument "everyone uses it" into the ground because yeah. No, not "everyone" uses it. The thing is, though, the general public doesn't know the difference between LLM and genAI and proprietary tools that many companies developed and implemented into their workflow years ago.

I've worked at the 'big' studios. While I'm on the writing and showrunning side, none of my projects have used AI in their process. I feel confident about my designers, directors, and story artists doing the same. These folks are convincing themselves 'everyone is doing it'.

Good morning Mozzarella

This. I understand the need for compassion and understanding, and there are times when it’s appropriate. But I’ve been guilty of showing grace to people who were happily taking advantage of me, in the hopes that just believing in their goodness would be enough. Some people use that kindness.

This is why, 4 years into AI bullshit, I'm not willing to believe people tripped and fell onto their keyboard and used it by accident. This is a deliberate choice at this point, it's not "oooo what a fun toy" we are WAY past that.

Again this guy just seems to say whatever benefits him in the moment

"whatever, everyone already uses it anyway so it's fine" is just not really the message a sorry person promotes. I'm frustrated by how everyone just gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not feeling very forgiving when this is the messaging. I don't think I'm being unreasonable either

ケツガーターを描きたかっただけなのにマジになってしまった絵（背景・ライティング参考あり）

Starting Kamen Rider Skyrider (or just Kamen Rider NEW) and it’s a show I’ve heard nothing but bad things about, let’s go.

David has been kind enough to come on our show multiple times to speak about his deep love and passion for working on anime in both performance and production roles. It's deeply disturbing to hear he, and likely many others, have been treated this way.

Finished Kamen Rider Stronger Some 10/10 Kamen Rider right there, strong - guffaw - from start to finish. More Tackle woulda been nice but yeah, one of the best.

he is kinda huge

My personal all time "why would you of all people use AI" example will always be the lead actor from Deus Ex mocking people for holding the line during a strike by explaining he put the deal on the table into ChatGPT

AI Data centers are polluting Black and Brown neighborhoods, killing the environment, helping promote misinfo and graphic hate speech, deteriorating the entertainment industry AND destroying the economy, all simultaneously. We don’t need a White liberal solution, we need those centers gone. Period.

Here's voice actor David Wald sharing how at the height of lockdown during a pandemic, Crunchyroll banned remote recording in an effort to union bust and also made it nearly impossible for him to work due to refusing to offer medical accommodations in studio.

My gender spectrum can basically be summed up by the Conker's Bad Fur Day cover art.

Netflix Animation Studios production workers have ratified their first union contract with The Animation Guild. The deal includes wage minimums, dismissal pay, workplace protections, and higher pay for Production Assistants.

Bizarrely, Jorge's comparison here actually describes the original plot of the movie Cool World - wherein the artist has sex and the cartoon he's fucked immediately gives birth to a horrifying human/animation hybrid that spends the movie hunting him down because he's an absent father.

Even when your peers are deriding you and scoffing that your efforts are in vain Even when the industry insists your actions mean nothing and you will be steamrolled Even when people you thought were friends are taking the jobs you're leaving behind The right thing is still the right thing.

And you might ask, “Why? Why drop out of a project if no one will know you did? If no one will see your solidarity?” The answer is plain: “Because it’s the right thing to do.” Whether you get brownie points or not shouldn’t matter.

Genuinely this. Folks might be surprised how common it actually is for your peers with backbones to remove themselves from projects (even REAL BIG ONES) once learning of genuine harm coming from them. It’s just not all of choose to (or sometimes are even allowed to,) share our leaving publicly.