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Vince Gatton
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Actor, playwright, New Yorker, lefty
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(BTW and not for nothin’: don’t vote for evil, please and thank you.)

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I will never stop being angry about this. What the Republican ticket has done to these people is beyond cruel, and what makes it so much worse is they knew they were lying when they lit the torches and handed out the pitchforks. And they’re still doing it. It’s evil. #Springfield

Many Haitians Prospered in Springfield, Ohio. Then Came the Hate.
Many Haitians Prospered in Springfield, Ohio. Then Came the Hate.

A young family came to love the city where they rebuilt their lives and bought a home. Since a false rumor spread, they have scrapped outings, even to the park.

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Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut (repost to add alt text)

Text: Artists Against Generative Al.

Posting this on behalf of a member who would like to remain anonymous:

I'm an art director and supervisor for a large studio. The studio heads had the bright idea before I started to hire prompters. Several bros were brought onto the film project. I absolutely hated myself for not quitting on the spot but stuck with it because it's mercenary out there. Have a family to feed etc. I decided to use this time wisely. Treat them as I would any artist I had hired. First round of pictures of a sweeping Ariel forest landscape comes through and it's not bad. They submit a ton of work and one or two of the 40 are ok. Nearly on brief. So first round feedback goes through and I tell them about the perspective mistakes, colour changes I want, layers that any matte painting would be split into. Within a day I get 5 variants. Not changes to the ones I wanted but variations. Again. Benefit of the doubt I give them another round of
Text: the doubt I give them another round of feedback making it clear. Next day it's worse. I sit there and patiently paint over, even explaining the steps I would take as a painter. They don't do it, anomalies start appearing when I say I want to keep the exact image but with changes. They can't. They simply don't have the eye to see the basic mistakes so the Ai starts to over compensate. We get people starting to appear in the images. These are obviously holiday snaps.

"Remove the people"

"What would you like them changed to?" "... grass. I just don't want them there" They can't do it. The one that can actually use photoshop hasn't developed the eye to see his mistakes, ends up getting angry at me for not understanding he can't make specific changes. The girl whose background was a little photography has given me 40 progressively worse images with wilder mistakes every time. This is 4 days into the project.
Text: I'm both pissed about the waste, but elated seeing ai fall at the first hurdle. It's not even that the images are unusable, the people making them have no eye for what's wrong, no thicker skin for constructive criticism and feedback, no basic artistic training in perspective and functionality in what they're making.

Yes the hype is going to pump more money into this. They won't go anywhere for a while. But this has been such a glowing perfect moment of watching the fundamental part fail in the face of the most simple tasks. All were fired and the company no longer accepts Ai prompters as applicants. Your training as an artist will always be the most important part of this process and it is invaluable. I hope this post gives you a boost in a dark time.

(A pic of text reads 'this machine kills Al' above an arrow pointing to a pencil)
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True. I recently learned of “boot”, but that seems to be a more elite/ivy league/prep school term than people of my background would use.

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Does anyone still say “hork”? (Did anyone but me ever say “hork”?)

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Look I made a hat…

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I saw the same pair, and yes they were! Years later I played Keene Curtis’s younger self in a reading, and got to tell him what a strong impression he’d made on me at 15. He was as lovely in life as he was onstage.

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Somebody check on Rod Dreher, he’s probably having a rough one.

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Vince Gatton
@vincegatton.bsky.social
Actor, playwright, New Yorker, lefty
48 followers130 following47 posts