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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 57m

And this is a problem because…

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 8d

I’m joining the we on Autism, on the side of Autism!

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 7d

To paraphrase a great Simpsons joke (imagine Phil Hartman gleefully saying this):

When you’re right 57.2 percent of the time, you’re wrong 42.8 percent of the time!

Johnnnnnnnn @johnnewhouse.bsky.social · 7d

lol, wrong almost half the time

Microsoft says its agent mode in excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not on too often, and I seem to come on to complain about AI.

Anyway, here’s a thread where I explicitly compare AI tools to past tools meant to revolutionize filmmaking, and why AI is destined to decay.

Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve seen AI compared to digital animation as a new filmmaking tool, but the presentation frankly says otherwise.

Let’s look at a computer tool that revolutionized animation. This is Pixar’s first film. From 1984. It’s barely a minute and a half with credits, but this is how they sold early CG.

the adventures of andré & wally b. (1984)

YouTube video by NickCartOOn

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 1d

The more I learn about it, the less impressed I am, and the more disinclined I am to entertain using it.

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 2d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever they defend new ABA as unlike the old stuff and actually caring about their autistic victims IMEANPATIENTS! patients, I’m like…

That’s impossible. The core ABA is built on is that autistic people are wrong and need to be fixed. It can never be benign.

Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 2d

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people.
Sigh.

Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 5d

In the recent (2020-24) ABA literature, 176 articles reported on functional analyses, of which a total of 20 (11.36%) included any assessment of their social validity?--& "no articles... assessed client preferences for functional analyses"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 5d

The anti-self dx crowd be like...

Lucile Bluth from Arrested Development obliviously asking,

"It's one autism assessment Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?"

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 5d

Autistic sensory sensitivities can be pretty finicky.

By the way, a change of less than three decibels is imperceivable to humans.

Geordi Drake meme. Two panels of Geordi from Star Trek Next Generation.

Geordi holds his hand in disagreement at the statement, "Music at 65 decibels."

Then, Geordi points in agreement at, "Music at 64 decibels."

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 3d

“So I asked ChatGPT…”

Nope, I don’t care what it is, I ain’t hearing it.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I hated all sports as a kid and fortunately, my parents supported me not playing.

Though people always tried to push it for the exercise.

Maybe that’s why as an adult, I pay no attention to the world of sports.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t buy the pitch that AI is another tool like animation, traditional computer graphics, or puppetry (more on that another day), because they aren’t doing that.

Because they can’t. It’s all a hype machine.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

We get disconnected static shots because that’s all it can do, and there likely was a human cleaning up those outputs.

Pixar meanwhile said, “You can create characters and tell stories. Look, we did that!”

And this was unheard of in 1984.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a sure sign AI is being pushed by tech bros first, because they don’t realize you need to demo this tech in action actually telling a story if you want to sell it as a storytelling tool.

And that’s why it will fail long term. Because it can’t. The seems fall apart fast.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

The video that introduced Tilly Norwood is not much longer than this Pixar short, but they don’t tell a story, they just talk about what Tilly can do. “Look, she can cry on Graham Norton!” She then cries without any tears.

It’s like Pixar saying, “Boom, instant shapes!” It’s not compelling.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

I have yet to see AI used to tell a story. It’s usually some disconnected gags, or generating a 30 second sitcom where the jokes are bizarre and the audio has all kinds of distracting artifacts.

The demos are just disconnected images.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

“Look how much more quickly you can render shapes and change the color on the fly. Try doing that with hand drawn animation!”

Pixar didn’t do that because they actually respect the hard work animators do, and said, “Look, this is a new tool to tell stories. See, we can tell a story!”

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

If Pixar took the approach AI companies are taking, they’d say, “Look how we can render geometric shapes! Here’s a sphere! Now here’s an ovoid! Now press some buttons and boom, a sphere and two ovoids on the screen at the same time! Now a cylinder! You can’t do that with human animators!”

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

André and Wally B is hardly Shakespeare, the plot is a guy is relaxing and a bee decides to harass him for some reason, and André needs to thwart and escape the bee. It’s not complex at all, but they advertised it as a storytelling tool by using the tool to tell a story. It’s whimsical and charming.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

The thing with all the AI demos is they say, “Look how realistically render things with a few prompts,” and you get some pretty static disconnected shots of someone walking through a hallway and then sitting in a cafe.

I have yet to see an AI demo that tells any kind of story.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

I won’t link the video where they reveal Tilly Norwood because frankly, it’s awful and really creepy. The characters brag about how Tilly literally has no agency.

But look at André and Wally B. They actually told a story. A simple one, but a story nonetheless.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve seen AI compared to digital animation as a new filmmaking tool, but the presentation frankly says otherwise.

Let’s look at a computer tool that revolutionized animation. This is Pixar’s first film. From 1984. It’s barely a minute and a half with credits, but this is how they sold early CG.

the adventures of andré & wally b. (1984)

YouTube video by NickCartOOn

youtu.be

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 5d

The anti-self dx crowd be like...

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · 5d

Autistic sensory sensitivities can be pretty finicky.

By the way, a change of less than three decibels is imperceivable to humans.

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Autistic Max @maxiemoosie.bsky.social · Nov 28

I made something.

A four panel graphic.

Panel 1: “What they say AI is” over a picture of R2-D2.

Panel 2: “What we hope AI will be” over a picture of Data from Star Trek.

Panel 3: “What we fear AI is” over a picture of The Terminator.

Panel 4: “What AI actually is” over a picture of Bender from Futurama smoking a cigar.

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