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Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by blks on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:12PM (#46804351)
So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

Claims of productive boosts must always be inspected very carefully, as they are often perceived, and reality may be the opposite (eg spending more time wrestling the tools), or creating unmaintainable debt, or making someone else spend extra time to review the PR and make 50 comments.

Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by echelon on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:15PM (#46804380)
> So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

There's no chatbot. You can use image-to-image, ControlNets, LoRAs, IPAdapters, inpainting, outpainting, workflows, and a lot of other techniques and tools to mold images as if they were clay.

I use a lot of 3D blocking with autoregressive editing models to essentially control for scene composition, pose, blocking, camera focal length, etc.

Here's a really old example of what that looks like (the models are a lot better at this now) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVgNNJP6Vc

Re:Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested... by heliumtera on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:28PM (#46805819)
there is probably more tools to achieve this level of productivity than real humans interested in consuming this goyslop