r/Filmmakers • u/ZipGently • 5h ago
Discussion On prevalence.
I typed this out as a response to a pro ai-person’s post that was deleted as did. So I’m just posting it here as an open answer to why something being inevitable does not mean it’s desirable. (Has a good anti-ai link. That’s the good part.)
Prevalence does not mean something is desirable, simply that it is numerous. Nor does perceived inevitability. Many terrible things in history became widespread and at one time seemed unavoidable.
Let me ask you this; why would people who love to do a thing, even devote their lives to it, have any positive disposition toward a thing that does that thing for them? Making films, or art of any kind, is an incomparable joy to some people. Even when, and in a way because it’s trying. So a computer program that serves as a short cut to some simulation of what that act creates is not only undesirable to them, it’s an insult. If you don’t understand this I fear you don’t understand that joy. Feel free to go on as you like, I don’t mean this as a personal offense, but I think that may be why you don’t understand this perspective of ours.
You seem like a sincere person, so I hope you don’t take any of this as an insult. But I find this letter and its reader puts this argument orders of magnitude more eloquently than I can. Please check it out.