1y ago

Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great AI is

www.businessinsider.com

Audiences attending the SXSW premiere of "The Fall Guy," starring Ryan Gosling, were not happy about having to watch a sizzle reel before the movie that touted the promises of AI.

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1y ago

Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great AI is

www.businessinsider.com /sxsw-crowd-boos-ai-video-2024-3

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AI has all the popularity of the spoiled vaping neighbor kid and his new drone.
- Nuff said
  
  and tech workers have mixed feelings about it, because it's made their job 10x easier whilst making them 10x more expendable
- Spot on
  
  Deadass fam, no cap.
- Sadly it's still ragingly popular in the tech start up / tech bro / LinkedIn cringe world.
  My job is, among other things, ML related...I try to warn them off of this rhetoric all the time but they can't stop being distracted by the shiny jingling keys.
  
  I also work in ML, and it's really hard to convince people that generative AI is just a gimmick and does not have the same value as other kinds of models like classification models. Computers should do utilitarian things, not social things.
  Using AI to automate simple tasks is the future. Using AI to automate complex human tasks that involve socialization should not be the future.
  Even some non-generative graphics AI like GroundingDINO and SAM have excellent uses for graphic artists and photographers that don't betray the creative process or remove the human from the process of creation.
  But once you get the AI to try to be original, or perform a social task, you're headed the wrong direction. This is all short term hype. In the long term, either the bubble pops, or we find ourselves locked in a prison with our monsterous creation.
- It sucks that anything capitalism touches turn to shit.
  It is a great tool when used properly. But everyone and their mother has an AI startup with prompt engineers, whatever the fuck that means.
  It can be so much more than a fucking tech fad, but it is destined to be milked and pushed down our throats to make rich people richer until this cow dies and a new one come in the repeat the cycle.
  I am mad that our shot at AI will only be a tool to fuck us over.
  
  @Croquette @DestroyerOfWorlds It’s all open source though and anyone can use it
Carter's urge to "be an AI thinker" didn't go over well. "You know your business is going to be disrupted. You need to stop resisting and start learning," she said, her words drowned out by the crowd.
Stop resisting!!
- "Disrupted". Grooooaaannn
  
  You don't like unemployment or being paid less so the billionaires can take more? Why are you so anti-progress?
Do you guys not have prompts?!
- I get this reference.
- Do you not have nets, exile?!
The fuck is a "sizzle reel". I mean, I get what it probably is from context, but who comes up with this shit
- I am generally confused as to how you've never heard the term before and are just assuming it's a new phrase.
  
  Da fug is a sizzle reel. Sounds like a term 1st graders came up with...
  
  When and in which context would I have heard this?
- @JRepin@lemmy.ml
  Elitists who make money from nothing or off the backs of others also invent catchy phrases to glorify and sanitize their worthless activities.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showreel
  I've heard of it before and I don't work in advertising or video production. Why is everyone focusing on this term like these guys invented it?
  
  Super common in my industry, which is corporate events, not show biz
- Yeah, reading that phrase already has me a bit pissed off. Gonna cooldown before watching the conference itself 😂
- Move over bacon. Now there’s something meatier!
  
  I'm hungry now.
- You read my mind 👏
- Its kinda like when they bring out fajitas at a restaurant on one of those fake ass skillets that was just resting under a broiler and they add water or soy sauce + oil to make it sizzle, to sell it to others.
  
  Now that's an explanation I can get behind. Also, I now want fajitas.
- I’ve heard it before, i thought the context was for a specific product, or like a video resume for visual artists… not a video to be shown to the public at a conference
More of a fart reel than a sizzle reel.
The basic message was "stop resisting" because AI is "inevitable." I think it's telling that this is the message the industry is going with.
I was saying Boo-urns.
Reminds me of the Artifect reveal.
- I was there in person. From hype to disappointment so fast.
  
  I'm almost jealous. Real Valve low-point with them tying it into their marketplace crap also. We didn't need another 'CS:GO Lotto' fiasco.
AI is a tool that makes us X% more productive (X is still debatable and bound to change)
But instead of making our job X% easier or let us earn X% more, work X% less, corporations are hellbent to fire X% of the workforce because that makes the most money.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Video emerged on social media of the audience loudly booing a conference sizzle reel that featured several industry leaders speaking positively about AI.
The reel featured several speakers and panelists from previous events at the conference, including Peter Deng, vice president of consumer product at ChatGPT-creator OpenAI, and Sandy Carter, COO of Unstoppable Domains, among others.
She added that the audience showed "a high level of engagement and interest," and had voiced their "enthusiasm and support for positive developments" in the field of AI.
Variety noted that much of the audience was likely made up of professionals in the film industry, including actors and screenwriters who just months ago were on strike — and for whom AI was a major concern.
In resolving the strikes, the studios made several concessions on AI, agreeing to prohibit it from being used to rewrite original material for scripts, and requiring the consent of actors before reproducing their likenesses digitally.
Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, has a global deal to allow OpenAI to train its models on its media brands' reporting.
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