Notices by Matthew Merkovich :clippy: (mattmerk@mastodon.social)

#VFX #AI Just had someone sincerely suggest that the SynthEyes user manual could be re-written by Chat GPT. 🤣 I am still laughing!

@nixCraft I was. I had groupies and lots of cocaine, but then the world of photography went digital and I closed my darkroom.

I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”

So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”

Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.

So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.

@aral @RadicalGraffiti Ahem! In keeping with Yoda’s natural speech cadence and patterns, I submit this superior version.

@nixCraft Bupropion

@lashman https://mastodon.social/@MattMerk/111857603877159255

@Gargron Which is why I only refer to it as "large language models" or less often "machine learning," when it applies to VFX work in film and TV.

@user8e8f87c @aral Wrong. He does. Guess you didn’t make it to that last sentence before your knee jerked.

Reposting this image of all the alternatives to Adobe products, all of which I have eliminated from my company’s #VFX pipeline.

Premiere editors especially, you don’t need to keep paying Adobe’s protection racket subscription fee any longer!