Did you guys see the Wingfeather Saga YouTube channel's newest post? They were promoting Angel studios new movie sketch with a app that the sketch team had made. The Wingfeather team drew some sketches of creatures (toothy cow, thwap, squeeblin) and put it through the app to make them the same style as the movie. The only problem was the app uses AI. Now a lot of people are disapointed with the Wingfeather team because apparently they were promoting AI, when they were simply promoting the new movie. Almost all of the comments were about being disapointed in the crew and some even wanted to stop supporting WFS. This really rubbed me in the wrong way and its crazy how one simple promotion can hurt a company.
So I have a few questions, 1. do you think AI is ok sometimes 2. would one questionable thing make you completely make you leave something? 3. did you like that they used the app?
I have really strong feelings on AI. I think it could be used for certain things, but it needs to stay out of the art industry. Artists are having to fight AI all the time. I go into stores like Hobby Lobby and HALF of the framed artwork is AI! Amazon is now struggling with AI writing books on it's own and publishing them on the site. And the music industry is seriously suffering from AI making songs and spitting them out all over music apps without any indication that it's AI. It can be used for certain things, probably. But I think we need to put a halt on it and really think about how to SAFELY use it.
I don't think Wingfeather using the app is something that would make me stop watching the show. I may be more careful, but I wouldn't stop watching it all-together.
I did not. One of the reasons is: from what I've seen of the "Sketch" movie, it looks a bit creepy. I also have some hesitations about Angel Studios in general because of some stuff that they've done. But the biggest thing is that I don't think it's a great idea for an animation studio to promote AI in any way. If you open up the door to using it - even for something so small - who's to say it won't be used again, and in bigger ways?