Eric Ravenscraft
@lordravenscraft
Clearly fake name. Freelance writer. Video essayist on YouTube. Bylines in Lifehacker, PCMag, WIRED, NYT. Will shitpost for cash. Patreon:
one thing i think we need to talk about when we see high-profile people like this endorse AI is that there is a coordinated, well-funded campaign to convince them it's good, and lies like this are the tells that it has worked AI is not even a little bit better than humans at detecting AI
i realized I forgot to mention it on here, but i put a fundraiser on my latest video in honor of Daveigh Chase, for the Downtown Women's Center in LA so far, folks have already donated $266 of our $2k goal, and I'm so grateful to the folks who have already donated so far 💙
also Serkis is making the classic mistake here of treating "AI" like it means "computer" MASSIVE was a very different kind of software than generative AI. but he's equating them because the term "AI" doesn't actually mean anything by itself
this "it's fine for reference/concept art" thing needs to die setting aside that, yes, actually, it is still exploitative when you do that, reference and concept art is where the idea part of the process happens, and it's the part gAI is LEAST suited for
dude's right and this goes way beyond just AI disdain and disrespect for audiences is proven wrong time and time again. if you believe people are dumb, have short attention spans, and will gobble up any old garbage, you'll fail and never understand why
yes. fun fact: in order to create the animated tesseract in the video, I had to convert 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 math into 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 nodes. which, thankfully, there were resources to help me with for a long time i suspected S. Darko ripped the wiki GIF, but now i'm thinking they did the 2009-equivalent of this process
i will not say i spend the most amount of effort on my thumbnails but i would feel comfortable wagering i spend the most 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 effort on them
okay wait this actually brings up a weird thing i could never figure out but ...i thought he WAS just a regular vandal?? like the book references powers to conjure water or fire, but even in the DC, he just...takes an ax to a pipe in the school. and he douses the dude's house in gasoline
oh yeah, this is going on his tombstone and he knows it and it eats him up even more than the fact that his kids hate him or that no one thinks he's funny
sorry but this is so fuckin funny set aside that Platner is not a democratic socialist...the argument here is that lots of people are voting for candidates with these policies, but 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 not tolerating candidates with abusive histories? damn, yeah, no, that's just humiliating, for sure for sure
there are different messages to FB groups, but this one was a 1:1 conversation with a friend. The full screenshot context can be found at the Politico article on the topic www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
brief teaser for the next video or new existential horror just dropped, you decide
this is the New York Times stopping just short of arguing that if Democrats want to hold political power, they must tolerate sexual assault this, completely ignoring the periods of time over the last two decades where Democrats have also held all three branches of government
quick reminder: the Platner campaign claimed his accuser was an out-of-state coached political operative, brought in to deliberately derail his campaign "he made mistakes in the past" is not an option here. this is active and ongoing anyone employing this narrative is, by necessity, a liar
how many of these employees were laid off? how many people have had their lives ruined for the crime of being right too early, and having no power to do anything about it?
they absolutely did not leave off the answer to that last question
is2fg no joke i thought this was a shopped Digimon control spire screen grab
QTP with a game that made you a gamer in your childhood still waiting to see the Ordos in a movie
this AI experiment on YouTube is now offering "Ask YouTube" search suggestions and i think YouTube might fundamentally misunderstand how people use YouTube
okay i admit this one was a bit challenging, but i still think it works bsky.app/profile/bill...
in both sex scenes and race cars launching beehives at other race cars, the argument in favor is the same
every instance of sex scene discourse can be improved by substituting "sex scenes" for "that scene in Speed Racer when a guy launched a beehive at another car" to wit
i dunno man if the hot shot director of my newest hit movie was out here using Blender and calling AI dogshit, i know which tool i'd be putting my time and money into