Reid Southen

@rahll.bsky.social

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🎬 Film concept artist and illustrator. 🎞️ Alien: Earth, Marvel, DC, Matrix, Alien, Transformers, The Woman King, Jupiter Ascending, The Hunger Games. https://www.reidsouthenart.com/

Basically the same as the main text, but actually serious about AI.
A caravan of sheep repeating pro-AI rhetoric as they head to their own demise. The stochastic parrot looms large.
Title slide with huge dork Reid Southen. Resistance and Optimism in the Face of AI.
Nestling my head in the hand of the 10 foot bronze RoboCop.
I'm sorry, I don't even know how to describe this fucking thing.
Screenshot of a tweet from Claude that says, "Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs."
Polymarket tweets that say, "JUST IN: It’s been revealed Anthropic has hired an “AI welfare” therapist to alleviate anxiety its models experience “related to, or affected by, deprecation and replacement” Models will now undergo “retirement interviews” to better understand their feelings before retirement." And: "BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety."
Tweet that says, "I’m sure this will make you sad too, but I’m also using Claude to second guess home contractors. The licensed electrician was lying to me (or just totally wrong) about the kind of wiring in my house and recommending an expensive and unnecessary job."
Really dumb tweet that says, "In my opinion, running an AI film competition before Seedance 2.0 is publicly released feels unfair. Participants who already have early access are clearly using Seedance 2.0, while those who don’t have access simply can’t compete on the same level. Like it or not, the difference in results is noticeable. I think it would make more sense to put the competition on hold and extend it until Seedance 2.0 is available to everyone. That way, all participants have equal opportunity. But maybe there are other perspectives, I’m not seeing, what do you think?"
Getting Your Book Published for Dummies.
Sunlight gleaming off the Salesforce tower in San Francisco in a star like pattern in the fog.
Tweet from AI and Adobe shill and all around embarrassing person that says, "Creators who use AI deserve respect and support."
Screenshot of tweet that says, "Wow. Captain America vs Batman. At this point I may just cancel my Netflix subscription and just generate my own movies and TV shows." The video is Captain America fighting Batman.
Tweet that says, "Friend of mine has a distribution deal for micro budget films, he makes like a dozen a year and we decided to partner on a fully AI movie to see if it makes sense for them, me taking the lead. We’ll see how it goes!"
Tweet from a loser that says, "I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan? I’m supposed to have ideas by next week. cmon guys what would you want to see? I like sci-fi but it feels to obvious for AI 🤷‍♂️"
Fight scene gif from Jason and the Argonauts where live action dudes with swords fight stop motion skeletons with swords, it's awesome.
Post on Twitter from Mike Chambers at Adobe: "Original plan was to discontinue Animate, and it would stop working after a certain date. What changed is we 1) are not discontinuing Animate, 2) it will continue to be available to install and use for new and existing users, and 3) if we do ever discontinue it, we will ensure you can still access your content."
A series of pictures of a boxer getting his toupee knocked off, compared to a couple of images from the film Friendship where Paul Rudd gets bopped and Tim Robinson puts soap in his mouth like a bad boy.
Photo of dystopian futures in the form of V for Vendetta, Channel Zero, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451.
Little fascist Greg Bovino asking garden gnomes for their papers in his new assignment.
Enormously long chip tube, gosh darn.
Comment on a YouTube video that says, "I see 'no AI' briefly flash on the screen, I pause, reduce the screen, hit like, then continue. Nice."
In Kyiv when murders began it was enough for protests to turn into a revolution.
You down with OCP?
Nvidia CEO expects AI to create more jobs for construction workers, electricians, plumbers, and many others
CW: Have you ever been in an eating contest? GG: Yeah, a long long time ago. I did a mashed-potato eating contest at a renaissance fair back in Georgia.
“He was tearing them up and just shoving them in as fast as he could,” said Ali Martinez, a witness to the event. “Like when you see people in a hot-dog eating contest.” According to the police estimate, around 57 of the 160 images on the wall were destroyed.
Photo of an iron lung in a museum, an enclosed metal cylinder meant to house a person to allow them to breathe.
Tweet from Nikita Bier that says: Ate a piece of fried chicken tonight. It somehow tore part of my throat going down. Now I can barely swallow (or speak). Doctor says: "You can get it checked out with an endoscopy. Earliest availability is in 4-6 weeks." This feels like a Kafka novel.
Movie poster for Primate, tagline "Something's wrong with Ben," showing a chimp in a red t-shirt sitting in a corner looking at the wall with a stuffed teddy bear laying nearby.