So I was looking into the history of battery naming conventions. this is imo the absolute best thing about the internet, quickly finding information on very niche topics. I was really excited that somebody actually made a video about the exact weird question I had just asked myself and couldn’t find out enough about on wikipedia! I was however quickly disappointed to realize that it’s basically just shitty AI slop designed to play the youtube algorithm and generate watch time. at 1:24 the way the sentence is phrased is not only a dead giveaway, it’s also detrimental to the understandability of the content, not that there is really any meaningful information being conveyed in this video beyond the immediately obvious. then at 3:01 the battery shown is so totally not an A battery!! that’s an ignition dry cell, the precursor to the LR40, the thing is 15 cm tall and can hold 40 fucking amp-hours! just look at those huge fucking screw contacts on the top!!! that’s where I realized what was going on. these guys are spreading worthless, misleading falsehoods, poisoning the well of information we call the internet, and at the very least they’re parasites, leaching away our time on this earth just so they can make a couple of pennies worth of profit. it breaks my heart 💔
I’m a video producer. AI is already baked into all my tools and has made itself indispensable (from an ROI perspective). Watching the industry change from the 90’s has been a trip. I feel herded into increasingly toxic digital gardens. That’s not even an AI-specific thing. I have so much experience with Adobe products, and every employer has them. But they don’t support Linux at all, and I can’t justify running Windows or Mac at home anymore. So I just… don’t have access to my tools outside of work.
I mean, “AI” is immensely useful for video and image processing. It was well before anyone knew what an LLM was, and it goes far beyond just generating a clip from a text prompt.
And… As much as it pains me to admit it, Adobe is taking a better path, licensing training data and trying to integrate it into focused niches in workflows instead of lazy “type in box to get clip” kind of setups like Google offers.
But that does nothing to excuse the wave of slop eating the internet. The tech CEOs in charge have the power to curb this, for their own selfish benefit, and are not doing it.
Also, I will add that you can do pretty serious video processing on Linux with Vapoursynth and some Python/Pytorch.
It’s not GUI video editing, but in its niche, it can be way more powerful than Adobe.
I think I could get by with the video editing options available. I’ve already moved from Avid to FCP to Premiere, and editors are pretty comparable. But the thought of learning to replace After Effects, I just don’t know if I have it left in me. Might be time to change professions. I appreciate the recommendation, though, and agree that at least Adobe trained Firefly with artist IP somewhat in mind. It just feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop working with any of these companies.
You absolutely are.
There are “professional” way out though. For instance, now companies can self host diffusion models though SGLang, to service image/video editing to a whole bunch of staff in-house. And then you aren’t locked into any vendor for the “AI” serving, you can finetune them for your own workflows, and so on.
Good luck convincing your employer to take that route, though…