It was very interesting to see how Corridor Crew used AI to actually solve a work flow issue they had with green screens—they
still had a lot of work to clean up composited footage.
They then worked to train an AI to do that tedious work for them.
I don't find an issue what-so-ever with how they did it—they generated their own training data
(so they avoided the whole scale “stealing” of copyright materal)
on their own equipment
(so conceivably they avoided any environmental impact not only by avoiding a small town's worth of electricity but also by narrowly restricting the training data to what they absolutely needed)
and once it worked,
they are releasing the tool for use by anyone
(so avoiding the whole rent-seeking issues by the major AI players).
I feel like this is how you do AI correctly,
by finding a problem that is tediously repetative and getting the computer to do that work.
Now my question is—what problem is the use of AI-assisted programming actually solving?
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