You wrote a very interesting post - don't praise him for his use of AI. But here's the problem - you are very right - AI is now the same Blender for 3D animators. It used to be that those who made animations in Blender were not very well liked (I didn't catch those times myself, but I've been told about it). Even now, if you go to another famous site and watch videos made through Blender - there will be a lot of amateur and not particularly high-quality animations. And, in fact, this applies not only to Blender - MMD, Koikatsu, even DAZ - in each set of work in this software you can find a lot of bad examples. And up to a certain point, each of these software didn't have some “Wow” animators/model creators. Even now you can find works where, conventionally, a penis goes through the stomach in a complex pose, clothes go through arms and legs, unnatural movements and so on. But what's different is that there are people who have spent a huge amount of time developing themselves in this craft. And I will never tire of citing NyL as an example - it's the devil in the flesh. How good his animations are in Blender can only be admired (and envied by some). It's not about taste, it's about quality.
It's the same with Uber - a lot of people blame AI for the problems, but that's not entirely true. The fact that Chantelle had 3 anuses is not so much AI's problem as Uber's. He could have gone into photoshop (and now there's even a plugin that embeds photoshop into the Automatic environment) and just plastered two extra anuses in 5-10 seconds with the simplest stamp tool, but he didn't. Yes, the fact that the neural network initially generated 3 anuses is not the norm either, but that's not Uber's problem, it's the problem of those who created that neural network. And as BlaBlaCat already wrote - neural networks are now at a level that could only be dreamed of last spring (not to mention when 0.95.7 was released). Sorry for the huge amount of information, I just like that finally people are starting to realize that AI is not an evil entity that attacked Uber and made him generate art in it, but the same tool as Blender, Koikatsu, Photoshop, etc. and all mistakes are the mistakes of the person who used this software and under-tracked. I agree about the deadlines - Uber said the deadlines would be shorter, but they haven't changed or even increased. This is not the norm and it should not be like this. I also agree about the faces - Uber's problem even at the moment is that he uses different checkpoints, which makes it look like the same character, but the sub-styles are different. I'll attach a hastily made picture. You can especially see it in the MC and Becca comparisons.
