BGyss

I was just about to post that this entire story could have been completely transposed to almost every conversation I've had in Los Angeles over the past year and a half. Looks like you beat me to it!

I like reading posts on here because it's not Reddit.

I'm tired of hearing about people who are tired of talking about AI - is there a place on the Internet for me?

This debate should have started in earnest even before the Matrix sequels - digital crowds were used extensively throughout the 90s (Digital Domain's work on Strange Days and Titanic being the big examples) and the guilds have at least had some knowledge of these processes.

Believe it or not there was a system at Sony Pictures Imageworks that worked like this - no idea what it was doing under the hood though. Worked great in practice though - every possible production resource was a URL that started with spref:// iirc.