🎬 Film concept artist and illustrator. 🎞️ Alien: Earth, Matrix, Marvel, DC, Transformers, Woman King, Jupiter Ascending, 1923, Hunger Games.
Michigan, US
Joined January 2009
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Reid Southen retweeted
"But can't AI just be used to complete unimportant backgrounds or clean up animation?" No. Those are entry level positions that turn into long careers. Bg painters become art directors. Clean up artists become animation leads. Stop trying to cheat.
Reid Southen retweeted
Friendly reminder that if there is no such thing as a faithful AI upscale. AI will hallucinate details that do not reflect reality and it will put your integrity at risk to present an AI image as reality
Hello my name is Olivia Reingold and I used ChatGPT to brighten and sharpen an image of a woman in Valentino shoes and a Chanel bag.
After processing, it still shows these same things: a woman wearing Valentino shoes and a Chanel bag.
She is a real (and chic!) woman, really wearing those items. The observation holds.
Here’s the photo I took:
Reid Southen retweeted
Long time friend and genius concept artist friend had her design blatantly stolen.
Absolutely zero chance of legal recourse due to the location of the developer and legal costs.
Absolutely disgraceful, help get the word out. Alex deserves fair compensation and accreditation!
I did not give @ModernWarships permission to use my ekrano design, but I have to say she's looking great. Much more detailed than my sketches. Honestly if they'd just asked and sent me some $$$$ Id have had zero issue with them using it.
Its not to late to do the right thing guys
Reid Southen retweeted
“This was a rejection of Trump and the Republican Party, but also a rejection of big tech.”
@jason_koebler @404mediaco
404media.co/there-is-one-fig…
Reid Southen retweeted
BTW expect @Kalshi and @Polymarket to face incredible heat over the next two years, and serious regulation after 2028
They're inescapably tied to Trump 2, and also fundamentally, observably damaging to society - a fatal combo over the coming years of pro-human effort.
Reid Southen retweeted
I thought Id reached a settlement with @ModernWarships, signed the documents and then they stopped replying to my emails.
I feel like a fool.
I did not give @ModernWarships permission to use my ekrano design, but I have to say she's looking great. Much more detailed than my sketches. Honestly if they'd just asked and sent me some $$$$ Id have had zero issue with them using it.
Its not to late to do the right thing guys
Reid Southen retweeted
You thought it was a bad night for Republicans? Take a look at data centers.
Reid Southen retweeted
The thing that Silicon Valley flacks can't seem to grasp is that people aren't stupid. They know that the issues of economic inequality, data center and AI buildouts, and, say, tech billionaires trying to buy elections, are linked.
Also, 23%—1 in 4 Americans—is really high.
Reid Southen retweeted
Wow! Congrats to @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @GoogleDeepMind, @SpaceXSI, @nvidia, @Microsoft, and @Meta for making software people hate so much and shoving it down our throats so hard that over half of Americans considered it a major factor in how they voted this year.
How important was AI and data centers to your vote?
Crucial: 23%
Major factor / minor factor / non-factor: 77%
nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
Reid Southen retweeted
Austin Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator
Reid Southen retweeted
Michigan. It's time. It's up to us to show the country what's possible.
The world is watching.
Polls are open 7AM-8PM.
Reid Southen retweeted
If you are an artist who sells on Etsy, Etsy now claims the right to train AI models on your work, and for their ‘partners’ to do so too.
This should be illegal.
etsy.com/uk/legal/terms/
Reid Southen retweeted
“There is a difference between burying your head in the sand and periodically reminding ourselves that the world can be beautiful and good. We have somehow become convinced that turning away even for a second is a betrayal…” ⬇️
We are all being strangled, one news cycle at a time. slate.trib.al/289oNsR
