The Futurists AI is for Artists | Bay Raitt
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Feb 14, 2025 Bay Raitt, a versatile artist and technologist known for his work in comics, games, and VFX, shares his insights on AI's transformative role in the creative process. He argues that AI empowers artists, enhancing their abilities and fostering community-driven creation, as seen with Steam Workshop. Bay discusses the intricacies of training AI models, copyright issues, and the historical parallels between AI and synthesized music. He urges artists to embrace AI tools ethically, predicting a future where automation leads to greater access to creativity.
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Career Across Comics, Games, Films
- Bay Raitt described working on Spawn, early motion-capture TV, and building Gollum's face at Weta.
- He recounted inventing tools, sculpting, and shipping game and film projects across decades.
Building Community Creation Loops
- At Valve Bay helped build Source Filmmaker and Team Fortress 2 community systems.
- He described fostering a creator-audience loop via the Steam Workshop and user-generated hats.
Models Yield Mixtures Not Copies
- Foundation models store weights not copies, so outputs are mixtures rather than verbatim reproductions.
- Bay likened generation to rolling a marble across magnetic fields that pull toward common patterns.
