Anyone who's visited this here blog of mine for any length of time going all the way back to the 2000 "oughts" is most likely familiar with my Censor Monkey characters. They know their basic routine: a creator makes content then these ferociously disgusting (or disgustingly ferocious) monkeys swoop in to whine and complain about EVERYTHING!!! Or, as one Dee Snyder described Tipper Gore back in the 80's, "they go looking for something to be outraged about and find it".
One of those monkeys in the pantheon is the Black Panther Monkey, pictured below:
The bug up his ass is that everything is SOOOOOOOOOO RACIST!!! No matter what the project is, he'll find "racism" to rattle his nervous system one way or another. The delightful irony (at least delightful to me) is that the real life versions of these Censor Monkeys consider THIS monkey to be "racist" which only solidifies just how much like this monkey they are. The only way out of that "censor loop" is for them to pull that bug out of their asses and not find it "racist". Problem solved.
Well, at any rate, it's now the future. Art, animation, and entertainment in general might be taken over by AI. I'm not entirely a big fan of it either, but at the same time it's not going away anytime soon. It's a new tool that we'll have to learn to use one way or another. With that in mind, below is my very first attempt at rendering my Black Panther Monkey in an AI fashion. That rendering is embedded below:
I imagine the dialogue to be:
Monkey: "THIS WHOLE PRODUCTION IS RACIST! IT RACIALLY PROFILES ALL THE MARGERINIZED RACES! APOLOGIZE AND MAKE A MILLION CHANGES OR I'M SHUTTING YOU DOWN!!!"
Director: "It's just a pudding commercial.
Monkey: "CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE OR MY AK-47 WILL DO THE TALKING!!!"
Anyway, yeah there's still alot of work to be done. Like I said at the top, this is my very first delve into this emerging AI technology. We'll all see where this leads together.
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