#editing

#editing

For a while now, we've been seeing companies that fired a bunch of their human workers in favor of artificial intelligence move to recoup some of that flesh-and-blood labor. Now, that push has resulted in a new line of gig work: slop fixer-uppers, who get paid to improve AI-generated art, writing, and code - by making it less, well, sloppy.

Dean DeBlois emphasized the importance of editing, stating, "Everything's sort of long-winded at first, and then you squeeze and you squeeze, and it eventually starts to paint targets on areas of the movie where you really feel the breaks being hit."

You're kind of spinning plates. You planted all these seeds in the earlier episodes and now you're paying them off.

"I feel like I'm numb to a lot of stuff at this point... If it doesn't stand out I don't see it."

Tyler has written for The Atlantic since 2023; before joining the magazine on staff, he was an associate professor at Bates College.