Originally there was ComfyUI, comfortable with its niche and waaaaay ahead of its time. Now? Everyone's got a canvas. October 2024 saw an absolute deluge of node-based workflow tools hit the AI video scene. Flora, Freepik Spaces, Krea Nodes, ImagineArt Workflows, Runway Workflows – suddenly everyone had their own infinite canvas with nodes and pipelines. Erik Knobl   wrote a brilliant piece asking whether this new workflow is actually better. His answer? Yes, emphatically yes

Why this rebel is rebelling against AI slop–and how Red Rising is the perfect proving ground I’ve been in the trenches of media production for 15+ years, and since 2018, when Synthesia first whispered synthetic smiles and Adobe Neural Filters turned “impossible” into “one-click,” the way we work and tackle creative challenges has changed at an ever-accelerated pace. Yet every year the same sludge floods the feeds: AI-generated “content” that’s fast, cheap, and utterly soulles