"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Meh,
its your average perfectly crafted clickbait article which withholds the not so juicy details long enough that you read through the article and at the last paragraphs it clarifies the headline is kinda bullshit. Someone said something in an interview to some other publication.
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Moreover, it’s the same alarmist narratives being pushed by AI boosters, who see it as a cause of celebration rather than concern.
Yeah. Thanks for nothing.
My son, who is a very knowledgeable cinephile, was just telling me yesterday, that he suspects that basic plots in productions like TV detective dramas, are being puked out by AI, then punched up by humans in the writing room, and then fed back through AI for polishing.
That's why so many shows have such similar plots and structures.
Nah, there was a Book a few years back with a general formula to make successfull movies. It was in fact so successfull that everyone uses this formula now and Movies have become dull because everything is the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Cat!:_The_Last_Book_on_Screenwriting_You%27ll_Ever_Need
Yeah, the Save The Cat nonsense has almost ruined movies. I recognize it every time we get to the "All Hope Is Lost" beat, about 90% of the way through. Then the hero figures out some implausible escape, the bad guys get sorted out, and there's a happy ending. Every time.
We've been dealing with that for a while, but AI is taking a bad situation and only making it even blander. And it's not just AI, it's Netflix's entire way of doing business.
The other thing that my son points out is how often a Netflix series could have been a really good, tight 2 hour movie, but Netflix wants engagement, so they demand that the good movie be stretched into numerous chapters with cliffhangers. So we get subjected to all sorts of dumb twists and turns that pop up out of nowhere, and really don't have anything to do with the real plot.
There is a vast difference between using AI to guide a process and making it the process. The problem has always been those who claim the later.
The reality is things are new type of search engine. The search engines we have relied on for the past 25 years have become trash so people are using these chargers in ways that are search adjacent.
Only fools take the output for either approach as a final product and the world isn't running low on fools.
Yeah I was thinking how useful Google circa 2010 was. Back then, it felt like an LLM-level productivity boost. Then it enshittified to the point that it can barely be used for anything at all.
Search engines, except they don't say where they got the results and fundamentally inefficient
Wait until people find out how many films aren't true at all. Loads of them are totally made up. They spend so much money faking things that never happened. It's crazy.
I'm not suicidal.
Hollywood is going to love bringing dead actors back to life. Like Peter Cushing.
That is disconcerting indeed. BTW, your name checks out. XD
I live in Los Angeles and I still see live movie filming happening around the city. They will close off entire city blocks and roadways for hours to conduct filming. So rest assured y'all, reality is still happening sometimes.
I don't think replacing everything is the point, at least not right now.
I genuinely think everyone is lying about it at this point. Including quite a lot of folks on lemmy.
I have so many ethical problems with the way AI is being handled. I don't think it's bad to exist as a tool but the way it is being used and propped up is pouring gas on an already unstable planet. Because of this I refuse to use AI everywhere I can even for things I don't consider to be unethical.
There are places I know it slips by but I don't really have an alternative option, there are places I suspect but I'm not sure, but if it is in a tool I use often I work towards finding a replacement. It's getting harder though with how invasive it is with getting shoved into everything under the sun and then some.
wasnt DISNEY's snow white obvious.