“No one wants to work anymore!”

They dropped an Acme-brand anvil on Zaslav’s head, to be clear.

The real risk would be the movie then taking off and making a couple hundred million or something, which’d make Zaslav et al. look really stupid.

It’s not abundantly clear how this move benefits WBD at all other than as a bit of face-saving

You were totally fine with the most famous person (easiest target) involved being slapped with criminal charges (later dropped because the case against him was pathetically weak) even though it was obvious to everyone that he did nothing wrong?

I can’t fairly call it unreadable because all those words in that does make sense, in theory. But it still doesn’t seem natural or human generated. I wonder if anyone has coined a term for the writing equivalent of the uncanny valley?

It’ll rebrand as GPT/O Media

Well, Jez just went “Boom” so maybe we’ll get bots roughly six months before the election and then G/O Media will just vanish.

It’s like they saw the reaction to the AVC Chatbot articles and thought the problem was that they were being too honest.

If they’re gonna halfass an article with AI, they could at least halfass a review with AI.

It’s in lieu of a Jim Spanfeller staff.

Not sure why it would be ‘prickly’, most sane people felt sorry him after what happened. Not on the scale of Hutchins and her family, but still. The litigious persecution, and the prospect that they might try and nail him *again* just made everyone feel more sorry for the guy.

I seem to recall him talking to a gaggle of reporters shortly after the shooting. I remember thinking his lawyer probably would be mad at him.

Just realized as I noticed the writer as AV Club Staff. Interesting...

I love how ChatAVC decided just to stop writing this article midstream. Like “Yeah, I’m going back to plotting humanity’s demise, I can’t be bothered with this show anymore.”

I don’t think it stopped; I’m not stupid. I think people who’ve been mistreated are finding it easier to come forward.

It was actual footage he’d shot, though, not a recreation of him.

I’m not sure what alternative clause you want instead.

This always feels like such a basic bitch take, since we’re talking about a massive budget AAA Marvel game, but I loved the first game so damn much. Hughes nails the joy and beauty of simply moving about the world, and while the story isn’t anything extraordinary, it nails the characters so well — the scene of Peter…

But, do they explain why Kraven needs an army to hunt Spider-man so he can... hunt Spider-man?