I agree, AI doppelgangers may be tasteless but if an actor knowingly licenses his likeness to a studio to do that, at least they’re entering into an agreement and the actor is getting compensated.

The AI that only exists because it scraped a bunch of free work from people who had no expectation that was going to happen…

I like that Star Trek seems to be leaning into the idea that “Utopia” is something you continually strive for, not a strictly defined final destination and what really qualifies you as Utopian is pursuing that ideal. It acknowledges that the specifics of Roddenberry’s Utopian vision were off while staying loyal to the…

Satine represented the democratic ideal that lost sight of the fact that those ideals exist to serve people. She was so beholden to the ideal that she ignored the corruption that happened right under her nose. She was Star Wars’ Chamberlain, a tragic figure whose single-minded commitment to peace ultimately subjected…

I remember when reading it was made of carbon fiber I was confused. I don’t know anything about submersible design but I assume material weight doesn’t matter much because of buoyancy and isn’t the main reason to use carbon fiber strength-to-weight ratio? If so, what was the purpose of making it out of carbon fiber?…

I think you draw the line by not differentiating based on who they are. You act like human life is worth saving, you expend the resources you reasonably have available while the odds are good they can be recovered, and hope for the best. It shouldn’t matter if those are scientists, migrants, or idiot rich people with…

The best potential story arc would be the tension of Negan ending up as a father figure to her son. Maggie would be torn between the urge to keep him away vs recognizing he’s a good influence on her son. There’d be the ever-present concern as he grew up how she would properly honor the memory of Glenn and teach him…

Best example of this was Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. His Hollywood image fit the notion of Nick Fury so perfectly that his casting was like shorthand for his back story. You don’t know anything about his past but you are 100% certain he is a badass. It didn’t matter that he looked NOTHING like the original art in…

It’s a story about rich people, hubris, and death in the frigid Atlantic caused by obvious-in-hindsight bad decisions driven by a corporate mandate to deliver on their promises to their rich clients, safety be damned.

Ironically, the Titan is the wish.com version of the wreck it went down to visit.

It’s a tool that wouldn’t exist without exploiting loopholes in intellectual property law and the legal system. Stop thinking of it as a tool that “creates art” and more one that “aggregates a copy of other peoples’ art”. Like how ChatGPT is less “AI author” and more “AI cut-and-paste plagiarist”.

And it’s not like…

They don’t even try to hide collusion anymore. Corporate regulation in America is a joke.

I think if there’s anything we’ve learned the last few years it’s that rich people are just as clueless and incompetent as the rest of us; they just have enough money to do real damage with their ignorance.

What we’re seeing now is the logical endgame of an insane period where a bunch of “venture capitalists” (golden…

The only reason we don’t have any solutions better than, “hoping kids have more empathy than adults,” is because the mindset people like him have isn’t some fringe belief. They’re just based on attitudes around women being second-class citizens that huge groups in our society still share.

I’m betting nothing about this…

Their concerns are very valid. I just find it suspicious that the reporting has specifically focused on those concerns while ignoring or downplaying many of the concerns experts have been raising for years (or months in the specific case of ChatGPT). So much emphasis on how good they are and the risk they’ll replace…

The scaremongering the media has focused on has been about how it’s so effective and will replace jobs, largely ignoring the bigger concerns brought up by experts regarding abuse of the technology or implementing it in dangerous ways. They’ve placed special focus on ChatGPT and how good it is at creative writing.

ChatG…

The irony is that they could totally create this movie without constraining future movies. The problem is doing so would ENRAGE the type of fans who can’t handle not having an explanation for everything. Keep in mind people’s reactions to spirituality and vagueness in the finales for Lost and Battlestar Galactica.

So…

The conspiratorial part of my brain can’t help but see all the media hype around ChatGPT replacing creatives happening at the same time as the writers’ strike and not think, “Are we really waking up to the dangers of AI or are the news outlets (owned by the same people who own the studios) just scaring everyone so…

Humans learn from pre-existing writing but also from countless other experiences that will necessarily affect their life and, consequently, their writing. They may write something derivative or bad but it’s more than just the sum of what they’ve read online.

AI “knowledge” in a case like this is composed ENTIRELY of…

Roger, roger.

I’m sure people like it and find enjoyment and good for them but this feels like a cynical check off a list of cash grabs. It even comes across in the article where you make a sincere attempt to be impressed but the most praise you can give it is “it’s hard to make round Lego but they made round Lego.”

Maybe there’s…

You misunderstand what’s going on here. They aren’t in the business of telling original stories or appealing to a wider audience. They are in the business of monetizing nostalgia.