3.0? bud, we’re on at least 7.0

Another actual review, with comments on the director’s technique and the movie’s influences, instead of just paragraphs of plot regurgitation followed by a summary of whether the reviewer liked it? This bodes well for AV Club 3.0.

Staz Nair is an anagram of Star Nazi, so apparently he's well cast. 

“if the techbro predictions come true”

The Scargiver is an unmistakable blend of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and George Lucas’ Star Wars

“Snyder’s recycled efforts were most apparent during that movie’s space-cantina recruitment scene”

In the long term, you’re right, but in the short term, I don’t know that this is true. We’ve never seen an elimination of jobs on the scale to which there’s potential to happen in the next decade or so, if the techbro predictions come true. Societies with high unemployment don’t take long to break down into civil…

That’s a well-reasoned, optimistic take that I needed to hear.  Thanks.

They’re not, but I don’t believe that’s the right question, either.

It’s not just about whether or not you can tell it’s AI though. It’s about the actual emotional impact of the piece- the artisitic quality- and the ease with which it works.

Take image generators. Trying to get any of them to create very specific images can be very tricky, especially if it’s a remotely original idea.…

I’m looking forward to finding out why the Empire doesn’t just nuke the village from space. That’ll be worth two hours of my precious time.

“Everyone else loses: not just artists, but also consumers, who are expected to pay the same price for objectively inferior content.”

“three or possibly six more installments”
That must be very exciting for someone. 

I’m a historian, and I’ve written a ton about our country’s transitions through various economic and industrial phases. The technology that, for marketing purposes primarily, we are currently calling “AI,” poses an obvious threat to concept artists, illustrators, and other creative professionals. This is similar to…

Whoever made the call is thinking they saved thousands of dollars and generated in 15 minutes something what would take an artist a week or more. I don’t think some negative backlash in places like this register. Especially if it’s in promo material which is going to be forgotten a week after the movie is release.

“Jobs will be lost, but on the bright side hopefully AI can eliminate some of the “crunch time” horror stories from say the VFX and game development industries.”

But that’s the thing, “everyone can make art” was true long before generative AI was a thing. 

For some reason the AVC in particular gets so many AI defenders

Because art is one of those things where the value is (at least partially) in the creation and the intention. It’s a form of communication, not just a tool.

Any product or work that uses AI, in any capacity, in its production is something I will avoid. I do not accept that this shit is inevitable. I will not lie down and let the plagiarism machine, trained on stolen art (and child pornography! Did we all just forget that it turned out Midjourney and co are all filled with…