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NZ/Can writer/director, consultant, and recovering film/games critic (RIP BMD). 1/2 of Freak Development. NZ Writers Guild board member. Made GHOST SHARK 2; working on SO LONELY I COULD DIE and others. Inspired by actual events.
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An enthusiast press can be a good thing (see: critics who love the mediums they write about), but BOY it's terrible when the subject matter threatens catastrophic societal impact and the journalism amounts to "ooooh, cool"
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It's the thrown-away nature of that specific phrase that makes it so funny. Like we're brushing over this QUITE SIGNIFICANT DETAIL as if it's not important to the story, and forcing the audience to double-take even as we're moving on from it. So good.
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my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”
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the footage of the President's viewing stand is hilarious. He's visibly miserable and Pete Hegseth looks like a man visibly afraid of being sent to a black site as he is very clearly going to be blamed for this wet fart of a parade.
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It's so fucking good and Trump looks so fucking miserable and I love it
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I fucking love that theme music and title sequence
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You know who REALLY does not understand this? Government entities
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Although I guess that's not technically an interaction OF ANY SCALE, so maybe I'm hoist by my own Ian McKellen here
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I mean as far as interactions go, "I was on a theatre stage with this actor" ranks way above the more typical "I sat two tables down from this actor in a restaurant once" for example
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That was a pretty significant celebrity interaction imho
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Thank you
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Oh fuck yes I was worried
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Honestly it's more just a general vibe. These were very short, <100wds (they would've done it on their phone and transcribed to handwriting), so it's really just that it didn't feel like a human teenage boy wrote it
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It was pretty obvious (just too conventionally slick/competent), then we fed it into some detectors and they were all like "yeah bro a machine wrote this"
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Basically none of them surprise me that much hahaha
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Actually, this isn't true. They did know they would break things. They're more than happy to break a lot of things that don't matter to them personally - which encompasses most things tbh.
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The most misleading narrative coming from AI bros is not the "singularity" stuff, cause that's just funny. It is that AI lets everyone "create".
When you search an image on google and download it, are you also telling people you created it?
That's what AI images are. You just downloaded this, bro.
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Truly, that is the question
If anything the unlicensed music was part of its lost-film mystique so I'm very curious
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Ok, this blew up.
Check out my "FUCK AI" talk I just gave last week at A MAZE where I do a little deep-dive to explain in layman terms how LLMs work and are trained.
Feel free to show this to your boss in case they think AI tools have any actual value or merit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMq...