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    15 days ago

    Now canceling the show mid-story by Season 2 will be cheaper than ever!

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    15 days ago

    A boomer coworker recently said something that made a lot of sense to me: Netflix is for 2020s TV what Motown was for 1960s music. They’ve turned the artform into a production line, constantly optimising to shovel out as much content as possible, hunting the minimum viable product, and occasionally, very rarely, producing something good almost by chance. L

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      14 days ago

      sounds like your coworker just wanted an opportunity to bitch about motown. this phenomenon isn’t unique to motown either.

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        It really isn’t. Optimization of any business usually yields promising benefits. But there are always those that lose to the optimization. Sports, films, music, even other businesses always cut people out that don’t pull their weight or make it pain in the ass to match the new focus.

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    15 days ago

    Why only the effects? They could generate the series or movie on demand based on your algorithm recommendations! A great way to cut costs on this nasty expensive storage. (/s)

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    Glad they are finally cutting costs at least. Will be nice to see the subscription cost finally drop for a change instead of perpetually getting jacked up with no improvements in the service provided. So when does the lower cost subscription start?

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    I’m divided because on one side AI is taking away many jobs that now outputs low quality shit. On the other hand, AI may allow small creators to see their vision become real with tight budgets, specially in countries without a strong movie industry.

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      Netflix were outputting a lot of low quality shit before AI got involved.

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      the problem is AI is trained on art by small creators who don’t get compensated for it at all.

      To me it’s fine to use for personal hobbies, but as soon as you start trying to make money with it or even just present it publicly you get into murky waters.

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      I’m sorry but you’re a clown if you think AI is going to be a tool used to help the little guy. Is like zuckerberg claiming Facebook will help connect and bring us together.

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        Is like zuckerberg claiming Facebook will help connect and bring us together.

        I don’t like to admit it, but it has in my case. Pretty wild calling someone a clown for having a pretty good point/valid concern.

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    They can streamline all they want and keep pumping out forgettable content. Nothing tops great makeup work and special effects. “American Werewolf in London” transformation scene will always haunt me and I will never forget the title of that movie.

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    I mean, they’ve been using “AI” to write scripts for at least a couple of years (Hot Frosty and The Gray Man were obviously not thought nor written by a human, for example), so I guess this was inevitable.

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      15 days ago

      How things are made matter just as much as the thing itself. People who can’t understand this simple fact are half the reason our environment is being destroyed.

      If the end result is all that matters, there are a ton of unimaginable horrors that could be done.

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      it sure does matter to all the VFX artists who’s work the AI has been trained on without their consent, and who now aren’t getting hired because the plagiarism machine is cheaper