thallamabond
@thallamabond@lemmy.world
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 4 days ago:
Not “Completely”, but they are trying.
The Last Screenwriter
www.imdb.com/title/tt32236000/
“Featured Review” is telling.
Cancel-culture mob missed the point. Shame on the cinemas who cancelled the screening because whinging mobs shook their fists.
First of all, the movie is non-profit. Secondly, it was made by a real human crew and real actors.
It was clever to get ChatGPT to write a film script about a screenwriter who feels his job is threatened by AI’s superior writing ability. How can anyone not be curious to watch this movie?
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Ultimately, the script lacks any real punch or decent plot twists or narrative layering that we humans love about film. It doesn’t go anywhere you wouldn’t predict.
emphasis mine.
- Comment on Max Streaming ‘Enshittifies’ Further, Removes Classic Looney Tunes 2 weeks ago:
Not deleted, just not available to those who paid to stream.
Streaming does cost money, not much individually, but at the scale they are at, this is huge savings!($)
Think about it this way, the cost per customer will not go down (probably up), but the amount of content will go down.
The profits must increase every quarter.
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 5 weeks ago:
This works fine for informal things, like a correspondence with a friend, inter office communication, or perhaps a rambling Zine. However, for something formal like a resume, this would be bad etiquette.
Just a side note, If your mistake was found after removing your paper from the typewriter, good luck getting the paper re-aligned on any typewriter without decent detents built into the platen.
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 5 weeks ago:
Looks like most typewriters before 1973
Typewriters before this time did possess a backspace key, but it simply moved the carriage back one character space so the typist could use whiteout to remove a mistake. When struck, the correction key of IBM Selectric II would use internal correction tape to remove the mistake and replace it with a letter key manually chosen by the user
Read more at the ANSI Blog: Invention of the Backspace Key blog.ansi.org/?p=7178
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 4 months ago:
Yes, ignore false history.
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 4 months ago:
I recently lost my oldest email and I didn’t plan accordingly. Roadrunner email. It’s still a pain in the butt. I’ve managed to change almost everything (that I can REMEMBER) to my newer email, but there are two that haven’t been changed because they require an email to the old email first… It’s gone.
That email was probably 20 years old and I have no idea what services I had signed up through it.
The moral of my story is to read emails from your email provider. Apparently they sent out warnings 6 months in advance, but I always ignored their emails.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
CIA agent ‘drinks the kool-aid’
Cold-war era joke, pre-suppose all us media is ‘State’ media