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Re: The Free Movie

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Post by noduerme »

SanderNL wrote: post #54
bbstats wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are not problems.

I agree. While commendable, OP complicates matters greatly by declaring war on indecency and incompetence. What’s wrong with penises and bad drawings?

Seriously. People spend thousands to travel to Pompeii and walk through tittering about how naughty the Romans were. It's not as if those Romans were any different from the guy drawing dicks on a blank webpage. And if 2 measly millennia is all it takes to confer archaeological significance on phallic graffiti, why not just get ahead of the herd, take the long view (so to speak), and appreciate your own culture in all its messy future significance in the here and now?

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by cgriswald »

koolba wrote: post #46
civilitty wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be surprised if 2-4% of the total fr…

> Are there any YC startups specializing in detecting penises? I’m sure Reddit had developed, tested, and perfected this technology. I mean what the hell else have they been working on for the past 18 years?

Breakthroughs in PR?

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

SanderNL wrote: post #54
bbstats wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are not problems.

I agree. While commendable, OP complicates matters greatly by declaring war on indecency and incompetence. What’s wrong with penises and bad drawings?

by allowing penis drawings it pulls any artwork generated to be penis focused. Crowdsourced art suffers if it can only ever be about the penis is mightier than the sword.

Bad drawings likewise limit the aesthetic of what is possible.

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by eurticket »

jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

I think a solution could be everyone votes for the best frames.

Then those artists are called back to work on the frames people made bad.

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by jerojero »

eurticket wrote: post #65
jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

I think a solution could be everyone votes for the best frames. Then those artists are called back to work on the frames people made bad.

Yep! You need a kind of review process and some incentives. Not that difficult to implement.

You give several people the same frame to draw, then you just have everyone pick their favourite. The one with the least votes can be temporarily shadow banned from their next drawing appearing as an option. Alternatively, you can reward the one with the most votes.

But honestly, maybe just allowing people to choose the frame they like might be enough and you don't even need to do much more.

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by jerojero »

throwaway4837 wrote: post #38
sfink wrote: post #29

This is brilliant. Often, people will come up with clever-sounding ideas for how to "fix" some part of the internet. "Just let people do X and it'll all work out!" The movie generated by this project is a perfect illustration of what happens: you'll get some excellent results from a small subset, the bulk of people will contribute in some small but productive way, and you'll get a small-to-moderate sized group whose…

It can work well for restricted inputs, like Twitch Plays Pokemon. The FREE Movie is too open-ended. They should do a simple distance check to throw out frames that don't overlap much with the original frame. They could also have a frame-voting mode where you basically just get a stream of frames and swipe right if it looks good, left if it looks bad, then use the crowdsourced data so that the movie plays with the cu…

You don't wanna replicate the movie. I imagine if you add colours, for example, you could make your own interpretation of the colour palette and so something really amazing but as a distance matrix... you'd be way off.

I think just adding some kind of moderation, for example allowing people to select the best frames out of a set of frames and so on, might be enough to get a much higher quality product.

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by drik »

civilitty wrote: post #32
jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

> 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be surprised if 2-4% of the total fr…

https://github.com/studiomoniker/Quickdraw-appendix

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by szemy2 »

This is great, similar to the Johnny Cash video! Although that had a bit better execution, users could submit however many they wanted and you could select multiple version of a frame.

Will the voices be dubbed by the community aswell? If not, how does this evade the copyright issue?

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