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It worked and generated publicity. I suspect their next movie will get nominated for an award at some academy, bonus points if Oscar Micheaux[1] or anyone else with that given name gets mentioned. As long as BS sells, BS will get produced I guess. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Micheaux
Now, Cannes specifically – and entertainment generally – is rife with hucksters and people who started off as hucksters only to later become credible. Culture jamming is often looked back on as innovative!
But the difference between this and, say, Adbusters is that Adbusters and artists in general tend to punch up, whereas this – regardless of merit – is looked at by other artists as punching down, simply because it doesn't carry any intangibles.
And art is intangibles.
Time, culture, sweat, friction, a personal POV; art is an inherently human-to-human communication tool anyway. When you strip all of that away you lose something, in the same way a Big Mac is not the same as your mom's spaghetti.
I think that AI filmmakers, if they believe they can make films of high critical and/or or commercial success, need to avoid engaging in culture jamming and take a more honest approach. "This is my chosen medium" and then develop in public while treating the intangibles as legitimate, instead of something to be hacked around.
The trailer is also awful. A slopfest impossible to follow. The editing is nauseating, the sound design is uninspired and the visual quality is hallucinatory.
Which could fill a niche I suppose, but I doubt it'll ever have market appeal. Not in the current iteration, at best it'll be used as part of a production, e.g. to recreate or de-age older / dead actors, as a replacement or addition to what CGI and similar visual effects are used for right now. But there will never be a successful, fully AI generated film. I don't believe it, anyway.
And if it comes out that you lied you still get lots of trailer views, maybe even people checking out the full movie. All numbers you can show off to future investors about how successful your movie was
> Higgsfield, a San Francisco startup valued at $1.3 billion.. Tesla Robo Taxi, the clean up robot that break AirBnB furnature, this Ai Movie compani .. All news from THIS week about companies that just lie to get ahead. I'm tired of move fast and break things.
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> Simple fix, stop hovering the HN frontpage every hour, don't read every news item you come across, it isn't needed, and probably isn't good for our psyche either :) A, yes, denial with fix everything. Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes as a bubble and takes the economy and their livelihood with it.
Filtering what information you let affect your brain and mood isn't "denial", it's taking care of what you consume. Try sitting and reading about death, suicide, harassment, violence exclusively for a week, like if you were a social media moderator, and you'll notice how quickly you're affected by these things, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. > Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes a…
But that starts with telling you off. Someone says "I am tired of Y happening so often", and you talk to them like you're their nanny.
> Yes, this sucks, regardless of why it happens
No, the reasons why it happens is why it sucks. And the reasons are of supreme importance, being the reasons, and are also the key to making things better. It starts with paying attention.
> you move forward, find other ways to live your life, adjust what you can and life goes on.
Yes. You say "this sucks", someone tells you how to live your life, you tell them off and move on.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cannes-not-show...
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> Simple fix, stop hovering the HN frontpage every hour, don't read every news item you come across, it isn't needed, and probably isn't good for our psyche either :) A, yes, denial with fix everything. Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes as a bubble and takes the economy and their livelihood with it.
Filtering what information you let affect your brain and mood isn't "denial", it's taking care of what you consume. Try sitting and reading about death, suicide, harassment, violence exclusively for a week, like if you were a social media moderator, and you'll notice how quickly you're affected by these things, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. > Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes a…
Your feeling that “everything will return to normal” is not actually rational.
My vibe from this film.
That said, I wonder if in a couple years it'll be capable of making decent films. Maybe by then the costing of AI will be more realistic and people will choose not to spend the money on slop.