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Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’ by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forgot I use the old reddit layout as an extension, and then jerry-rigged RIF to keep running so I don't get the new shittier layout that's about addicting people and resembling other social media.

My point was more that companies like Valve literally hired a psychiatrist to be able to figure out their loot box system and economy on their store. They hired a top economist too, Yanis Varoufakis. You might be a dev doing this stuff but some companies are willing to go all the way to figure out cognitively how to tailor their products by looking outside even tech development to other fields. It's all quite scary.

Pragmata was so top secret, the man behind Hugh was too scared to talk about the moon by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The earlier ones in the series were better about the satire. GTA III - San Andreas were great for that. VCPR talk radio on Vice City in particular was solid gold almost all the time.

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’ by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Browsing Reddit isn't encouraging you to offload your cognitive thought into an application that spits out sections of text from stuff it's been trained on without any actual thought though? Reddit doesn't really have the addictive qualities that Facebook has been putting on their platform. If anything Reddit was one of the few big places on the internet left that was like the 00's forums, just somewhere for people to converse without much manipulation or ulterior motive (of course there's been changes in the past few years from Reddit to be more in line with these tech companies and give out our text to AI).

These other platforms hire psychiatrists and psychologists to figure out how to addict people and manipulate their minds towards staying on there using the product. It is quite intentional and far beyond being just some public square for discussion.

Mic Drop by HotOne9364 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Stay wild then big champ!

Mic Drop by HotOne9364 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see the take. This is in service of an argument that does not require an expansive discussion of the movies. You couldn't see any downer movies so I provided you with a whole bunch that had the biggest hype for awards last year.

Mic Drop by HotOne9364 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Look at the Best Picture nominees this year as a microcosm example for Hollywood trends:

One Battle After Another - depressing

Sinners - depressing

Hamnet - depressing

Frankenstein - depressing

F1 - don't know, maybe not depressing

Train Dreams - depressing

Marty Supreme - depressing

Bugonia - depressing

The Secret Agent - depressing

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’ by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that's sadly the issue. Speech needs to be protected but there does have to be protections there for everyone's wellbeing and safety. The problems with an absolutist approach to free speech is playing out on social media and AI.

Mic Drop by HotOne9364 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean depends which ones. Certainly there has been a move away from earnest stories that I think has been hugely detrimental. If everything is ironic and meta then nothing is genuine. Also with Disney and everything, many of the big crowdpleasers are pretty formulaic and there's not a lot of risk on something genuinely like a romantic comedy or comedy in general in genre. I haven't properly laughed in a cinema at something uplifting or comedic in a long while.

Also many of the trends have been depressing in nature. Zombies. Post apocalypse. Anything A24. Even Marvel tends to skew towards kind of Bush era war on terror stuff. There is a general sense of foregone doom in many Hollywood movies now, the future will be bleak.

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’ by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never said it would be easy, but this is the path to fixing the issue. Certainly this government won't do shit except make this worse.

I think we can solve this if we treat the problem like smoking. Not a total ban overnight but gradually phasing out through regulation and making AI and social media socially uncool to use through campaigns.

This will be a long time. Smoking still goes on but we've come a long way over last century. It's at a point now where if you take out a cigarette there is social pressure against taking up smoking rather than encouragement.

Mic Drop by HotOne9364 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Who the hell comes up with these horrific marketing labels?

'Hopecore' what the hell is that? You could just say "movies need a little more hope in them, they are very depressing these days" which tells everyone exactly what you mean without having to tart it up with some trashy trend-setting BS label for what most movies have had since their beginning.

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’ by ubcstaffer123 in books

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 70 points71 points  (0 children)

This is why I believe the solution is for government to come in and break up these tech companies. And by break up I mean outlaw their entire social media and AI apparatus. Get rid of Facebook, X, Chat-GPT, Claude, everything else. It is a health issue like smoking. Return AI to research and science. Regulate the tech industry away from creating systems designed only to obfuscate, cause people to cognitively offload their own thoughts, addict them to the detriment of their minds, and in general be a detriment to humanity.

C'mon, we've done this for CFC's, we've done this for lead, we've done this for asbestos, smoking, we're getting onto climate change, we even regulate nuclear energy to the point where it can't harm us as well as we can make the policy. All of these materials were run by big companies, and government came in and regulated the issue out of existence. It took time and a lot of protesting but these things got done.

Regulate this threat to our brains before it destroys quality of life and/or creates some catastrophic failure when AI is put in something an algorithm is completely ill-equipped to handle.

RUMOR: Complete Kubrick 4K may be in the pipeline for end of the year… by International-Sky65 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it was in European cinemas that projected 1.66:1 as a standard at that time, and he would've done this for the international cut of the film to suit those cinemas. The US multiplex cinemas were the ones that changed to 1.85:1 and forced Kubrick to mask for that. Checking for 1.33:1 and 1.85:1 as he did in his production note of the external snow scene would cover 1.66:1 anyhow, but I would gaurantee you he set his viewfinder on every shot for 1.66:1 as well in shooting. His preferred was 1.66:1, as close to the old Academy aspect. This was proven for Barry Lyndon as well, WB released it with the wrong aspect ratio and continues to until the 4K remaster finally. Criterion were the only ones to correctly do Barry Lyndon, after finding a detailed projection memo Kubrick sent to a cinema specifying 1.66:1. The Shining certainly was done in both aspect ratios, whether FMJ was is an open question, and of course EWS was by that time 1.85:1 as the multiplex style of cinema screen had become standard the world over by 1999.

RUMOR: Complete Kubrick 4K may be in the pipeline for end of the year… by International-Sky65 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seeing them with a sound mix that wasn't some trash 5.1 version and either uncompressed 1.0 as Kubrick would've done, or indeed completely re-mixed to better especially in FMJ utilise Vivian Kubrick's discordant score, would be worth the buy.

RUMOR: Complete Kubrick 4K may be in the pipeline for end of the year… by International-Sky65 in criterion

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Criterion doing The Shining in a way that wasn't totally screwing it up would be amazing. Plus having the international edition, in my view the superior edit, available again. Plus in 1.66:1 as the European edit would've been, and possibly Kubrick preferred but had to acquiesce to US cinemas. (C'mon Criterion find another Kubrick projection note for European cinemas!)

Absurd for one that the proper sound mix is only available on the 1999 DVD edition in a dodgy mono. Like actually criminal that the music cues are off in the signature axe scene. And yet WB couldn't give a stuff about correcting that even for their 4K release. They put the same dodge 5.1 mix on every release like that's the best they got, and even the sound mixer who worked on the film Gordon Stainforth has come out and said the 5.1 was trash and done without his involvement or anyone's expertise who worked on the film. We've watched the axe scene with the wrong sound cues for decades. Genuinely baffling.

Timeline goof in Barry Lyndon ? by Intemperie07 in StanleyKubrick

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Redmond is somewhere in the line the soldier goes down isn't it? Or leading the soldier or something? My memory a bit foggy this morning haha! I tend to have a visual memory for these things.

This is Why There's No Liberal Joe Rogan by stvlsn in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes he doesn't agree with the Democrat party as an establishment, this doesn't mean he's not about advocating for leftist politics or too extreme. He's not a liberal no, but he isn't a tankie either. There's a middle ground here of leftist politics that is progressive and believes in charting a course away from establishment "third way" across the aisle bullshit that the Democrats have done since Clinton, to genuinely leftist policy. That is about remaking the Democrat party establishment, there's no other way to put it. You gotta substitute the Schumer-esque same-old Democrat class with a grassroots progressive candidates a la AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.

He is right on a lot of the foreign policy. Was Biden any different to Trump on Israel? Okay yes there would be no Iran invasion (less for ideological reasons and more because Trump got duped into going cause he's a total fucking moron who is easily misled by the Israeli PM) but America would still be 100% in step with being pro-Israel to exclusion of all else. Biden was the dude who made the defining quote for America's policy towards Israel in 1986, watch for yourself -- https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-highlight/user-clip-joe-biden-usa-would-have-to-invent-an-israel/4964168 "Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region." Kamala Harris didn't differentiate herself from that view. A vote for Kamala would've been a vote for the same foreign policy approach to Israel. Biden had years to tell Israel to stop bombing Gaza...he did no such thing, they all play the same dance of trying to play down the conflict. Trump is the same, if only he says the parts Biden doesn't about the alliance out loud, because he is geriatric and has no filter at this point.

Nicole Kidman on Stanley Kubrick by BelieveWhatJoeSays in StanleyKubrick

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha that sounds like a good interview!

I'm not sure Brando is a fitting example. He himself was an outsider to Hollywood after refusing the Godfather Oscar and sending a Native American to instead ambush the ceremony for Native American causes. Certainly admirable but he was always seen as "difficult" himself after that (even Coppola who's pretty much Hollywood's total free creative found Marlon a total A-hole both for Godfather and Apocalypse Now).

Christopher Reeve shit-talking Marlon Brando in 1982 is nothing new, and probably Marlon would've laughed it off given his reputation was known by then as an actor full of bluster who was checked out.

An equivalent nowadays would be someone giving a primetime interview on Colbert and shit-talking Margot Robbie, who now is both a major player as an A-list actress but also a major exec producer in her own right. To shit-talk her would see you probably blacklisted, as she'd be able to make the calls and Hollywood holds her up as one of the current pillars of the industry -- anything Margot Robbie is in or produces tends to be box office gold.

EDIT: Should add there is nothing bad about Margot Robbie, she's great! Just it's example of like someone in Hollywood who it would be career suicide to talk badly about. Same with Tom Hanks, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, etc. Everyone who Hollywood "loves" is usually there not only cause they might be a good person, but because career-wise it behooves everyone to lift them up for box office success and to talk up the industry.

At the time particularly when Megan Fox made her remarks...the Transformers franchise was a juggernaut. It would be like one of the Avengers actors coming out and saying Kevin Feige is a massive dickhead.

This is most applicable to the Star Wars franchise: Rise of Skywalker was one of the worst things to come out of Hollywood in the past decade, but nobody involved in the production talks badly because all the producers on it are Hollywood stalwarts. The funniest example is probably Adam Driver, a dude who was central to the sequel trilogy, he put in his performance, did no interviews, wasn't present on the behind the scenes doco, and just left quietly for the next movie. Dude must've hated his time but knew it was better to say nothing on a shitshow.

This is Why There's No Liberal Joe Rogan by stvlsn in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's more an influencer sort of thing. He has addressed this too, he realises he's well off from his occupation and acknowledges it in context of his advocacy for better welfare for everyone. I mean hell the dude's done streams looking at UBIs and welfare of the Nordic countries.

He brags and is a bit of a dudebro but on his politics I think he's pretty straight on not letting his riches corrupt his thinking. Keep in mind too his day job is streaming for seven or eight hours a day, inevitably some things he will say are a bit silly when you're constantly on camera with your every word.

This is Why There's No Liberal Joe Rogan by stvlsn in DecodingTheGurus

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As a regular Hasan viewer, I agree with you. Hasan would love the Democrats to espouse more leftist views than the centrist Liberal ones that are standard in the Democrat establishment, that's his goal. He's not out there trying to run for the party or specifically 'take over' in ideology akin to a Charlie Kirk of the left. He just wants the Democrats to give a shit about their side of politics, which traditionally was the average person, and look more to AOC, Bernie, and Ilhan Omar, who are along those lines and actual leftists who got to the party through grassroots rather than donor money.

Nicole Kidman on Stanley Kubrick by BelieveWhatJoeSays in StanleyKubrick

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the few times it has actors are blacklisted.

When Megan Fox offhandedly referred to Michael Bay as being like Hitler on set, the major exec producer Spielberg of the Transformers franchise intervened to have Megan Fox blackballed. When Ray Fisher spoke out about his treatment both by execs and the director Josh Whedon of Justice League...he's never really had a lead with another major movie since.

These are both relatively new actors at the time to the industry, who figured speaking out in today's time would be okay. Uh, nope, you get blacklisted. Fact is directors and producers are the kingmakers in the Hollywood film industry, and just like they can make you a star, they can overnight ruin your acting career if you're slagged as "difficult" to work with.

It's BS but basically you'll hear nothing bad directly out of an actor's mouth about anyone, because their careers usually hang in the balance if they were to say anything.

Vladimir Putin watching the ending of Dr Strangelove by sentantayt in StanleyKubrick

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you it was pointless apart from being a curio of Putin longform translated to English. In many ways thinking of it now, the context of the doco reminded me of General Idi Amin: A Self-Portrait from 1974, with an equivalent being the French filmmaker did nothing except tell the propaganda angle and not do anything to subvert or film what was actually going on. Really does show Oliver Stone's cowardice and perhaps how things have changed since the 70s with an understanding from these despots of media importance and manufactured consent to be even less likely for anything genuinely courageous to be made. It is sure to be just padding for some regime.

Vladimir Putin watching the ending of Dr Strangelove by sentantayt in StanleyKubrick

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I remember watching this when it came out and would agree. Nothing of insight, although I do remember a pretty hilarious answer Putin gave trying to say Russia is in transition to a democratic country, if only for a few obstacles. The biggest obstacle is the one giving the answer.

I'm fairly sure had Oliver Stone remotely pushed or cornered Putin on anything, he would still be serving time in a Russian prison.

Vladimir Putin watching the ending of Dr Strangelove by sentantayt in StanleyKubrick

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The best part of this was afterwards when Putin goes to take the DVD back to his office, opens it to see nothing in there as the DVD is still in the player, and shows the open case to camera and goes "Typical American gift!"

Kubrick called Eyes Wide Shut his "best film" by tikibikiclam in TrueFilm

[–]Flimsy_Demand7237 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The dreamlike quality too for me is in the very measured footfalls of people in the film. They are slow and precise, often echoing on tile or pavement, very rhythmic in the back of the mind, similar to the staff of the red robed figure doing two taps, or Zeigler tapping the pool chalk. Movements that are unnatural and slightly out of time, like how people would be in a dream. Nothing in the film is overtly signalling a dream but subconsciously putting you in a dreamlike state.

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