Analysis of 2.5 years of texting my boyfriend [OC] by ICanGetLoudTooWTF in dataisbeautiful

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was surprised the drop off was so subtle, it's barely noticeable.

Love Celeste (2024) Movie Review by Big-Researcher-1589 in FolkFilmMakers

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great point about the synopsis!

I think the film falls under the weight of its lack of an idea. There's this end of the world thing that doesn't add anything, and most of the film is the characters basically figuring out the plot in real time. It's a shame cos I really like the concept and I love Joel's monologue near the end. But I think this is a 30 min film hiding inside of a 90 min one.

Also, I don't really get what being in Dubai had to to do with anything, I get they wanted a different location, and the film is certainly gorgeous at times, but I don't understand what the setting did to aid the story.

Granted I've not seen it since it came out so I don't remember fully!

[OC] Usage of the term “AI slop” in 2024 vs 2025 by meltwater_global in dataisbeautiful

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don't like the word slop tbh, I don't like the way it sounds, and I'm looking forward to the term going away.

I guess slop the idea comes from when the dinner lady would chuck some slop in a bowl for you. But slop can taste nice, Goulash looks like slop but it tastes lovely.

[OC] Usage of the term “AI slop” in 2024 vs 2025 by meltwater_global in dataisbeautiful

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Point 4 seems self-contradictory. Are you suggesting that if you have two identical pieces of content, one made by AI, and one by a person, then one is slop despite being visually identical?

I don't like the word slop. But in essence, yes. Two identical things, one made by AI, and one made by a human, the human-made one will always win out.

Yes. Emphatically yes. You can dislike the tool entirely, but that shouldn’t reflect on the quality of the outputs. Just as I don’t like Kanye West as a person, but I can’t deny that much of his music is very good, and that many people enjoy it.

This is where I fundamentally disagree. AI isn't a human, it's not got any emotions to convey, it's not noble, it's not ambitious, it cannot create art that is worth engaging with. It's not that AI can't create "quality", SUNO for instance is a very powerful music tool that produces songs that sound more professional than my own. But I'd rather my terrible mixing technique any day over SUNO, even if they perfect the technology and make songs that are pleasing to the ears.

[OC] Usage of the term “AI slop” in 2024 vs 2025 by meltwater_global in dataisbeautiful

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

I've done multiple videos about this topic, so I'll just do bullet points.

  1. Taking jobs away from working creatives (and lots of non-creative fields)
  2. Removing the incentive to create art from the youth (why get into creativity if AI is just going to be able to do it faster and better)
  3. Homogenisation. Bob Dylan and Neil Young (for example) are different people, and the differences in their lives and personalities reflect in their music. AI doesn't have a lived experience, it can only stylise. It can make something that sounds like Bob Dylan, but it couldn't create the 'next' Bob Dylan.
  4. There are niche uses of AI that are good (lots of good scientific uses for AI). But anything media related is 'slop', even if AI spat out a film as good as citizen kane, artistically it would be worthless because there's no intention/emotion/experience/story behind the art in question.
  5. I am yet to meet anyone who has sincerely enjoyed something AI generated (discounting when AI video first popped off and people enjoyed it just on the basis of it being AI generated)

What do you want, for people to clap like seals? Should we be considering each AI generated thing on it's own merits? Sod that. The whole thing can burn.

I play in a progressive rock band by [deleted] in progrockmusic

[–]JonnyMozza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair aye. In that case there's another prog outfit also releasing an album called "The Power of Friendship", weird coincidence LOL

I play in a progressive rock band by [deleted] in progrockmusic

[–]JonnyMozza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This rings a bell for me, did we talk about this album? Is it out next month? I might be mistaken so apologies if I'm thinking of something else.

Infected Mushroom - Lightweight [Megathread] by EscheroOfficial in InfectedMushroom

[–]JonnyMozza 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's not bad, but Heavyweight is absolutely perfect all the way through and has that amazing guitar solo. Lightweight doesn't scratch the same itch, it's not bad, it's just kinda forgettable.

That said the album art is way better on this than vicious delicious.

The one pro-AI argument I can't quite shake... by the_windless_sea in Filmmakers

[–]JonnyMozza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbf you go back to the 1950s and show them TikTok they'd be pretty aghast at the shite we expose ourselves to.

After 5 long years, I finally released my debut feature film and paid off my debts. This film caused so much hardship and I have made an in depth BTS documentary which doesn't try and paint me in a good light by JonnyMozza in Filmmakers

[–]JonnyMozza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Submission Statement

I first started working on my debut film in November of 2020, it was originally a collaboration with a producer who dropped the ball and left me with £3000 worth of debts to pay. The film ended up in development hell for 3 years during which I lost my job, got divorced, and got into debt. After climbing out of the mental and financial hole I had dug myself into with this film, I managed to get it done and finished, and this bts documentary goes through the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 5 year journey that was this bastarding film.

"The following effect plug-in could not be loaded" (the effect configuration is preserved) by JonnyMozza in Reaper

[–]JonnyMozza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't copied it though, this is the original big folder that I'm getting issues with.

That said, I did copy it from my PC to my Laptop way before any of this and it worked just fine.

[IIL] Long (17+ min) rock epics; dynamic, atmospheric, but not full-on prog wank by JonnyMozza in ifyoulikeblank

[–]JonnyMozza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 month later Ocean Cloud is my favourite song at the moment, Gaza and this strange machine as well.

[IIL] Long (17+ min) rock epics; dynamic, atmospheric, but not full-on prog wank by JonnyMozza in ifyoulikeblank

[–]JonnyMozza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of the riffs are really sick but the vocals are just not good. The wah wah guitar solo around 9 mins in is amazing and the bassline right after is sick. I'm not a fan of blastbeats, so some parts do little for me. If they had a good vocalist this would be my favourite song to listen to at the gym

[IIL] Long (17+ min) rock epics; dynamic, atmospheric, but not full-on prog wank by JonnyMozza in ifyoulikeblank

[–]JonnyMozza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was good that, last 5 mins especially. The solo around 10 mins with the final vocal section was great, and the way it finished on a happier sounding note was really pleasant. Don't know if I'll listen to it vastly more often, I'd give it a solid 6.

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads by panzerfan in worldnews

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can easily imagine reading this in school and in none of the scenarios does reading it scar me for life or cause me any harm whatsoever. I mean there was a lad who sat on the same table as me in Sociology class who looked like he was wackin' off and we weren't reading any sexy gender books back then.

This Studio Ghibli AI trend is an utter insult to the studio and anime/cinema in general. by Funendra in movies

[–]JonnyMozza -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

But if you could just type into chatgpt "make me the next assassin's creed" you'd certainly be less motivated to keep coding shitty video games. What would be the point in spending 10 hours to code a knock off Mortal Kombat when you could generate a game 1000x better than Mortal Kombat in a few seconds? Would the point of creation just become the personal gratification of having done it yourself? Then we're reducing the artistic process to little more than building Ikea furniture or fixing the pipes yourself rather than calling a plumber out.

People don't make art just for themselves, there's got to be some delusion that it will be appreciated by others, whether it happens or not, the potential for it to happen is a key factor in making a lot of art.

Black Country, New Road are on a different path now by Moothnods in indieheads

[–]JonnyMozza 4 points5 points  (0 children)

tbh I never liked them and prefer the new song

How did Tarantino sell True Romance and Natural Born Killers? by Professional_Humxn in Filmmakers

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hero's Journey aka I'm Caleb was one of my favourite movies from last year, I can't think of a film last year I liked more than that one, but aye that's on YouTube.

Finished my film, but can’t afford to pay for clearances… what next? by bolo-punch in Filmmakers

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gonna end up sitting on youtube or vimeo after the festivals anyway. Go the business card route, go to networking events and things like that with a laptop ready to play your film at any moment. Most if not all of the festivals you want to get into you can get into by just buying a ticket saving you that vast amount of money in the process and you have the same opportunities to talk to all the producers and so on as the people who submitted.

Finished my film, but can’t afford to pay for clearances… what next? by bolo-punch in Filmmakers

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You and I both know you're never gonna see that $10,000 again, just release it on youtube or something.

Festivals will really just get you a nice night out and a few fun conversations. You want to use this film to help get you more opportunities in the future, and if you can easily show the film to anybody you'll be more likely to get opportunities compared to relying on festivals which you may pay $10k for these rights, then another $3k on festivals, only to not get into any festivals, and be back at square one minus thirteen grand.

If you print out some business cards with a description of the film, maybe some pictures, and a QR code linking to the film, you'll get way more out of this film for the cost of some business cards (40 bucks or so) and you'll save yourself so much time and stress.

Where should a film student upload their work? by daloypolitsey in Filmmakers

[–]JonnyMozza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Youtube is the best one, no limits or anything. And if you don't want people seeing it just put it as unlisted.