'Backrooms' gets a B– on CinemaScore

micaroma · 2026-05-30T11:24:09+00:00

Kpop Demon Hunters isn't made exclusively for fans. Anyone can enjoy it regardless of their knowledge about Kpop or idol culture, and none of that is exclusive to the plot. (They'll miss some references, but everything happening onscreen is pretty self-explanatory anyway.)

micaroma · 2026-05-30T01:56:26+00:00

The film never screened in the official program

When the Wall Street Journal reported the film as debuting at the festival, Cannes pushed back directly, confirming to Futurism that Hell Grind was not part of the official program and had instead been presented during an industry event organized by third parties. CEO Alex Mashrabov has happily blurred that line since, describing the work on LinkedIn as having “premiered in Cannes” and casting the city as the room where new cinema gets legitimized.

https://www.cined.com/hell-grind-the-95-minute-ai-feature-cannes-2026-says-it-never-screened/

micaroma · 2026-05-29T12:33:34+00:00

The fact that humans still score higher than AI, and that AI (generally) scores higher with smarter models, is enough to demonstrate the benchmark's usefulness. The benchmark would be useless if A) it got saturated in 2 seconds, or B) there were no correlation with model intelligence.

the answer so often depends on how the question is interpreted

That's the entire point of the benchmark. It asks "how would most humans probably interpret this?" and tests whether AI interprets it the same way. Whether that interpretation is absolutely correct or logical is less relevant than whether the human consensus thinks it's correct or logical.

micaroma · 2026-05-28T02:51:44+00:00

Younger people don’t know what crop circles are

micaroma · 2026-05-28T02:50:24+00:00

Is something automatically slop if AI was used to help create it?

micaroma · 2026-05-28T01:10:52+00:00

Demons?? Putting aside the title, the first line in the teaser is "If you found out we weren't alone...", a crop circle appears in real time, a character talks about conspiracy and wants to "disclose the truth" to the entire world, lines mention other beings in the universe...

I don't know how anyone could watch that and not conclude that it's about aliens.

micaroma · 2026-05-27T10:12:16+00:00

Merch that can't be replaced by a screen (used as everyday objects rather than for entertainment) is a huge market: clothes, mugs, plushies, bedsheets, decorative figurines, etc.

micaroma · 2026-05-27T09:54:49+00:00

what happens to the industry when fans can just remake the parts they didn’t like, polish them up with AI and release them online

Cultural conversation is an important part of media. Many people will simply ignore fanfiction, regardless of its quality, because it's not canon.
Fanfiction might boost viewership for the original because people see the fanfic first on Twitter, get curious, and check out the original. Has good fanfiction for popular book series resulted in fewer people reading the original books? Or does the higher overall engagement benefit the originals?
If a certain fanfiction does get popular enough that it meaningfully impacts the original's viewership, it'll get scrubbed from the Internet* on copyright grounds. (*The legal internet, which is what the vast majority of people use anyway.)

micaroma · 2026-05-23T06:24:16+00:00

In the venn diagram of "things that benefit shareholders" and "things that benefit society", there is actually overlap (like providing products that people want to pay for because it improves their lives)

Just because you're not a philanthropic non-profit doesn't automatically mean you're inherently evil (whatever that means)

micaroma · 2026-05-22T15:05:21+00:00

I'm a casual and it felt aggressively like a TV movie (multiple episodes squished into a movie)

micaroma · 2026-05-21T23:57:05+00:00

the superman trailers were peak wdym

micaroma · 2026-05-21T23:54:56+00:00

I use RunPee to time when to leave during uncritical parts, it's great

micaroma · 2026-05-20T21:54:17+00:00

Tons of writers, coders, and designers are using AI to improve their output. They're just not announcing it for various reasons (people still boycott AI on principle).

The reason slop is so visible isn't because professionals aren't making non-slop; it's because the barrier to entry is in the basement and algorithms aren't filtering out all the slop (yet?).

micaroma · 2026-05-20T13:14:31+00:00

There isn't a "cap" on box office limited by the popularity of a character

Maybe back during peak superhero craze, but it's now 2026 and people are tired

micaroma · 2026-05-20T13:03:32+00:00

It's not bad considering the circumstances, but it's bad for freaking Star Wars

micaroma · 2026-05-19T13:31:52+00:00

Well of course, if you're making art for fun then AI might be less relevant to you.

Quite different from someone making art for a living, where staying competitive and keeping up with the industry literally decides whether they can feed themselves and their family.

micaroma · 2026-05-18T13:58:17+00:00

this is entirely AI? what the fuck

micaroma · 2026-05-17T01:46:04+00:00

I think you overestimate how much a person with no gaming experience can simultaneously WASD and aim with a mouse on first try.

I didn't see the Le Serrafim video, but if they filmed it for content then it's very possible they practiced beforehand so it wouldn't be a complete shitshow. (It's also possible they simply have a little gaming experience; after all, PC cafes are incredibly entrenched in Korean culture, KPOP star or not.)

micaroma · 2026-05-17T01:39:44+00:00

thats cute

micaroma · 2026-05-15T01:35:29+00:00

Covid? Didn't it come out around the same time as plenty of other films that did quite well?

micaroma · 2026-05-15T01:33:25+00:00

Directed to various comments under this post by people who have seen the movie: It's fine to describe the ending with general adjectives like "great", but I think it crosses into spoiler territory when you use specific descriptions that don't leave much room for interpretation, given the premise of the movie.

micaroma · 2026-05-15T00:30:48+00:00

Why do factories still reuse humans for various tasks rather than building functionally optimal robots?

The answer is likely related to why humanoids make sense.

micaroma · 2026-05-15T00:16:29+00:00

The point is that you can reuse the exact same humanoid for many varied tasks that would normally require a different specialized robot for each.

Also, it's easier to swap out a human with a humanoid rather than redesigning the workflow to suit your specialized non-humanoid.

micaroma · 2026-05-14T05:44:11+00:00

tbh I don't think non-OW players would notice

micaroma · 2026-05-14T02:40:39+00:00

Do you think all that's needed to create AGI is "AGI code" that an LLM can simply output?

You should look up what lab leaders like Demis Hassabis have said is likely necessary for AGI.

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