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I don’t know who needs to hear this but movie theaters are not your living room. I can’t remember if movie theater etiquette was always this bad but I swear near every movie I go to now has at least one couple having a full blown conversation.

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

Incredibly sad news out of nowhere

From: The Good Soldier Švejk (1954), dir. Jiří Trnka, Loutkový Film Praha

The art director of the New Yorker being an "AI whisperer" should be a red flag for all artists who might work for the New Yorker going forward. The Spiegelman thing is a whole other bummer.

Imma let you in on a little secret: I always thought it was humiliating that American comics required prestige-washing via a cartoon mouse during Holocaust, and your man is rubbing your face with it even now

Now that this is out in the open, I can say that a certain book I did for a certain publisher affiliated with one of these people had generative expand used on my cover art without my permission, and it wasn’t removed before publication

if you're at the top of your field and you don't even want to try anymore, then get out of the way and let someone else take the wheel for a change. jesus christ.

I was like "who is this jacob navok guy that tim sweeney is amplifying" assuming he was some failed steam shovelware peddler whining on his own behalf but no, he's a former Square Enix executive, lol. smol bean disease continues to infect the executive class.

‘Customers should be less informed about the products they buy’ is such a wild stance to take

THE FACTORY

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local AI guy who could "finally focus on the higher level ideas" now asking AI to come up with some ideas

important to remember: the only reason these guys are rushing headlong into this dangerous nonsense that they don't even fully understand is so that a few of them can beat the other ones to becoming trillionaires. that's why livelihoods, lives, and the entire current order is being put at risk

we could probably save the uk economy for at least one more quarter if games workshop reprinted a complete line of horus heresy omnibuses

Imagine you pour your heart out to your therapist and you find out he wojaked you

Fans WALKED OUT of the Street Fighter movie because of this Blanka origin scene

So do you think the six fingers are A: A joke acknowledging AI's flaws despite their obsession over it B: Deliberate internal sabotage C: A genuine oversight they actually managed to miss somehow D: A deliberate inclusion they know will generate buzz, even at their expense Leaning toward D myself.

How could I forget the pièce de résistance: the original rules page said you HAD to generate games using AI, and they quickly changed that to something else, because somebody over there ALSO anticipated showing their ass over this. Imagine if every spotlight game doesn't use AI.

Personally, I'm anticipating the tidal wave of complete dumpster water this is going to generate. They are going to get tens of thousands of entries that are barely playable and the ugliest sludge anyone's ever seen. Even the winners are probably going to be wet cardboard at best.

I like how former Valve designer Chet Faliszek puts out this scathing critique about how Epic has all these resources to make AI work and hasn't, and jokes that "If it's so good, why don't you have game jams and turn out constant amazing games?" 48 hours later, it's put up or shut up I guess.

Pangram also backs the eye test here. Across the board, the pieces flag at 100% AI. There are important q's about how Pangram can and should be used in any publishing or editorial processes, but to completely ignore that kind of consistent result is, by my measure, to simply let scammers win.

Update: With further investigation, I've found that this guy has published literally 30+ pieces in mags over the past year, out of nowhere. That is, per @bonabooks.bsky.social's astute recommendations, just not believable on multiple levels, and they are full of consistent red flags of AI use.

I know "Marvel publishes dogshit" isn't news, but the sheer ineptitude of this bizarre F1 promotional comic... thing they're charging $4.99 for is really something

So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now.

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Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Every org running anything like "everybody who submits gets posted" (e.g. Steam, Kindle Store, console storefronts, etc etc) are going to have to change models or get slopped into uselessness like Pinterest.

Basically any open submission portal of any kind of going to be spammed to hell from now on; the era of being able to have *anything* unmoderated is over.