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Greg Fantomas F
Greg Fantomas F
@fantomascinema.bsky.social
Film historian, movie writer (various, including TCM, MSN Movies, Cinema Retro, Bulwark), director and actor (Sustained Reaction, Cetilusine), and host of YouTube Channel Unexplained Cinema Presents. https://www.youtube.com/@UnexplainedCinemaPresents/video
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Hey AI researchers, I hear AI is going to cure the damage caused by jumping out of an airplane without a parachute any day now. You know... just saying www.businessinsider.com/ai-researche...
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Good fucking riddance variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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I have no desire to see every movie that comes out like I did when I was in my teens and twenties. I watch a select few new movies and still spend most of my time seeing movies from before 1960 that I haven't seen yet even though I have seen thousands before 1960. I'd rather catch up on those.
There are many demonstrations on YT and TT of people feeding in famous literary works of the 20th century that come back with ratings of possibly or in part AI. The detection is shit because AI is based on what humans have written so it will detect what it learned on and classify it as AI.
France’s most prestigious literary prize has pulled a book from the longlist they think may have been written by AI. This is the start of what is going to become an authenticity nightmare for all concerned: authors, publishers, awards, readers www.ft.com/content/b002...
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Since I didn't want to pay for AI to make my inspirational picture of myself with a giant cat, I did it myself. Guys, I feel my creative rut lifting.
Wow, I think making a picture of myself with a giant animal will finally pull me out of my rut and get the creative juices flowing again. Thank you AI!!!
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Just a quick note to @sonnybunch.bsky.social who said that the casting of Helen of Troy would not have been a black woman in, say, the 1950s by someone like Orson Welles. In 1950, in his Paris theatrical production of FAUST, Welles cast Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy.
I could do a thousand videos and podcasts on chuds being sad about THE ODYSSEY and never get tired of them. I will do a thousand such podcasts. The gods said it can’t be done. But I know better. Better even than the gods.
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I could do a thousand videos and podcasts on chuds being sad about THE ODYSSEY and never get tired of them. I will do a thousand such podcasts. The gods said it can’t be done. But I know better. Better even than the gods.
“He didn't need to cast these people for diversity purposes. He cast them because they're the best actors... anybody who argues otherwise doesn't know a thing about film.” @sonnybunch.bsky.social dismantles Elon Musk’s attack on Christopher Nolan and points out that even Grok keeps correcting him.
I gave up writing essays because the TCM stuff has been reduced to newsletter posts and other offers are access media crap for little money. I'd take an offer from the Times but I don't use AI or steal so I guess I won't wait by the phone.
Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...