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“Hey girl, heard you like how crude I can be.”
China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
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'Blue Planet III' will deliberately include murkier and less polished underwater footage to assure viewers it's real and not AI-generated 🌊 The David Attenborough-narrated series won't feature a single AI-generated frame (via guardian)
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Sometimes I’m sad that I got rid of my IG. It was by far the largest platform I had and the printmaking gig was sweet. But every time I read something about what meta is doing I’m just glad I don’t have to deal with it anymore.
In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...
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1. The economy is in the tank. 2. I’m gonna go see it on Tuesday and a few other folks I talked to about this are also going this week/next week because they already went to see the Nathan Fielder movie.
LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood’ opens with $11 million domestically. It is currently the second lowest opening for the studio, behind ‘Missing Link’.
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People that get paid to represent the consultant class should be stripped of their job and forced to work customer service until conditions improve.
A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
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Tf do we still have mink farms for? What kind of old money vampire shit is this?
NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
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