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If AI wasn’t such a resource leech, I wouldn’t care. But it is demanding so much power, metal, plastic, water, etc… it’s hard to justify the technology. Especially when CEOs want to use it to lay all of us off.
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
walrusbanana.bsky.social
Hallucinations are not a bug, they’re a feature.
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
walrusbanana.bsky.social
I suggest getting Shark! I love mine, it’s also a dual mop vacuum. I don’t fuck with iRobot because they make policing robots for the US military. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRobot
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October 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
walrusbanana.bsky.social
Legit propaganda. The price of gas being $1.19 too, like, cmon
October 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
walrusbanana.bsky.social
Walmart nostalgia is so crazy. Like, are we forgetting Walmart is to blame for turning small towns into a freeway with box stores? It wiped out small business economies in this country.
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Reading this has made me want to do a larger write up of why this is a totally destructive direction but while technology has always been a part of the film industry, which btw VFX companies have been using AI for a decade, making a well made film does require a lot of experts and crafts people
to visual effects, sound mixing, editing, production, and script writing in search of efficiencies. A recent study surveying 300 leaders across the entertainment industry estimated that Al will affect more than 200,000 jobs over three years, especially roles in visual effects and post-production, which focus on editing and finalizing content. MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIES OF ALL TIME ESTIMATED PRODUCTION BUDGETS, ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, IN 2025 DOLLARS Cleopatra 1983 Jotn Corter 2012 SUSOM SaTeM Avengers: Endome 2019 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 Avator: The Way of Water 2022 Justice Leogue 2017 Fost X 2023 tonitor SUASM $423M 5392M $390M In the lead-up to the Oscars earlier this year, The Brutalist and Emilia Perez ignited controversy over their use of Al to enhance actors' voices (even with their blessing). But it's not that simple. Where some see an existential threat, others see innovation - an opportunity to lower the barriers to entry and democratize a field once reserved for the Hollywood elite and their offspring. Consider the multiple ways Al is already shaking up the industry: • The Tom Hanks and Robin Wright movie Here used Metaphysic's "aging" and "de-aging" technology to follow their characters over different stages of their lives. Studios otherwise would have hired multiple actors, relied on makeup artists, or used a small army of VEX artists at a cost of tens of millions of dollars. • An increasing reliance on tools such as Iruesnyc, which can manipulate the movement of performers' lips to accommodate dubbing in different lanquages s expected to lower demane for mumngua voice actors • Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry put an $800 million studio expansion on hold after seeing OpenAl's Sora and realizing he might not have to travel to locations or build sets. Even if Sora, which generates short video clips based on written prompts, isn't yet good enough for Hollywood studios, it's just a matter of time. • With Luma Al's latest tool, according to the LA Times, "a hoodie becomes a superhero cape, a sunny street turns snowy, a person transtorms into a talking banana or a medieval knight. No green screen, no VFX team, no code." • The directors of Marvel's Avengers: Endgame plan to build a high-tech studio and craft Al tools to make films with smaller budgets. If they're successful, Al will be used to empower artists, rather than displace them. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen more than three decades ago, captured the industry's attention in 2023 when he predicted that Al could cut the cost of animated films by 90%. Katzenberg is familiar with technological shocks. He was a pioneer in the animation revolution in the 1990s sparked by the advent of computer graphics and the success of Pixar's Toy Story. Today he sees promise amid the tumult, with Al accelerating a new wave of storytelling innovation. "I don't believe it's the end of Hollywood," he told Bloomberg. "Will it function the way it has in the past? Absolutely not." Now Pixar is the one feeling the heat. OpenAl and Vertigo Films plan to wrap an Al-driven animated feature called Critterz after nine months of production, in time for the Cannes Film Festival in May. Only a couple dozen people are working on it, and the budget is less than $30 million - 80% cheaper than a typical animated movie. Crossroads History is clear. Technological breakthroughs create short-term disruption and painful job losses but also unleash lower production costs, creative ideas, bold new businesses, and, over the long term, a net increase in employment. In the car industry, automation destroyed jobs on the factory floor. But we didn't envision the new jobs that building heated seats and car stereos would create down the road. In 1999 the average cost of developing and launching an e-commerce site was $1 million. Today you can set up a decent website for around $5,000. Your investment is 99.5% less, and you're entering a market that's more than 40 times bigger. Hollywood will follow a similar path as Al opens the door to independent filmmakers. You won't need tens of millions of dollars and Hollywood connections to produce a movie of theatrical quality. Ben Affleck is right: Al will make it easier for outsiders with compelling scripts to produce the next Good Will Hunting. Corporate Ozempic Al has become the Ozempic of the corporate world. While GLP-1 medicines switch off the signal in your brain that you need to eat more, Al suppresses the appetite to hire more, reducing companies' cravings for the protein of human capital. Hollywood is no different. Al will create new roles and elevate the careers of those who learn to leverage it successfully, but jobs will vanish. The collision between Hollywood and Silicon Valley signals the end of the blockbuster and the industry as we know it. The younger Ellison wants to bring the best of Southern and Northern California together. In this case, the "togetherness" is Northern California invading the city of Angels. Like most wars, the battle is over before it starts, based on which side has more brute force. Picture Iger, Zaslav, SAG-AFTRA, and 50%+ of the creative community hunkering down behind Chateau Marmont, armed with squirt guns.
September 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM