‘BACKROOMS’ director Kane Parsons says he would get “no enjoyment” out of using generative AI on any project — “It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“I think I'm in the same boat as most well-adjusted people. If I could snap my fingers and make generative Al disappear forever, I probably would.”
(Source: https://t.co/LA3K1o9KjK)
The backrooms being something that takes from existing things, doesn't understand any of it, then feeds itself with the same thing over and over until it all starts to become unstable with that yellow tint? You couldn't make a better analogy for ai if you wanted to 😭
what should happen:
- studios promote young new directors
- smaller budgets
- less CGI, AI
- real movies produced with care, made by real people
what will happen:
- inde navarette funko pop
- OBSESSION cinematic universe
> be Disney
> spend $165 million and 7 years making a new Star Wars movie
> first one in theaters in 7 years
> open it on Memorial Day with 4,300 theaters and the entire Lucasfilm marketing machine
> take #1 for the weekend. finally
> then Monday comes
> lose to Obsession
> lose to Obsession again Tuesday
> lose to Obsession again Wednesday
> Obsession is a horror movie made for under $1 million
> it went UP 39% in its second weekend. yours opened below Solo
> a movie that cost less than your craft services budget just retook #1
you brought Star Wars back to theaters after 7 years. it got out-grossed on a Wednesday by a wish-granting toy from a movie 200 times cheaper.
don’t crucify me but I think this is a really good example of how this genre of large male streamer looks at everything and everyone around them only as opportunities for content. they don’t have empathy, they just see dollar signs
Historian of slavery here the Pope is single handedly showing us the best of America in these very troubling times and needed on the 250th of the republic, to see the virtues that made the U.S. admired all over the world, the ability to admit a mistake.
Pope Leo XIV on AI:
“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”