Xbox plans 'major reset' at the company going forward as the business falls under strain:
▪️Excluding Activision, Xbox has lost roughly half a billion dollars in revenue per year over the past five years
▪️Will end this fiscal year at ~3% profitability, down year-over-year
▪️Prices for console storage components will be 5x what they were last Fall
▪️Xbox has been impacted "more greatly" than many of their peers due to choice made in the past 5 years
▪️Need new business models and partnerships for hardware, committed to Helix
▪️Xbox is "overextended" after expanding the amount of first party studios
▪️"Need to reassess the balance" in investment priorities for the next 5 years
▪️Will "evolve and rebuild our stack and look at capabilities across all of Xbox and potential M&A to help us win in hardware, PC, mobile, and streaming"
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The Art Directors Guild slams Martin Scorsese for his generative AI partnership
They accused him of 'turning his back on the human artists who throughout his career have helped him create his most memorable works'
"Mr. Scorsese asks the question, 'how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew?' He claims the solution is the use of this generative AI program to do the jobs that are rightfully the jurisdiction of Art Directors Guild"
"Generative AI is only capable of producing this type of 'cinematic intelligence' by ingesting large swaths of copyrighted work, likely scraped from the internet without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency"
"The skills of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers bring the highest level of value to any film or television production. To think their professional contributions can be mimicked or outshone by generative AI, which is built on work likely stolen from them and many other artists from around the world, is a betrayal of the collaborative nature of cinema"
@carlos29017217@TheGhostOfHope Would be nice tbh, even if that means our ranks and stuff are reset (which they likely are anyway, at least those of us who changed our names)
@ssrivastav0494@charlieINTEL "Hajin" is the MW4 DMZ map, it's a fictional region set on the border of South Korea, North Korea, and Russia (much like the real life Tumen river)