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Hollywood is fuming over a new 'AI actress'
- cheschire 1y agoWe're almost at the point where AI can generate a better Star Wars Episode 9 that actually makes sense.
- stackedinserter 1y agoThat's not how AI will take over Hollywood. Most likely, it will be hybrid work, when good but broke actors will sign contracts that allow studios train and use their AI avatars in future movies and promotional materials.
- gamblor956 1y agoThat's unlikely to happen unless the studios offered the actor enough money to retire immediately. We know this because the studios have already tried to do this and even Z-list actors expect 6-figure payments for the loss of control of their own image in perpetuity.
- rhetocj23 1y agoYeah but forget about that. Why do people watch movies? Theres a whole lot more going on than just someones image.
- stackedinserter 1y agoTrust me, there will be plenty of actors who will agree to that for $10K now plus something like 0.05% of box office later for every movie, just because they are broke. I guess studios won't even need to do that, they will crank different versions of movies and A/B test them until perfection, with completely artificial characters, for different audiences.
- spicyusername 1y agoI mean... we already have fake actors in every movie or TV show that is animated.
- rhetocj23 1y agoNonsense. You know full well there are humans behind the production. Even in an animated movie, there is a human voice.
- gdulli 1y agoIs there a name for the rhetorical device/fallacy where you portray your opposition as being mad, so as to weaken their argument by making it look emotional in nature? Who knows if this is that, but this made me realize that pattern is a part of this era.
- soulofmischief 1y ago"u mad bro?" has been a staple of internet vernacular for over 20 years.
- nerdsniper 1y ago14 years, but that doesn't invalidate your point. 0: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=u%20mad%20bro&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=u...
- soulofmischief 1y agoNo, it goes back to Cam'ron, here's an Urban Dictionary entry from 2004. [0] I've been on the internet for a while. "u mad bro" is a variation of "u mad" which was coined basically immediately after and used throughout message boards and IRC for years prior to when Google Trends tracks it. Google Trends can be a nice tool, but it's not a primary source of early internet history. [0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=u%20mad&defid=792442 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=u%20mad&defi...
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoAlso curious myself, because it does seem an exceptionally common framing device. Supposedly that is why Obama was so demure, he never wanted to be dismissed as just an angry black man. Which is also what made the Anger Translator skit land home.
- atombender 1y agoPoisoning the well? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
- ChrisArchitect 1y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424840
- vlucas 1y agoThis headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject: S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153 > A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.
- joshstrange 1y agoAside from "AI is going to take my job" what is their complaint? The "quotes" from real actors don't really have any substance: - “Wow … no thanks,” - “I hope this backfires in every way humanly and well… Non humanly possible.” - “F*k off.” I guess this just fits under my general "Horse drivers mad that cars exist" categorization. These tools lower the bar of entry (just like they can lower the bar to entry of programming when used correctly) but I don't quite understand why we need to protect jobs from AI. Maybe I'm completely out of touch but I look at LLMs and I'm not concerned for job (in tech). Sure, my job will/has changed but it's always changing, I've never understood people who expect to learn a job then never have to learn anything else ever again. I'll apologize in advance if this sound callous, it's not meant to be that way. Technology comes for everyone/everything eventually, that's life and it's not like we can just stop the forward march of technology. If we do we will become irrelevant on the global stage.
- FireBeyond 1y agoPart of it is a cult of celebrity, when you have people who are often feted for being mindblowingly famous/rich/both for "what they can do", used to being worshipped for their "unique talent", not hearing "no", then... that will also affect this.
- nameless912 1y agoThis whole thing reeks of a plant. I never heard a word about this, and I work in the entertainment industry, until this week. I'm going to assume this is manufactured attention trying to legitimize something that doesn't actually exist until proven otherwise.