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Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership
- baq 4mo agoI want a movie about Jassy ratting out Amodei to the feds
- downrightmike 4mo ago"I was told to say X" roll credits
- throwaway87543 4mo agoAmazon can't bury it without alienating Luca Guadagnino. Instead they are allowing anyone else publish it. Maybe A24 will want it, it is screening well.
- josefritzishere 4mo ago[flagged]
- ToucanLoucan 4mo agoBecause he is one?
- ribosometronome 4mo agoIt reads like this is meant to be a Social Network style portrayal where Altman is not necessarily portrayed flatteringly or with his approval, no? Where Melania was a payoff to a world leader, dropping this as they're making business deals also seems to be in service of their relationship.
- sd9 4mo agoIt's too early to do a Social Network for OpenAI
- boca_honey 4mo agoWe have the info already. Whole books about it. It is innevitable.
- sd9 4mo agoI think so too, I just thought the social network was a really good movie and I'd rather the OpenAi movie has an ending, you know. Or to be fair you could just get Sorkin to write it and I would lap it up anyway.
- nicce 4mo agoRight after taking part of restricting Fable etc?
- seasox 4mo agoThey don‘t even hide it anymore.
- d--b 4mo agoOh so there will be a sequel!
- JumpCrisscross 4mo agoThere is clearly a church-and-state issue with tech platforms owning studios. On the other hand, they have the cash. Not sure how we solve this without directly plumbing the cash to independent studios through a tax on tech funding a subsidy on independent studios.
- humodz 4mo agoIn the 1940s it was common for studios to own movie theaters, but the Supreme Court ruled that this violated antitrust laws and forced them to sell off their theaters. To me it's the same situation again, but now the theaters (streaming platforms) owning the studios. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
- reactordev 4mo agoAnd a federal government openly encouraging it
- runevault 4mo agoSadly the era of government that split up studios and theaters is long gone. Hollywood is built on a different time between things like this and its flavor of unions that cover the biggest players in the industry. Closest thing we have to a Hollywood today is games, but game makers can also make consoles and industry wide unions would never happen. Is there some unionization in games? Yeah, but I haven't heard of any single one that cover a significant number of different studios
- lotsofpulp 4mo agoThere is no church-and-state issue because the state is not stopping anyone from distributing video to whoever wants it. It’s trivial to make and distribute a video (or text website or audio recording). Just because one business does not want to pay for it does not entitle the public to it, like any other media.
- bluefirebrand 4mo ago
- basisword 4mo agoDoes Amazon likely have the power to hold this up indefinitely or will it easily be moved to another studio?
- Lerc 4mo ago"We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home." They are claiming they will not. Many people would have to have the power to hold it up indefinitely, films get delayed by many different factors. It remains to be seen which happens.
- hansmayer 4mo ago[dead]
- Gagarin1917 4mo agoHonestly not that big of a loss. Even if it’s Sam Altman being an ass the entire movie, it still wouldn’t be a good film because it’s about a wet blanket. He’s not Steve Jobs or something. It’d be about as interesting as a Jeff Bezos film. Nobody cares.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoZuckerberg's not a very interesting character but in the hands of a David Fincher, that wasn't a problem. Maybe the same is true for Altman and this director?
- zeroonetwothree 4mo agoThe Facebook founding was interesting, not sure about Z on his own.
- ThatMedicIsASpy 4mo agoOpenAI played Dota 2 for a couple of years
- kelvinjps10 4mo agois more about the drama of him being fired of openai it doesn't have to be positive to be interesting
- Gagarin1917 4mo agoI wasn’t saying it needs to be positive, I’m saying he’s a super boring movie character. A whole movie about him being fired from OpenAI just doesn’t sound compelling. A simple documentary would be a much better format, and likely more accurate and interesting.
- n2d4 4mo agoAmazon is actually much more reasonable than the headline makes it seem: > “We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” a spokesperson for Amazon said to Variety in a statement. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.” Well, yeah, I kind of agree. Amazon probably shouldn't be the one producing the film, and it sounds like they're working to get the rights sold to someone else. The headline also sucks because "after" means "months after with no evidence that it's related". It's just clickbait all around.
- iamflimflam1 4mo agoHeadlines are there to trigger people. It’s a shame that hacker news folk fall for them too often.
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- schmichael 4mo agoAmazon dropped the movie after announcing a partnership with OpenAI. The headline clearly communicates the only demonstrable action Amazon has taken. Whether they're actually going to sell it is TBD. Until they do, they've taken no concrete action except cancel it. I don't think this article is clickbait.
- n2d4 4mo agoWhat makes you think they've canceled it? Did you read past the headline? What should they have done here — keep the movie despite the obvious conflict of interest? Be more secretive about the fact they're trying to separate so no one can write articles like these? If they did the right thing, it would look exactly like this. And I think it's generally a good idea to assume good faith (even with corporations) — you can still get your pitchforks up if they do refuse to give away the rights to movie.
- andix 4mo agoStuff like that happens in every oligarchy. Either get used to more and more stuff like that, or regulate the sh* out of it. Without stopping stuff like that early on, the concentration of wealth and power only increases.