uziq
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Dilbert_X wrote:

Who is actually going to buy goods and services though?

[...]

I really see this AI thing not working in the highly profitable way it has to to justify the money 'invested'.
It will be another wealth transfer and could trigger another financial collapse.
that's basically where we're at. the entire silicon valley prelate class who are raising immense debts and cozying up to governments to sell this stuff are all high on their own supply. it's been this way for 10 years now at least, ever since the evil emanations of 'effective altruism', which is effectively a tech-worker cult, started spinning up its PR machine. same bogus pseudo-philosophy that sam bankman-fried used for his crypto-madoff scheme.

it's naked self-interest and sociopathic power grabs clothed in the familiar language of philanthropy and sci-fi adolescent fantasies of 'post-humanism'.

they literally don't care who will be leftover to buy goods and continue the circulation of economic activity. they're all getting unimaginably rich in the very short term. it's 'founder mode', baby! break things!

Last edited by uziq (2026-05-09 10:27:11)

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SuperJail Warden wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Yeah, you shouldn't date your AI. It isn't a real thing and certainly shouldn't be worshipped. But the anti-AI people are asking for trigger warnings for AI digital assets.
https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AI-Warning-for-Steam-extension-and-script.png
Neurotic liberals. That is what it seems like.
people want this because AI is flooding gamespace like it's flooding everything else. just a look at itch.io. ai assets, music, writing, and it's coming into steam too. valve made a rather tolerant choice in wanting this stuff to be accurately labeled. in the past, they've removed games from stores for stolen assets. some platforms for online media are banning ai content altogether.

again, you're just mad about any pushback because you use AI to manage your many sordid affairs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/March_Against_Monsanto_Vancouver.jpg/1280px-March_Against_Monsanto_Vancouver.jpg
Neurotic liberals. Not even a generation ago you people were complaining about digital art instead of hand drawn art.

2013

Poll: Painted or Digital?
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/mag … igital-art
Do artists work with paint anymore? I guess this is a stupid question. Do they just digitize everything?...

Like Hollywood movies. they've lost something evocative, organic, and true.
At least I have affairs to manage. Between the two of us you should be the one with the AI girlfriend. I don't even play video games anymore meanwhile you won't even volunteer in your community. Have you clothed the needy or fed the hungry lately?
marching against MONSANTO is not a neurotic liberal thing to do. monsanto is literally on james bond timing of evil.

as i've said, the physical vs digital medium war has more or less leveled out. your mtg forum reference feels pretty niche even for the 2010s. people are generally not trying to pass off their digital art as traditional art, even though programs can make it very convincing now. a self-respecting gallery will usually say what each piece was made with. [traditional medium in watercolor], [digital art made with inksplotch 6.5] or something. it's not hard, and you lose nothing. AI artists are like "look what i made with my own two hands," and comments are like "ooh!" and then the AI artists are like "buy me a ko-fi, thank so much you for your support and kind words." if it's made with AI, tag your AI. the solution is medium tagging. it's not hard. but AI artists want to be coy.

the similarities between digital vs. traditional, and ai vs. everything else, end very quickly. the controversy around AI exists at so many levels that just wasn't there for digital art at the time. there's traditional plagiarism potential, easier digital copy/paste plagiarism potential, and hyper-databank of art plagiarism by default offered on a massive scale by very wealthy, ethically dubious companies that squeal like pigs when someone suggests they should follow copyright law and actually pay people for their work.

in movie terms, we've gone from arguing about the merits of practical effects vs. CGI, to "was this even made by a human." it's not really the same, is it. we're looking at replacing actors and voice actors with AI. not really something you could've pulled off with premiere and audacity in 2010.

meanwhile, where we're going with AI technology is using it to secretly scan your face so police can come knock on your door because you glanced at a candy bar two months ago and the store is reporting shrinkage. so when an AI exec wrings their hands over controls like "YOU'D END AI!", good! when can we start?

again, you're just mad about any pushback because you use AI to manage your many sordid affairs.

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SuperJail Warden
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Netflix apparently is making limited series of famous books. They made East of Eden an 8 one hour episode miniseries. 100 Years of Solitude is a 16 episode series.
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unnamednewbie13
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paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssss
SuperJail Warden
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Why?
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unnamednewbie13
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a decent book-to-movie feels like once-in-a-generation. we're probably not going to see it with netflix slop. also, fuck netflix. read the book. i get roped into watching netflix enough already. watching ads after years of not is torture. like going back to mcdonalds after your boycott is old enough to buy cigarettes. and then there's the content itself that's like dialog printed out of a machine that shuffles tv tropes. barely better than actual generative ai. gigo. the ads are ai, too. pulling your fingernails out would be less painful.

my view of this stuff is already dimmed, so again, pass. bring back blockbuster. upsell me a rent x get y free, and a box of licorice. will it play? will it not? the anticipation is part of the fun!



what do we really have now? go onto a movie discord? socialize with a bunch of corporate avatar presets and handles people chose way back when they were 14? get badgered to buy crunchyroll and sit through all of one piece? there was something, magical or at least people of walmart, about a late night blockbuster run. imdb and wheretowatch sites don't really replicate the feel of walking into a giant building lined with titles and categories and new releases with a person working behind the desk who's a trivia god. now you have to ask chatgpt to dig up the title of that one 90s movie with that one line in it.

at least rental places were honest about you not owning the thing. streaming hides behind 800 pages of clickwrap. yeah we might trade your favorite show to another provider. sorry.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-10-05 21:02:13)

uziq
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

Netflix apparently is making limited series of famous books. They made East of Eden an 8 one hour episode miniseries. 100 Years of Solitude is a 16 episode series.
the idea is cool on paper - capitalist megabehemoth pays a little something back to Kulcha - but i fear for the results. the 'house style' of netflix is genuinely egregiously ugly. i don't know if it's the camera lenses or colour grading or whatever it is they use over there, but it all looks very '2020s' and will age more horribly than daytime hallmark movies imo.

besides, ingrates attempting the classics reminds me of something like james franco using his own production company to make a bunch of self-aggrandizing faulkner adaptations. starring ... HIM!!!

Last edited by uziq (2026-10-06 01:33:17)

SuperJail Warden
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Newbie, it wasn't a movie. It was a 7 episodes one hour each. So the whole book was covered over the course of 7 hours.

...

Just get a subscription to Netflix without the ads.
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yeah until they put ads on that stuff too?

sitting through an even longer showing doesn't make the prospect any more attractive. why should i get invested in a mediocre show from a mediocre service i don't really care much for.

at least prime, when i had it, came with other stuff. exclusive delivery to lockers of my choice. no additional cost. no porch piracy. prime video was an afterthought.

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