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Thoth
@thoth.ptnote.dev

There will never be a successful AI-generated theatrical feature. There might be a successful theatrical feature that USES AI GENERATION. If you think Everything Everywhere All At Once counts (which it arguably does?), this has already happened.

Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

cartoonbrew.comChina’s First AI Feature Flops At The Chinese Box OfficeBona Film Group’s AI experiment struggled to attract attention, months after the humble 'Niu Lai’ turned online ridicule into almost $10 million in sales.

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Thoth
@thoth.ptnote.dev

I've said that I'm not NECESSARILY averse to AI generation... IF it's being used to do something artistically meaningful. We may then proceed to have a very long discussion of where exactly the line on THAT is but we can agree that anyone flooding the world with knockoff garbage doesn't cut it.

Thoth
@thoth.ptnote.dev

Like I'm fine with EEAAO's use of AI? So at the very least there is some level of AI use I have decided to be okay with I guess but I'm still struggling to quantify where I think the line is because there's a lot of AI use like this shit that I fucking hate.

Thoth
@thoth.ptnote.dev

But at the same time having used this stuff for software development I know that a lot of people who don't have a lot of knowledge or experience are going to use the AI tools that actually do work to make a lot of weird and interesting slop things that are trying to sincerely express something?