The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could.

That seems fair.

The Brutalist used AI to improve Hungarian accents, which seems a reasonable use for it. They also used it to generate photographs of fictional buildings, which has done someone out of a job. However, someone else has to come up with the prompts and sift through the results, it just feels a bit… Cheap? Low effort?

Very impressive.

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I’m getting exhausted currently.

It must be collaborative or you’ll burn yourself out.

I wonder if it can be done on !ibis@lemmy.ml and then that information gets pulled through to another site where it could be used for filtering. And/or, as Ibis now federates with Lemmy (see !wiki@test.ibis.wiki), it would just appear on here anyway and you could search “political communities” and it would bring up the relevant wiki page inside Lemmy.

This also fits with what I was pondering on Threadiverse community alternatives to subs. There are a few sites that went up with the first Rexxit but they are no longer maintained and it would be better done in a wiki.

My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”. So we’d have:

wiki.feddit.uk/c/privacy

And elsewhere you’d have:

wiki.lemmy.world/c/privacy wiki.lemmy.ml/c/privacy

And these could then be linked in from both:

ibis.wiki/sub_alternatives ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy

Nail down your naming structure early on and it should go smoothly, with wikis being flexible enough to allow changes to be made if we needed to tweak things.

It is one of the reasons why I asked @nutomic@lemmy.ml about being able to log into Iris with your Lemmy account, because you could closely integrate Lemmy and Ibis, especially now it federates (no point in having two accounts).

As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.

And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.

Good bot

@remindme@mstdn.social in 7 days

And a general one: !starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

Let’s not forget: !thegoodplace@lemmy.world

And there is the Community community !communitytv@lemmy.world

I have some in the sidebar of !britishtelly@feddit.uk:

British TV shows on Feddit.uk:

• !gbbo@feddit.uk - Great British Bake Off
• !montypython@feddit.uk
• !peepshow@feddit.uk
• !reddwarf@feddit.uk
• !taskmaster@feddit.uk

And elsewhere in the Fediverse:

• !doctorwho@lemmy.world
• !doctorwho@startrek.website
• !reddwarf@lemmy.world

I’d guess that, while this is heading to the cinema, Amazon would be looking to start a TV series too.

It was badly conceived, planned, cast, executed and then undermined by studio interference. It failed at every single level and I don’t think Covid can take the blame.

Strong central performances save a plot with some pretty contrived plot developments. Worth a watch but you have to suspend belief. So a lot like the Church.

Free For All

Problems averted.

There’s a reason for that - it’s really good.

I’m a ginger, so take vampire-grade sun precautions. The other day someone said “make sure you put on your Factor 50”, which was confusing as I’ve been doing that for a month. Before it was common, I used to get it on prescription - it had the look and consistency of white paint.

No worries, do what you are comfortable with.

I may start a mad lads community one of these days.

It’s not.

Hairy books sounds more like something you’d get “under the counter” from a dodgy book seller.

Don’t tempt them, I’ve only just cleaned that mess up.