{"title": "AI is Box-Office poison", "timestamp": 1783681063.031389, "description": "Why do people go to cinema? A billion dollar question, isn't it? Well, if you ask the [Austrian School of Economics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_school_of_economics) you will see that people tend to buy things they value more than the money they need to spend to buy that very thing.\r\n", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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You will be like \"Why the fuck would I pay to see this?!\" You will think that the money could be spent somewhere else instead. You could buy a new set of silver-ware or something.\r\n\r\nNow I feel like I should make a movie with such impressive use of AI technology, so I could say, \"Well akctchually...\"", "username": "Troler", "id": 0, "timestamp": 1783715739.6922758}, {"text": "c:0\r\n\r\n@Troler AI is by definition not impressive.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1783715812.8787966}, {"text": "c:1\r\n\r\n@blenderdumbass But it can be used to make such an impressive looking effect, to induce hypnosis. But I need more control over that tool, so a local AI model it is. Even then, it is not enough, the best solution would be to write a custom AI model and train it on local data so it would generate exactly what I want it to. The generation would be supplementary to the movie, since tisn't powerful enough to replace acting and visual story telling.", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1783715997.7592325}, {"text": "c:2\r\n\r\n@Troler At this point you can just make it in Blender or something. And it would literally be simpler. And if you want to pass it though \"AI\" so you could claim it is AI, just turn on the denoiser, lol", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1783716119.0663393}]}, "collections": [], "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["boxoffice", "movies", "ai", "chatgpt", "sora", "cgi", "vfx", "film", "cinemastodon"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/ai_is_box-office_poison", "likes": ["blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.scot/users/fluffgar"], "boosts": []}