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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke about his concerns related to the impact of AI video synthesis on entertainment industry jobs. In particular, he revealed that he has suspended a planned $800 million expansion of his production studio after seeing what OpenAI's recently announced AI video generator Sora can do.
"I have been watching AI very closely," Perry said in the interview. "I was in the middle of, and have been planning for the last four years... an $800 million expansion at the studio, which would've increased the backlot a tremendous size—we were adding 12 more soundstages. All of that is currently and indefinitely on hold because of Sora and what I'm seeing. I had gotten word over the last year or so that this was coming, but I had no idea until I saw recently the demonstrations of what it's able to do. It's shocking to me."
[...] "It makes me worry so much about all of the people in the business," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "Because as I was looking at it, I immediately started thinking of everyone in the industry who would be affected by this, including actors and grip and electric and transportation and sound and editors, and looking at this, I'm thinking this will touch every corner of our industry."
You can read the full interview at The Hollywood Reporter
[...] Perry also looks beyond Hollywood and says that it's not just filmmaking that needs to be on alert, and he calls for government action to help retain human employment in the age of AI. "If you look at it across the world, how it's changing so quickly, I'm hoping that there's a whole government approach to help everyone be able to sustain."
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:36PM (2 children)
That question comes up every few years. Yes, there is plenty. The reason it doesn't seem like it is it comes in waves instead of as a steady stream. My wife and I have a few old shows we keep around (Supernatural, for example...) to fill in the blanks in-between seasons. Here's a few shows my wife and I have been enjoying the last couple of years:
- Strange New Worlds / Lower Decks / Prodigy / Discovery. (pick up to two....)
- Twisted Metal (i wish someone told me sooner it was a comedy)
- Hello Tomorrow
- Ted Lasso
- Fall of the House of Usher
- Succession
- Doom Patrol
- Umbrella Academy
- Futurama (I think we're getting two new seasons)
- Disenchantment. (I believe this one wrapped)
- Resident Alien
- Orville (this one is polarizing, im personally not a fan but it's popular in my circles)
- One Piece (recent addition to Netflix, not referring to the anime .. tho it is good too and has a zillion eps)
- Avatar the Last Airbender (JUST came out on Netflix...)
- A number of Star Wars shows relating to Mandalorian. I have not watched Andor yet but that one has been recommended by my buddies a LOT.
- not Book of Boba Fett
- Loki (my personal fave of the whole list)
- Last Week Tonight and Daily Show. (technically that's two but I don't know anybody that likes one but not the other.)
I feel like I'm forgetting a couple of big ones, but you get the idea. I really liked WandaVision and Ms Marvel, too, but I don't get the sense those went over well here. Gah I feel like 2 seconds after I post I'll remember a couple of big omissions.
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(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Tuesday February 27 2024, @09:43PM
I watched the latest Futurama season and it wasn't good. Jokes about voodoo curing covid and one episode is a 30 minute joke about crypto.
The new Star Trek series might be a bit too much for this crowd though. Any more than one token black person in their show is too much.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Wednesday February 28 2024, @01:00AM
One that caught my interest is Dharmakshetra. Remember the Mahabharata? The longest poem ever written? About a major war in Indian mythology that destroyed pretty well everything? (Hint: the Bhaghavad Gita is a small part of it).
Well, Dharmakshetra happens in the afterlife. It's a kind of judicial review determining whether the proper ethics of war were followed during the war.
Fascinating stuff. And the more you know about the original mythology, the more you'll get out of it.
I ended up downloading the Project Gutenberg translation of the Mahabharata to learn more about the underlying mythology.
I watch Dharmakshetra on Netflix in small doses. It can be intense.