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More importantly though - why would AI change the prevalent ideology in movies? Won't the same people who already make movies keep making them, just using AI?
There is no culture war in America. There is only a group of people who feel threatened by the existence of content that isn’t targeted squarely at them. There is only a group of people who are terrified that, if they aren’t the majority voice in absolutely everything, they will end up being treated how they treat out-group members.
>Notice the comment you’re replying to was written by a throwaway account.
And this brings up the next point: There has never been a time in media entertainment where both the industry and it's professional critics have been so openly hostile, so fervent, so downright dogmatic in insulting and hunting down their detractors to punish them for holding the wrong opinion. They encourage their audience and supporters to go out of their way to harass and silence anyone who disagrees with their content. The fact that people don't want to be associated with that toxicity doesn't make them cowards or racists. Terms like "dog whistle" have come to be dismissive phrases of any criticism. You are attacking the speaker rather than earnestly trying to address the argument. You are dismissing an opinion because it comes from a throwaway account. Nobody is terrified of your shitty entertainment. They're terrified about losing their jobs because people can't take an insult over the internet and have to make it personal when their favorite manufactured outrage garbage show gets criticized.
Original comment was upvoted but still got flagged, which is evidence of exactly the type of sensitive bullshit I’m referring to.
disagreement =/= sensitivity. This kind of stuff is what many come here to avoid, because ultimately it leads to flame wars, and half of HN's policies and guidelines more or less come down to "don't flame".
You can talk about such issues without being flagged, but you need to actually talk about them, not mud sling. Maybe not without downvotes, because I'm not going to pretend HN doesn't have its kneejerk topics, but flagging a good 95+% of the time comes for good reason (at least on comments).
ehh, the culture war is by far the most annoying part of modern internet discussion. Casting it off as "one side if right one side is wrong" is exactly why we have such "wars". No war has ever had a side that rationalized itself as the villian.
(1) The terminally online will always be outraged about something.
(2) You have a finite amount of time on earth and then you’re dead.
So each scene must have at least 1 Asian, 1 African American, 1 Non-Binary and so on. This takes priority over story building, acting and all else and thus majority of these movies turn out to be a flop.
Additionally, it weaponizes the right (i.e conservatives) to mock the left and in turn people on left (i.e liberals) so we end up with with both sides calling each other nazis, extremists, wokes,.. all of this is amplified by social media.
It is both comical and sad and the same time.
Movies are likely shrinking since their revenue was theaters and movie sales, and we all are moving to subscription which priorities TV series and short form videos on TikTox.
Scott G was guffawing at the Oscar kerfuffle because movies dont matter anymore and it’s a shrinking industry. To some degree he may be right.
So independent of AI, movies are in for a rough ride. Which makes me sad, I love the arc of a movie in an engrossing 2-3 hr chunk, and usually much more interesting cinematography and better production value over tv. But I also like manual transmissions and writing letters, so I accept I’m a dinosaur on many fronts.
They’re not “woke” at all. They’re all incredibly conservative and Christian. They’re just made for a black audience, which has clearly made Tyler Perry very, very rich.