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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com

When a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt, what does Hollywood still represent? www.latimes.com/entertainme...

aug 7, 2025, 7:35 pm • 24 5

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com

If stories can be personalized, rendered on demand or co-written with a crowd, who owns them? Who gets paid? Who decides what matters and what disappears into the churn? www.latimes.com/entertainme...

aug 7, 2025, 7:35 pm • 3 0 • view
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Robby @robbysimpson.bsky.social

the copyright holders whose work was plagiarized to train those models, that's who rightfully owns it

aug 8, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 0 • view
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Hooting Zoo Ape @piss.coach

if i can shit on the street, of what need is there for a toilet?

aug 7, 2025, 8:58 pm • 22 6 • view
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Chilled Monkey Brians 🐒 @halfmoth.bsky.social

If “art” can be generated by AI trained on plagiarized works from real creatives, who owns it? Who gets paid?

aug 7, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.social

I've consulted through Script Reader Pro (and privately) on about 650-700 screenplays by emerging new writers since 2017. Out of those, there's about 14 I feel have legs, and about 6 I'd stick my neck out for. Those numbers. That's your answer. www.scriptreaderpro.com/our-script-c...

aug 10, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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All Cattes Are Best Cattes @picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social

Why should anyone read anything you shit out

aug 7, 2025, 9:14 pm • 5 0 • view
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All Cattes Are Best Cattes @picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social

Hey assholes, answer me. Why should we read your AI shit?

aug 7, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Anna Katherine Colomb @annakatherinec.bsky.social

Guess you guys have never heard of hitrecord.org ?!? Also have some sense of self worthiness creatives. Only YOU can make the art you make.

aug 8, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Mech Pilot Labor Union 🍉 @tllgy.bsky.social

Hey LA times writer, maybe extrapolate that one from Hollywood to some other writing professions, like oh idunno news media

aug 7, 2025, 9:25 pm • 8 0 • view
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Jacob @raoulduke1976.bsky.social

What if they’re absolute shit and it’s only rubes engaging with it?

aug 8, 2025, 11:42 am • 0 0 • view
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social

It doesn't matter because they can't

aug 7, 2025, 10:06 pm • 5 0 • view
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yinlock.bsky.social @yinlock.bsky.social

they can't though

aug 8, 2025, 2:41 am • 1 0 • view
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Terrence Nowicki, Jr. @deephurting.bsky.social

They can't. Also, fuck you.

aug 7, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com

And if narrative itself becomes infinite, remixable and disposable, does the idea of a story still hold any meaning at all? www.latimes.com/entertainme...

aug 7, 2025, 7:35 pm • 4 0 • view
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. @jdpmsp.bsky.social

did you take 1d4 psychic damage writing this credulous multi post lede cuz I definitely did reading it

aug 8, 2025, 2:12 am • 6 0 • view
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Logan Rees @jlrees.bsky.social

if peepee becomes poopoo does the latimes still hold any meaning at all?

aug 7, 2025, 8:31 pm • 57 0 • view
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zanegray24.bsky.social @zanegray24.bsky.social

Yea, ok. so about those Epstein files? Any reporters looking into a certain “suicide”

aug 7, 2025, 7:44 pm • 181 2 • view
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zanegray24.bsky.social @zanegray24.bsky.social

If you ask a guilty person about something often enough, they will trip, and trump can’t stop himself from talking, use that against him! Keep asking/reposting Where are the Epstein files?

aug 8, 2025, 12:03 am • 15 0 • view
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most people call me...jim @jdandeneau.bsky.social

@thelouvreof.bsky.social I got a screenshot if you need it

aug 10, 2025, 4:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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Stork @eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social

LAT getting on the hate-click chumtrain. #epstein

aug 7, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 1 • view
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mere mortal @mere--mortal.bsky.social

Are you high right now, in a freshman dormitory?

aug 8, 2025, 4:57 pm • 5 0 • view
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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social

Computer, make me a movie where journalists report on things that are real.

aug 8, 2025, 12:48 am • 20 0 • view
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actnbstrd @actnbstrd.bsky.social

NARRATIVE WAS ALREADY INFINITE, REMI- OH MY GOD THIS GAVE ME AN ULCER

aug 7, 2025, 9:50 pm • 4 0 • view
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Yes That Eleri @eleritmlh.bsky.social

Given the amount of BS in this article, I suspect it was AI generated.

aug 10, 2025, 7:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com

Yes. How are you this fucking stupid? An infinite expanse of gray goo is a superfund site, not a super fun night.

aug 7, 2025, 9:00 pm • 9 0 • view
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lindsay @hyperglavin.bsky.social

yeah

aug 7, 2025, 11:10 pm • 3 0 • view
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Terrence Nowicki, Jr. @deephurting.bsky.social

Fuck you.

aug 7, 2025, 11:26 pm • 3 0 • view
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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social

Coming from the hometown paper, this is unconscionable.

aug 7, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social

The movies still have to be good.

aug 7, 2025, 8:47 pm • 17 0 • view
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Critical Nostalgia @highway62.bsky.social

Oh, now you're just doing NYT Pitchbot stuff. That's sad.

aug 7, 2025, 9:59 pm • 41 0 • view
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RandomCat @jcrandomcat.bsky.social

...jesus fucking christ. your writers been beaten over the head with bricks?

aug 7, 2025, 11:06 pm • 3 0 • view
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pineraven.bsky.social @pineraven.bsky.social

Turn off the tv or monitor, set down your phone, or shut off the electricity and then tell a story. AI needs power to exist; humans don’t.

aug 7, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Kylie Ren 🏳️‍⚧️💕 @kyliethebard.bsky.social

nobody is going to watch shitty ai movies after the novelty wears off (about 20 minutes at most), so this question doesn't even need to be answered.

aug 8, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social

Hopefully the person watching, because nobody would do that for free

aug 7, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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keek @keekerdc.com

who fuckin cares

aug 7, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blue Eyes White Macron @antitractionist.bsky.social

why do you need food when I can shit in your mouth

aug 7, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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woob @woob.zone

Next time someone says there's no such thing as a stupid question, I'll point them to this article.

aug 7, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ferengi Liaison to Project Cybersyn @sovietcola.bsky.social

"Why meet someone and have sex with them when you can masturbate all over yourself?" That's you, that's what you fucking sound like

aug 8, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Faithless Grace @faithlessgrace.bsky.social

Fuck you and your Trump sucking owner

aug 7, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Copy that @goforproduction.bsky.social

But they can’t do this. Why pretend like they can?

aug 8, 2025, 12:31 am • 9 0 • view
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Great Ape @ape.institute

oh interesting where has that happened

aug 7, 2025, 8:41 pm • 86 0 • view
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a human, like you @dying-robot.bsky.social

good news is AI can’t do that

aug 7, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view
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DiscordianStooge @discordianstooge.bsky.social

I don't know, maybe a minimum level of quality? Shouldn't AI movies be making billions by now?

aug 10, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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JS604 🥧 @js604.bsky.social

Can AI write scripts that aren't total garbage? If so, why are they hiding these brilliant works?

aug 7, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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JLaw, not Trisolaran @thesamedevice.bsky.social

the ability to actually fucking write movies hope this helps

aug 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 3 0 • view
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Former bulletin board power user @thatguywasfly.bsky.social

I know what your paper represents... it's piss!

aug 7, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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Michael vs. 2025 @thepmann.bsky.social

Actual human creativity?

aug 7, 2025, 8:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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Lotus Prince @lotusprince.bsky.social

It represents making something other than glitchy slop

aug 7, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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future Smile entity victim @rifka.bsky.social

there’s this thing my species calls art

aug 7, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Travis Klempan @travisklempan.bsky.social

Hollywood makes some shitty movies but AI only makes shitty movies. There.

aug 7, 2025, 9:45 pm • 3 0 • view
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Amphibious Cat @amphibiouscat.bsky.social

OMG shut the hell up dork

aug 7, 2025, 8:36 pm • 4 0 • view
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Josh Lowe @joshlowe.bsky.social

Pee pee poo poo

aug 7, 2025, 11:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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xarph @xar.ph

I'm 90% sure @scalzi.com had a post on whatever that itemizes in excruciating detail what his publishers actually do, and the stakes are even higher for movies and TV.

aug 7, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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blakestacey.bsky.social @blakestacey.bsky.social

Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/19/g...

aug 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 18 1 • view
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The Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass King @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social

It can't.

aug 7, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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lostpictureshow @lostpictureshow.bsky.social

This some dumb shit from the LA Times.

aug 8, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Music Geekery @musicgeekery.bsky.social

By your own logic your brand of journalism is rendered utterly redundant. Oh wait, it already was!

aug 8, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Kate @katet77.bsky.social

Last decade it was 'If everyone has a great camera on their phone, then anyone can make movies and Hollywood will soon be dead'. I won't hold my breath.

aug 8, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Virus in a lullaby @axleblaze.bsky.social

if you think chatgpt can write and create an actual good film, what's the point of you? Your job should be simple for it compared to making a movie

aug 7, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Virus in a lullaby @axleblaze.bsky.social

Hey Hey You're really really REALLY dumb

aug 7, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Virus in a lullaby @axleblaze.bsky.social

You know what would be really cool? Writing an article on indie filmmakers that really do prove this really is a time when almost anyone can make a real movie if they really want and in turn help struggling filmmakers rather than writing this abdolute dreck

aug 7, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Cowboy? No, Cowman. @raulpudd.bsky.social

When a major newspaper decides to shamelessly promote a bad Silicon Valley product, is that paper even worth lining a bird cage with?

aug 7, 2025, 11:18 pm • 4 0 • view
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Franky Pelvis @frankypelvis.bsky.social

A single person with a prompt can’t generate a film that ANYONE WILL ACTUALLY WATCH

aug 7, 2025, 10:02 pm • 4 0 • view
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Robby @robbysimpson.bsky.social

yeah man, why bother going to a restaurant when my dog can shit on a plate for free

aug 8, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Don Bones @donbones.bsky.social

Oh come on

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NightTrace @nighttrace.org

Editors Note: They can't

aug 8, 2025, 12:31 am • 4 0 • view
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drchuddmd.bsky.social @drchuddmd.bsky.social

When a single person anywhere in the world can launch a plastic soldier with a skyrocket, what does NASA still represent?

aug 8, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Uncle Grave Craver @gravecraver.bsky.social

Shut da fuck up

aug 8, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
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Eric @dnpeeps.bsky.social

If anyone can write an article what 8s the point of the LA Times?

aug 7, 2025, 8:44 pm • 153 1 • view
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brightshadow (pierogi lawyer) @cuil.world

I can generate a thousand articles using chatgpt in the time it took whoever is in the byline of this one to write one very stupid article Therefore I am replacing the entire la times with just me typing some bullshit into a chatbot and publishing it to an rss feed please give me $10 a month

aug 7, 2025, 9:26 pm • 24 0 • view
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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social

If anyone can write an article could one of them please help out the LA Times?

aug 8, 2025, 1:42 am • 40 0 • view
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @mcmjolnir.bsky.social

look at that ratio! Hollywood's hometown paper just crapping on all the people who make movies

aug 7, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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sonofhades57.bsky.social @sonofhades57.bsky.social

Actual creativity, dumbass.

aug 8, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social

When a single person anywhere in the world can hammer a nail into a board, what does architecture still represent?

aug 7, 2025, 8:19 pm • 408 2 • view
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Ty @ty-imho.bsky.social

right but they can’t. they can’t do that

aug 8, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Armel h @armelh.bsky.social

But, "generating video content with AI" is not "making a film". at all. On the other hand, aren't CEO based in Hollywood the ones who are pushing for use of AI and firing people ? *THAT* makes them irrelevant. not the AI guy who asks for nude deep-fakes or bad plagiarism "in Ghibli style".

aug 7, 2025, 9:21 pm • 6 0 • view
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Mogambo @allhailmogambo.bsky.social

faaaaaart

aug 7, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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brightshadow (pierogi lawyer) @cuil.world

This is stupid and deep down you know it and feel bad about pretending it’s not

aug 7, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Doogie2K 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇦 @doogie2k.bsky.social

okay but they can't you know that right? you're doing PR for liars and thieves

aug 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bluemax @bluemax.bsky.social

This is so fucking stupid, you should delete the post, the article and then go read a book you absolute dork.

aug 8, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Este Güuey @iseenuttnbut.bsky.social

??

aug 8, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Breddy Tidgewater @intelsebastian.bsky.social

“When”

aug 7, 2025, 8:53 pm • 6 0 • view
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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social

A Memri TV still where Egyptian TV Host Tamer Amin is saying
aug 7, 2025, 9:37 pm • 78 0 • view
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Cris Ódio do Bem 🇵🇸 Ⓐ🏴 @crisodiodobem.bsky.social

Why is the news suddenly talking nonstop about the promises of a bag full of air!? Since when is journalism about hyping stocks?

aug 10, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dayton’ @monsieurdayton.bsky.social

Hahahahahahahaha

aug 7, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stork @eightxeroxedbutts.bsky.social

Anyone *can't* make a movie.

aug 7, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social

I ran this through the LA Time AI bias detector your billionaire fascist owner makes you use and it says you all eat your own shit with a big spoon and pretend it's soup. That's wild.

aug 7, 2025, 9:54 pm • 94 2 • view
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Eggs and Dice @eggs-and-dice.bsky.social

28 Years Later was shot on an iPhone. Anyone anywhere could already make a movie without AI. Doesn’t mean they have the ability to make one that isn’t a steaming pile of shit that no one wants to watch.

aug 7, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Watcher at the Gate @watcheratthegate.bsky.social

LA times loves them some AI slop

aug 7, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kipzy @kipzy.bsky.social

well, so fuck the LA Times then

aug 7, 2025, 8:37 pm • 7 0 • view
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Daphné (she/her) 😷 @daphne36.bsky.social

Quality > slop.

aug 7, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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MntlWard @mntlward.bsky.social

Did chatgpt write this?

aug 9, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Athlete's Foot Demon @rwoodsmall.bsky.social

sometimes happening to make shit that doesn't suck? occasionally recognizing the value of the varied specialist labor responsible for putting a movie together? hope this helps. you should stop publishing trash like this, or, I guess, publishing anything at all. jagoffs

aug 7, 2025, 9:16 pm • 11 0 • view
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Bum Farto aka bean boy @bumfarto.bsky.social

May we see one of these gen AI movies? Would be very interested to see how it stacks up to a hollywood production!

aug 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 4 0 • view
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social

I know you guys are broken as a paper. But this is one of the of dumbest things I think I’ve ever seen. What the f is wrong with you.

aug 8, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kit Wren @kitwrenaway.bsky.social

hey look, my thumb's coming off. how am i doing that.

aug 7, 2025, 11:16 pm • 16 0 • view
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PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social

AI got my nose!

aug 7, 2025, 11:51 pm • 7 0 • view
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defundthepolice.bsky.social @defundthepolice.bsky.social

lol at this ratio

aug 9, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mr W. Anderson @mr-wanderson42.bsky.social

FAIL💩

aug 8, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
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G̟͇̺r̙̞̪o͙̘g͓͓̺ D͔͙̼a̢̼̺ E̡̟̟m͙̠͜i͔͎̙g̟͖̼n̞͙̺a͓͇͚t̻͖̪i̡̼͜c̡̦̦ @emigno.bsky.social

Imagine believing that AI plagiarism generators are able to make art.

pete !! @peterokii • Mar 28 oh poor baby فة do you need the robot to make you pictures? yeah? do you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? éà éà you're a moron?? do
aug 7, 2025, 9:44 pm • 3 0 • view
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TailsFiraga @tailsfiraga.bsky.social

If any child in the world can play Tee-ball, what purpose is there for the MLB?

aug 7, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social

My kid and her friend made a 'movie' on her phone. Yet somehow the industry survives.

aug 8, 2025, 12:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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Sick! Trees! @sicktrees.bsky.social

Why eat a delicious home-made meal when I can just chug this flavourless nutrient paste?

aug 8, 2025, 2:03 pm • 4 0 • view
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KWierso @kwierso.com

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KWierso @kwierso.com

Your paper is barely worth use as kindling at this point.

aug 8, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Nu-Metal Enjoyer @jmbrad.bsky.social

It means tech losers have too much time on their hands and they should get a real job

aug 7, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lobo Caipira @leopazz.bsky.social

nobody wants to watch the shit that comes out of a.i. and you fuckers know it, stop publishing press releases disguised as essays

aug 7, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Doug @mynameisstilldoug.bsky.social

does the future you short-sighted AI dipshits envision include plans for when your "prompt films" inevitably degrade media literacy and attention span to the point where they themselves get replaced by 24 hour live feeds of nutshot compilations?

aug 8, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social

when a single person can sing the song that unmakes the world, what does national defense still represent?

aug 9, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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JulieBuellie @buellie1208.bsky.social

When a single person anywhere in the world can grow a pot of limp basil, what do we gain from farmers?

aug 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social

If you have a full septic tank and cut the top half off, do you then have a swimming pool?

aug 7, 2025, 11:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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🎃No Comrades Left Alive🎃 @spiralrings.blue

We can generate shit articles too, not that I know why we need them

aug 10, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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nailsthatglow 🏳️‍⚧️🦇🖖 @nailsthatglow.com

You need to stop thinking you are a journalist.

aug 10, 2025, 4:42 pm • 4 0 • view
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Mr Stephen Pike @mrstephenpike.bsky.social

Shut up

aug 7, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social

Because AI sucks. And distribution, emotionally intelligent writing, star power, and marketing matter. Dipshit.

aug 10, 2025, 5:05 pm • 4 0 • view
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xantar.bsky.social @xantar.bsky.social

They could do it without a prompt too so I don't know what you're asking

aug 7, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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taconic @ ashamed of words and deeds @taconic.bsky.social

oh my god shut up imagine getting a journalism degree and doing this with it aren't you embarrassed

aug 7, 2025, 8:57 pm • 5 0 • view
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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social

Insane ratio here lol

aug 7, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brian Morans @whpshw.bsky.social

I don't doubt we're headed towards that future because the vast majority of ppl are fucking morons who would eat shit if it didn't require them to think too hard on it. But there will be enough ppl who are aware enough to opt-out and keep human civilization limping along.

aug 8, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Truther_Dare @truther-dare.bsky.social

Video thumbnail
aug 7, 2025, 10:24 pm • 2 0 • view
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SpaceButler @spacebutler.bsky.social

If you actually believed this, as a journalist you would be seriously considering taking your own life imagining what this means for you.

aug 8, 2025, 3:19 am • 3 0 • view
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CessPoolBoy @cesspoolboy.bsky.social

learn an instrument.

aug 7, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dave Grier @davegrier.bsky.social

yours is literally the only job that can be replaced with a chatbot

aug 7, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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Assignment Understander @90sslowjamz.bsky.social

Fuck you, eat shit, etc

aug 8, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Zee McZed @zeemczed.bsky.social

The only way I can say "fuck you" hard enough to this is with a fleet of dump trucks full of hog manure to pour over your parking lot. 24 of `em, minimum. Good. Fucking. God. The path to enlightenment is closed to you, and you will never see the gates of paradise.

aug 8, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Esser-Z @esser-z.bsky.social

Good news! They can't do that

aug 8, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Martin Pánek @mmister.com

Lol. Imagine putting something so dumb in a newspaper.

aug 7, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
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Lord of Humours @blackgrailenjoyer.bsky.social

People pay to read this slop?

aug 8, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Paul Jay @pauljay.bsky.social

“If” is doing Superman-holding-up-the-earth amounts of work in this headline you guys

aug 7, 2025, 9:21 pm • 5 0 • view
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Paul Jay @pauljay.bsky.social

AI booster bullshit: a spoonful weighs a ton

aug 8, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
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Forde @fordesponja.bsky.social

If I can write an opinion on a napkin, why is this article necessary?

aug 8, 2025, 5:10 am • 4 0 • view
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Dandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social

If I can read some stupid bullshit written by dumbasses anywhere for free online, why would I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times???

aug 7, 2025, 8:52 pm • 10 0 • view
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Original Cat Dude @jon639.bsky.social

If a nyone can generate a CEO whats the point of golden parachutes and millions dollar salaries?

aug 7, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bobby Peru (like the country) @st3ambot.bsky.social

Soulless clanker slop

aug 7, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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synthmage @synthmage.cloud

"When" indeed. Certainly not now.

aug 8, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Augh @augh3d.bsky.social

so whens that then

aug 8, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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listen just right @listenjustright.bsky.social

Yeah but are they, like, good

aug 7, 2025, 8:28 pm • 13 0 • view
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Komm, Süßer Todd @klookloo.bsky.social

This isn't true you fucking idiots

aug 8, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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A Hundred George Michaels You Can Teach To Drive @milpool.bsky.social

AI grifting has the most absurd hype cycle in history and that’s saying a lot

aug 7, 2025, 9:19 pm • 7 0 • view
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social

Nobody can make a film with a prompt. They maybe can spit out a terrible, shitty looking, incoherent video image but it will not be entertaining or engaging or worth jack shit.

aug 8, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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Bryy Miller @bryymiller.bsky.social

Because that is not actually possible?

aug 7, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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the gay gamer @thegaygamer.bsky.social

Who on earth wants to watch a film some loser generated with an AI prompt?

aug 7, 2025, 8:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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the gay gamer @thegaygamer.bsky.social

I know journalism's been dead in this country for a good while now, but you can still do better than this.

aug 7, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Been dustin deez nutz @dusty1.bsky.social

When the human body can produce shit naturally, what is the point of America’s tech sector?

aug 7, 2025, 8:56 pm • 58 2 • view
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Hon. PW Dawkins (sic). Cᴇʟᴇʙʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ 300,000+ Yᴇᴀʀs Oꜰ Iɴʜᴜᴍᴀɴɪᴛʏ™ @paulwdawkins.bsky.social

You're out of a job *way* earlier than filmmakers, I assure you. It's amazing how far along/what you think "AI" is (& what it takes to make an actual movie) vs where things are. Sam Altman & co are selling a false bill of goods. What LLMs *can* do is generate these clickbait stories easily enough.

aug 8, 2025, 9:32 am • 4 0 • view
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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social

I mean, I'd watch 100 cookie cutter marvel movies before I watched a single second of a fully AI generated "movie"

aug 7, 2025, 11:09 pm • 6 0 • view
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Mr. Skeets @doctoraculamd.bsky.social

When a single person anywhere in the world can live in someone else’s corpse, what do homebuilders still represent?

aug 7, 2025, 8:28 pm • 60 0 • view
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TylerOnTheInternet @tylerontheinternet.bsky.social

Me at my last Zillow

aug 8, 2025, 1:43 am • 4 0 • view
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Scott MayB Bayin' at the Moon @scottmaybstoned.bsky.social

This is a ridiculous take and you are ridiculous.

aug 7, 2025, 8:38 pm • 10 0 • view
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Marla @bigironmarla.bsky.social

What the fuck? Come on. No one can do that, no one ever will, and even if GenAI gets really -really- good, it'll still require hundreds of thousands of hours of -actual handmade shit- to train on. Why are you giving this so much credence? Call these thieves and charlatans what they are.

aug 8, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
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Alan B @alanpbourke.bsky.social

Except they can't, they can generate a load of crap from a prompt.

aug 8, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social

Would the moron who wrote this piece give me the one sentence prompts to create - including dialogue, visuals, cinematography, actor choice from scratch: Taxi Driver Apocalypse Now Blade Runner Fight Club Hana-Bi Die Hard Naked Gun Ran La Haine Alien Star Wars Ronin Goodfella Chungking Express

aug 7, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social

Oh and soundtrack From scratch. Assuming these groundbreaking films had never existed.

aug 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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adamrandonumber.bsky.social @adamrandonumber.bsky.social

things that are good probably?

aug 8, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Franiac @franiac.bsky.social

Did AI write this sloppy shit?

aug 7, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social

You know what? Get back to us in thirty years when that happens.

aug 8, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jim Business @lsrgk.bsky.social

When a single person anywhere in the world can take a shit in the street, what do toilets still represent?

aug 7, 2025, 11:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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Sean @stholeary.bsky.social

AI sucks. No one wants to see an AI movie. Ever.

aug 8, 2025, 12:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Felicia: Mother, Maid and Shoggoth @shoggothmom.bsky.social

Are the movies in the room with us

aug 10, 2025, 7:35 pm • 4 0 • view
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Indie Film News @indiefilmnews.bsky.social

false info. movies cannot be made from a prompt.

aug 11, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Indie Film News @indiefilmnews.bsky.social

2 - not any live action movies, features, that can compete well creatively with ones done in the regular/old timey style of filmmaking with human talent.

aug 11, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt Dameron @senseileroof.bsky.social

Here's a concept for ya: QUALITY

aug 8, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
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All Cattes Are Best Cattes @picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social

Apart from being fucking morons what are your hobbies

aug 9, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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All Cattes Are Best Cattes @picklesofthecanoe.bsky.social

Which sack of shit AI did you use to diarrhea cannon out this maggot-riddled blivet of guardia-sewage?

aug 7, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bobo 🇲🇽🤝🇨🇦 @boboispost.ing

When a newspaper can be used to potty train my puppy, what does the LA Times still represent?

aug 10, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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jack @roddyceramics.bsky.social

this is a moronic statement

aug 7, 2025, 8:29 pm • 11 0 • view
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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social

Interesting how you changed the load-bearing “if” in the headline for this skeet. Either way, neither statement is true.

aug 7, 2025, 10:46 pm • 7 0 • view
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Tay @kauantai.bsky.social

You're going to love it here

aug 7, 2025, 10:02 pm • 4 1 • view
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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social

if i could shit nuclear warheads and breathe sarin gas, what does the Pentagon still represent?

aug 7, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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ElectricDEAD, Pt. 1 (The Agony) @electrichead.bsky.social

Josh ROTTENberg is correct.

aug 10, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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godhatesyeast @godhatesyeast.bsky.social

image
aug 7, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social

it represents a shared reality that we’re all living and creating in together rather than a bunch of individuals having hyper individualized slop that takes an extreme amount of energy to produced.

aug 10, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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ricky cilantro @rickycilantro.bsky.social

how hard did you get kicked in this head?

aug 7, 2025, 10:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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gubbbo.bsky.social @gubbbo.bsky.social

Why would you write such a stupid lie

aug 7, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Pete Rhomberg @prhomberg.bsky.social

"If anyone can take a picture with their phone, what does painting and professional photography represent?"

aug 7, 2025, 9:33 pm • 2 0 • view
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It’s BlumanVT @blumanvt.bsky.social

So many shitty screenplays turned into glitchy cgi clips while using all of the electricity and sucking up all the water Not worried that this is going to become a cultural juggernaut. More worried that Zaslav is going to fire everyone to try it out

aug 8, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Jombo @winderwinder.bsky.social

Can they tho

aug 8, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social

Come on now, you can't be this gullible

aug 7, 2025, 10:15 pm • 2 0 • view
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Roler42 @roler42.bsky.social

Why would I want to watch media from someone who didn't even want to bother making themselves?

aug 7, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Cunning Potato @hunsweasel.bsky.social

Well, Hollywood still represents an industry where real films that humans want to watch get made. Rather than slop that assholes can circle jerk each other over. Hope this helps!

aug 7, 2025, 9:28 pm • 28 0 • view
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FUPA Troopa @gammera2k.bsky.social

Which is saying a lot given how much dogshit Hollywood already pumps out.

aug 8, 2025, 12:57 am • 5 0 • view
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The Cunning Potato @hunsweasel.bsky.social

Oh totally, but the worst film made by humans is always gonna beat the best slop regurgitated from prompts.

aug 8, 2025, 12:24 pm • 10 0 • view
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Roxx Ram @roxxram.bsky.social

If anyone in the world could simply travel by foot or wheelchair, do we even need cars?

aug 8, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt (Communes with the night) @hwbrgdtse.bsky.social

Human beings working together to make something that isn't garbage?

aug 7, 2025, 9:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lozzy @jravee.bsky.social

"can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

aug 7, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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FUPA Troopa @gammera2k.bsky.social

Nothing? Because AI movies aren't even on the same level as kids in their backyard using their phones & iMovie.

aug 8, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Ceci N'est Pas Un G A McKnight @gamcknight.bsky.social

Can I buy some pot from you?

aug 10, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Vaiden Kelsier @vaiden.bsky.social

Look, the second one of these models can create a movie that actually has an emotionally resonant chord, engaging characters, a coherent theme, sure, maybe I'll believe you. But I don't see that shit happening ever, because the things I described require the craft of real humans

aug 8, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Vaiden Kelsier @vaiden.bsky.social

In short, stop fucking trying to replace humans. Yes, making shit is fucking hard.

aug 8, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Beowulf (live on stage) 🏳️‍🌈 @bigbadbibear.bsky.social

When a single person anywhere in the world can generate code from a prompt, what does Silicon Valley still represent?

aug 7, 2025, 8:44 pm • 5 0 • view
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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social

AI slop is not a “movie” no matter how hard the techbros try pushing the climate-destroying plagiarism engine on the rest of us. Shame on @latimes.com for being the unpaid marketing department for a bunch of degenerate scam artists.

aug 7, 2025, 10:12 pm • 3 0 • view
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Dustbin Film @dustbinfilm.bsky.social

are you fucking serious

aug 8, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Will Cockrell @willcockrell.bsky.social

"a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt" This is not in any way a factually accurate statement.

aug 10, 2025, 5:14 pm • 4 0 • view
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Josh More @joshmore.bsky.social

It represents people who are actually good at making things, not absolute morons with the thinking capacity of a soggy dorito

aug 7, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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ohgodwhatdoiput.bsky.social @ohgodwhatdoiput.bsky.social

Josh this is a whole lot of words just to say "I am an easily swayed idiot"

aug 8, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Tennyson E. Stead @tennysonestead.bsky.social

AI is writing articles, too! I've seen six incendiary pieces of AI-generated clickbait, just this morning... Who needs journalists? Any thoughts on that, @latimes.com?

aug 7, 2025, 8:42 pm • 28 0 • view
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Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social

What a disgusting perspective on art. (Based on the headline)

aug 8, 2025, 3:20 am • 2 0 • view
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Lateralusian @lateralusian.bsky.social

Fuck AI and fuck you

aug 7, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Applewhite Sleepover 🛌 ☄️ @final-exit.bsky.social

youtu.be/Y7pz7CqWTMs?...

aug 7, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Megas88 @megas88.bsky.social

If we have access to just the facts reporting that cite their sources without clickbait or owned by very eatable rich assholes, why do we need corporate media? Oh wait…….. that’s how….. wow, this is embarrassing!

aug 8, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
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μ🔆🇵🇸 @6ft4inunder.bsky.social

Noone has and noone will ever want to watch a mush of genAI paraded as a movie.

aug 7, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS @kiswanson.medsky.social

Making AI slop is very very different than making a movie that anyone wants to watch. Stop being such gullible chuds

aug 8, 2025, 1:41 am • 5 0 • view
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Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social

it's cool how a pro-Trump billionaire doctor bought the LATimes and we've watched it's decline into an abyss of shit over the past few years great job, you should feel good about yourself

aug 7, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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Valid question, mom @aldagrim.bsky.social

actual creativity that probably doesn't destroy the environment

aug 8, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃 @sporkboot.bsky.social

Lol fuck off with AI slop

aug 8, 2025, 2:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dylan Archbold 🇵🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dylanarchbold.bsky.social

aug 8, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Anthony, Bringer of Rage @lalonip81.bsky.social

LA Times shilling for crooks and paedophiles.

aug 10, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Doordash Rendar @cambrianera.radical.town

okay but they can't

aug 7, 2025, 10:06 pm • 18 0 • view
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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social

It would be cool to have a single national newspaper that wasn't part of some billionaire's fetish for misinformation.

aug 10, 2025, 4:19 pm • 16 0 • view
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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com

Christ, you're fucking stupid. "Boy, I sure do want to produce a film from a single sentence where every frame is the most likely frame to follow the frame that just happened based on large inference libraries! I can't wait to watch the blandest shit on planet earth!" said no one ever!

aug 7, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social

There have been thousands of AI movie trailers generated in the last year, and yet not a single halfway decent AI movie Why do you think that is? Is there anybody at the LA Times who isn't a naive gullible idiot?

aug 7, 2025, 10:05 pm • 25 0 • view
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Seth Christenfeld was thoroughly irritated by everything @sethdoesthings.com

not one of the trailers was halfway decent, either.

aug 8, 2025, 12:24 am • 3 0 • view
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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social

Dawg have you considered that the film from a prompt sucks?

aug 7, 2025, 9:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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Neil Bollen-Castle @neilcastle.bsky.social

Are the infinite AI movies in the room with you, you fucking hack?

aug 10, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
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algi @algi.bsky.social

Anyone with a phone camera can make their own movie. Blender is for free. There has been no technical limitations for making a movie for a long time now.

aug 7, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Abi @gubcat.xyz

I don't think you guys need meaningful interaction so I'll say: 🐾🔥🐾📸🤨🤨📸™️🤔™️🤔🐈‍⬛🤔😣🤕😴🥸🤑🤓🤓🥸😪👺😵‍💫😩🤧😫🤒😫🤕🌟💦💯💫🎉🕳️💯🕳️🎉🦠🦿🦾🦷🦷👁️🦷🦿🫆

aug 8, 2025, 1:23 am • 2 0 • view
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chrys scott @chrysscott.bsky.social

Get a grip

aug 7, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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mediajolt.bsky.social @mediajolt.bsky.social

Access to money and distribution. That’s all it’s good for now.

aug 7, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🍉 @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social

Did an AI write this article?

aug 8, 2025, 12:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jeffrey @standuphookup1.bsky.social

If pee is stored in the balls, what does the bladder still represent?

aug 7, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view
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large luddite mobs @walterbrando.bsky.social

aug 7, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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I mine salt @minerosalt.bsky.social

When anyone can put a slice of cheese between two bits of bread, what do restaurants still represent? I can rent a tennis court for an hour, why bother even having Wimbledon? I can read a TV guide, what's the point of Josh Rottenberg writing peurile shit like this?

aug 8, 2025, 12:05 am • 9 0 • view
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Judge Judy and Executioner @judgyjudes.bsky.social

Taste. Vision. Talent.

aug 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tube Amps for Justice @curiousaudio.us

that's not a real thing but this is the quality of journalism we should expect from a crappy dipshit billionaire-owned newspaper

aug 7, 2025, 10:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Uh oh, it's Siobhan 🏳️‍⚧️ @keyboardbrawl.bsky.social

What do newspapers represent when I can enter a prompt and make my own news just for me? Grow a fucking backbone. Stand up for the arts and humanities.

aug 11, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Uh oh, it's Siobhan 🏳️‍⚧️ @keyboardbrawl.bsky.social

It represents human effort, art, and the fundamental communal element of seeing art together and being able to discuss it. Using the plagiarism machine to generate slop that's only for me doesn't add anything to the world or the tradition of film.

aug 11, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Libbie Grant @thelibbiegrant.bsky.social

Is it a good film, though? Lmao

aug 8, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Gus Constantine @gusconstantine.bsky.social

You can generate trash with a prompt, not a film. The fuck are you on about?

aug 8, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view