When a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt, what does Hollywood still represent? www.latimes.com/entertainme...
When a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt, what does Hollywood still represent? www.latimes.com/entertainme...
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...
the copyright holders whose work was plagiarized to train those models, that's who rightfully owns it
if i can shit on the street, of what need is there for a toilet?
If “art” can be generated by AI trained on plagiarized works from real creatives, who owns it? Who gets paid?
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...
Why should anyone read anything you shit out
Hey assholes, answer me. Why should we read your AI shit?
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.
Hey LA times writer, maybe extrapolate that one from Hollywood to some other writing professions, like oh idunno news media
What if they’re absolute shit and it’s only rubes engaging with it?
It doesn't matter because they can't
they can't though
They can't. Also, fuck you.
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...
did you take 1d4 psychic damage writing this credulous multi post lede cuz I definitely did reading it
if peepee becomes poopoo does the latimes still hold any meaning at all?
Yea, ok. so about those Epstein files? Any reporters looking into a certain “suicide”
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?
@thelouvreof.bsky.social I got a screenshot if you need it
LAT getting on the hate-click chumtrain. #epstein
Are you high right now, in a freshman dormitory?
Computer, make me a movie where journalists report on things that are real.
NARRATIVE WAS ALREADY INFINITE, REMI- OH MY GOD THIS GAVE ME AN ULCER
Given the amount of BS in this article, I suspect it was AI generated.
Yes. How are you this fucking stupid? An infinite expanse of gray goo is a superfund site, not a super fun night.
yeah
Fuck you.
Coming from the hometown paper, this is unconscionable.
The movies still have to be good.
Oh, now you're just doing NYT Pitchbot stuff. That's sad.
...jesus fucking christ. your writers been beaten over the head with bricks?
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.
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.
Hopefully the person watching, because nobody would do that for free
who fuckin cares
why do you need food when I can shit in your mouth
Next time someone says there's no such thing as a stupid question, I'll point them to this article.
"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
Fuck you and your Trump sucking owner
But they can’t do this. Why pretend like they can?
oh interesting where has that happened
good news is AI can’t do that
I don't know, maybe a minimum level of quality? Shouldn't AI movies be making billions by now?
Can AI write scripts that aren't total garbage? If so, why are they hiding these brilliant works?
the ability to actually fucking write movies hope this helps
I know what your paper represents... it's piss!
Actual human creativity?
It represents making something other than glitchy slop
there’s this thing my species calls art
Hollywood makes some shitty movies but AI only makes shitty movies. There.
OMG shut the hell up dork
Pee pee poo poo
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.
Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/19/g...
It can't.
This some dumb shit from the LA Times.
By your own logic your brand of journalism is rendered utterly redundant. Oh wait, it already was!
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.
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
Hey Hey You're really really REALLY dumb
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
When a major newspaper decides to shamelessly promote a bad Silicon Valley product, is that paper even worth lining a bird cage with?
A single person with a prompt can’t generate a film that ANYONE WILL ACTUALLY WATCH
yeah man, why bother going to a restaurant when my dog can shit on a plate for free
Oh come on
Editors Note: They can't
When a single person anywhere in the world can launch a plastic soldier with a skyrocket, what does NASA still represent?
Shut da fuck up
If anyone can write an article what 8s the point of the LA Times?
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
If anyone can write an article could one of them please help out the LA Times?
look at that ratio! Hollywood's hometown paper just crapping on all the people who make movies
Actual creativity, dumbass.
When a single person anywhere in the world can hammer a nail into a board, what does architecture still represent?
right but they can’t. they can’t do that
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".
faaaaaart
This is stupid and deep down you know it and feel bad about pretending it’s not
okay but they can't you know that right? you're doing PR for liars and thieves
This is so fucking stupid, you should delete the post, the article and then go read a book you absolute dork.
??
“When”
Why is the news suddenly talking nonstop about the promises of a bag full of air!? Since when is journalism about hyping stocks?
Hahahahahahahaha
Anyone *can't* make a movie.
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.
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.
LA times loves them some AI slop
well, so fuck the LA Times then
Quality > slop.
Did chatgpt write this?
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
May we see one of these gen AI movies? Would be very interested to see how it stacks up to a hollywood production!
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.
hey look, my thumb's coming off. how am i doing that.
AI got my nose!
lol at this ratio
FAIL💩
Imagine believing that AI plagiarism generators are able to make art.
If any child in the world can play Tee-ball, what purpose is there for the MLB?
My kid and her friend made a 'movie' on her phone. Yet somehow the industry survives.
Why eat a delicious home-made meal when I can just chug this flavourless nutrient paste?
Your paper is barely worth use as kindling at this point.
It means tech losers have too much time on their hands and they should get a real job
nobody wants to watch the shit that comes out of a.i. and you fuckers know it, stop publishing press releases disguised as essays
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?
when a single person can sing the song that unmakes the world, what does national defense still represent?
When a single person anywhere in the world can grow a pot of limp basil, what do we gain from farmers?
If you have a full septic tank and cut the top half off, do you then have a swimming pool?
We can generate shit articles too, not that I know why we need them
You need to stop thinking you are a journalist.
Shut up
Because AI sucks. And distribution, emotionally intelligent writing, star power, and marketing matter. Dipshit.
They could do it without a prompt too so I don't know what you're asking
oh my god shut up imagine getting a journalism degree and doing this with it aren't you embarrassed
Insane ratio here lol
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.
If you actually believed this, as a journalist you would be seriously considering taking your own life imagining what this means for you.
learn an instrument.
yours is literally the only job that can be replaced with a chatbot
Fuck you, eat shit, etc
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.
Good news! They can't do that
Lol. Imagine putting something so dumb in a newspaper.
People pay to read this slop?
“If” is doing Superman-holding-up-the-earth amounts of work in this headline you guys
AI booster bullshit: a spoonful weighs a ton
If I can write an opinion on a napkin, why is this article necessary?
If I can read some stupid bullshit written by dumbasses anywhere for free online, why would I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times???
If a nyone can generate a CEO whats the point of golden parachutes and millions dollar salaries?
Soulless clanker slop
"When" indeed. Certainly not now.
so whens that then
Yeah but are they, like, good
This isn't true you fucking idiots
AI grifting has the most absurd hype cycle in history and that’s saying a lot
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.
Because that is not actually possible?
Who on earth wants to watch a film some loser generated with an AI prompt?
I know journalism's been dead in this country for a good while now, but you can still do better than this.
When the human body can produce shit naturally, what is the point of America’s tech sector?
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.
I mean, I'd watch 100 cookie cutter marvel movies before I watched a single second of a fully AI generated "movie"
When a single person anywhere in the world can live in someone else’s corpse, what do homebuilders still represent?
Me at my last Zillow
This is a ridiculous take and you are ridiculous.
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.
Except they can't, they can generate a load of crap from a prompt.
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
Oh and soundtrack From scratch. Assuming these groundbreaking films had never existed.
things that are good probably?
Did AI write this sloppy shit?
You know what? Get back to us in thirty years when that happens.
When a single person anywhere in the world can take a shit in the street, what do toilets still represent?
AI sucks. No one wants to see an AI movie. Ever.
Are the movies in the room with us
false info. movies cannot be made from a prompt.
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.
Here's a concept for ya: QUALITY
Apart from being fucking morons what are your hobbies
Which sack of shit AI did you use to diarrhea cannon out this maggot-riddled blivet of guardia-sewage?
When a newspaper can be used to potty train my puppy, what does the LA Times still represent?
this is a moronic statement
Interesting how you changed the load-bearing “if” in the headline for this skeet. Either way, neither statement is true.
You're going to love it here
if i could shit nuclear warheads and breathe sarin gas, what does the Pentagon still represent?
Josh ROTTENberg is correct.
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.
how hard did you get kicked in this head?
Why would you write such a stupid lie
"If anyone can take a picture with their phone, what does painting and professional photography represent?"
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
Can they tho
Come on now, you can't be this gullible
Why would I want to watch media from someone who didn't even want to bother making themselves?
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!
Which is saying a lot given how much dogshit Hollywood already pumps out.
Oh totally, but the worst film made by humans is always gonna beat the best slop regurgitated from prompts.
If anyone in the world could simply travel by foot or wheelchair, do we even need cars?
Human beings working together to make something that isn't garbage?
"can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
Nothing? Because AI movies aren't even on the same level as kids in their backyard using their phones & iMovie.
Can I buy some pot from you?
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
In short, stop fucking trying to replace humans. Yes, making shit is fucking hard.
When a single person anywhere in the world can generate code from a prompt, what does Silicon Valley still represent?
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.
are you fucking serious
"a single person anywhere in the world can generate a film from a prompt" This is not in any way a factually accurate statement.
It represents people who are actually good at making things, not absolute morons with the thinking capacity of a soggy dorito
Josh this is a whole lot of words just to say "I am an easily swayed idiot"
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?
What a disgusting perspective on art. (Based on the headline)
Fuck AI and fuck you
youtu.be/Y7pz7CqWTMs?...
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!
Noone has and noone will ever want to watch a mush of genAI paraded as a movie.
Making AI slop is very very different than making a movie that anyone wants to watch. Stop being such gullible chuds
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
actual creativity that probably doesn't destroy the environment
Lol fuck off with AI slop
LA Times shilling for crooks and paedophiles.
okay but they can't
It would be cool to have a single national newspaper that wasn't part of some billionaire's fetish for misinformation.
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!
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?
not one of the trailers was halfway decent, either.
Dawg have you considered that the film from a prompt sucks?
Are the infinite AI movies in the room with you, you fucking hack?
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.
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Get a grip
Access to money and distribution. That’s all it’s good for now.
Did an AI write this article?
If pee is stored in the balls, what does the bladder still represent?
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?
Taste. Vision. Talent.
that's not a real thing but this is the quality of journalism we should expect from a crappy dipshit billionaire-owned newspaper
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.
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.
Is it a good film, though? Lmao
You can generate trash with a prompt, not a film. The fuck are you on about?