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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMto[moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AIEnglish
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    2 个月前

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could.

    That seems fair.

    The Brutalist used AI to improve Hungarian accents, which seems a reasonable use for it. They also used it to generate photographs of fictional buildings, which has done someone out of a job. However, someone else has to come up with the prompts and sift through the results, it just feels a bit… Cheap? Low effort?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMtoAnd Finally...@feddit.uk•Passenger plane forced into emergency landing after 'rabbit sucked into engine'
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    2 个月前

    (Your link is a bit malformed)

    Ah yes, the Lemmy UI goes a bit sideways when you try and post a new link into existing markup.

    I wonder if the police were right, and he had been (perhaps sexually) assaulted, but it was the 70s and men couldn’t quite talk about that, or something.

    Ufology is interesting, but because it may be more about us than aliens.

    That could definitely be a reason (my grandfather was gay in a time when it just wasn’t possible to be open about it and it seriously impacted his life) although the damage to his trousers is unusual. I suspect the temporal lobe epilepsy explanation is right and he may have stumbled into a barbed wire fence or thorn bush.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMto[moved to piefed] movies@lemm.ee•Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’English
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    3 个月前

    As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.

    And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uktoCasual UK@feddit.uk•How many of you actually bought chocolate eggs this year?English
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    3 个月前

    Yeah, I’ve cut out added sugar apart from special occasions but I’d still pick up something for family or friends (Malteaster bunnies or white chocolate and raspberry eggs have been popular in the past) but I haven’t seen anything that didn’t look like a standard chocolate brand trying a rip-off egg with underwhelming contents. I might look a bit harder tomorrow but I can’t see myself getting anything this year.

    What I have noticed is an attempt to sell seasonal tatt as they do at Halloween and Christmas - I’ve even seen “Easter bunny please stop here” signs and lawn decorations that seem an increasing trend.

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