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[–] 3 points 10 hours ago

Every little new thing I learn about AI always makes it worse. Very informative, but wow.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    is this a good documentary? first time i'm hearing about it

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago

    very informative, i had only a vague idea about all the weird eugenics connections, but it's a bit shocking that it apparently goes back all the way to the "founding" of silicon valley.

    the usage of "ai" generated footage leaves a bitter aftertaste though. i sort of get it's used deliberately to illustrate the weirdness and sloppiness of the whole thing. but i still find it odd for a project to clearly show the myriad ways of how ai is bad, only to use it themselves. not a choice i would have made.

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  • [–] -2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    This isn't the Ghost in the Machine I was thinking of when seeing the title of the post.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107009/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Not available in my country, this is anti Dutch discrimination!

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 day ago

    if you're in the US and have too much time on your hands, the comments on this one need attention, cos PBS leave comments on then just don't moderate them.

    please do stop by in "new comments" mode and upvote the good top-level comments, downvote the bad, and report the racists and straight up Nazis.

    the upvotes/downvotes determine the default "Top comments" view, and it takes multiple reports for any given racist

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago (37 children)

    Yeah, I don't like that. Naming your documentary the same name as a movie from the early 90's is a choice. A confusing choice.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago

    So everything that exists must have different names? It's very common for things of all kinds to have the same name, no matter if they're at all related or not. And it's obviously much less of a "problem" when they're not related and in completely different categories.

    You're being mad over absolutely nothing.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (22 children)

    you mean Ghost in the Shell, the anime that was named after the 1949 philosophical concept of a ghost in the machine, which the documentary is named after? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago (21 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Machine_(1993_film)

    I mean Ghost in the Machine, a movie from 1993 about a serial killer who gets struck by lightening and somehow ends up digitized and uses a digital scan of a woman's planner to stalk her and her son and attempt to kill them.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (20 children)

    your excuse for not engaging with an important anti-AI documentary is that it reminds you of an obscure 90s B-movie that was named after the same extremely well-known philosophical concept from 1949?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 day ago (19 children)

    That's not what I said.

    What I said was I found the fact that the documentary (the first I am hearing about, by the way) has the same name as a movie that already exists and that's confusing.

    I don't know why this is hard to understand. If the documentary was named "The Art of the Deal" would that not be a little confusing? Maybe even a little off putting?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (18 children)

    anything to not have to turn on your brain and watch the fucking documentary this thread is about, I guess!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (17 children)

    I just don‘t understand how this fucking guy kept doubling down on fucking nothing. Thanks for letting this continue for as long as it did

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    I was so curious to see if they’d fucking get it but no

    their history of posting on Fuck AI and having one mid post here really made them think they could come in here, refuse to engage with the topic of the thread, and quadruple down on uhh the anti-AI documentary being unwatchable because it reminds them of a movie only they watched

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  • [–] -4 points 16 hours ago* (10 children)

    The 1993 movie was kinda popular back in the day. I think y'all need to stop overthinking what they said and just take their actual words for face value because it is confusing if you actually knew about the 1993 film and saw this post's title thinking that's what they were showing.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    Seeing as we never explicitly litigated what happened and mostly just trolled the guy: I mean it would be one thing if the guy came in and made a joke about it sharing the name with another, unrelated movie. Like, ok, sure, whatever. But guy came in specifically criticising the title of a documentary. And acting like the movie was the sole owner of the title, which as was pointed out, was almost definitely taken from the name of a thought experiment. Things get named after other things all the time! It’s fine!

    Like imagine this was an instance discussing sports and doping. And Gerard posted about the documentary “Icarus” being released on youtube. Then guy comes along getting pissed and confused that the documentary shares the name with "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Guy should just get banned for being off topic. Instead we trolled him for entertainment.

    Anyway no further responses from me, don’t really know why you’re going to bat for this guy, people have been banned for less

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

    How is it confusing??? Do you only know about two movies?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    I only know about one movie, the 2016 biopic of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it on IMAX this Friday. (Weird that it's suddenly in theaters again, I kind of thought it flopped, but see no need to investigate further.)

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  • [–] -4 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

    Most movies don't share the same fucking name. 🤦‍♂️

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  • [–] -5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Keyword here was most. Not never.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Gotta admit I was sure they meant GiTS at first. Otherwise I would have gone with Maximum Overdrive or Lawnmower Man or something

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    they dug in so hard about it being that specific obscure movie that I’m pretty sure they were trying to derail the discussion into a weird argument instead of, you know, anything related to the documentary

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    pretty sure you mean Ghost in the Shell (2017)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(2017_film) I think you meant this link, that other link links to a different, unrelated movie

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  • [–] -4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    No. I meant exactly the link I picked. It's not about the contents of the movie or the documentary. It is about the title.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    I’m just trying to be helpful, I’m like 9000% sure you meant Ghost In The Shell (2017) starring beat takeshi. You can just admit your wrong and move on

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