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Yeah it's obviously like Pokémon in several key regards but from what I've seen of it the actual game has a lot of originality and new concepts. We shouldn't need to completely reinvent everything all the time, when something has a big cultural impact on people as children they should be allowed to play with and evolve those concepts - I know Pokémon doesn't understand how evolution works but we as a society should take our cultural property seriously.

If you shove your ideas into kids brains then the adults who grow from those kids should own those ideas, the only reason we don't is because Disney wanted a monopoly on mouse picture.

Set copyright to something reasonable like twenty years and focus on making a better society with free growth of ideas and expression rather than protecting the profits of the richest few

And they never get any money off the back of it...

It's funny how people will willingly forget how the world works when they really want magic to be real.

We know, you want to make a ridiculous statement and for everyone pointing out you're objectively wrong to be ignored.

It's the level of thinking of a six year old.

This is a silly take, people have benefitted hugely from all the big tech developments in the past and will do from ai also - just as you have a mobile phone that can save and improve your life in a myriad of ways so you'll have access to various forms of ai which will do similar. GPS is a good example, functionally free and making navigation far safer, faster, and better.

Here's a genuine already happened use case for ai benefitting you, an open source developer was able to add a whole load of useful features to their free software by using AI to help code - I know because it was me, among many many others.

I know people making open source ai tools too and they're all using AI coding assistants - mostly the free ones. I've seen a lot of academic researchers using AI tools also generally built using open source tools like pytorch and with help from ai coding tools. Even if you don't use ai yourself you're already benefitting from it, even if you don't use open source software the services you rely on do.

Imagine being able to implement the most advanced and newest methodologies in your design process or get answers to complex and niche questions about new technology instantly. You buy a printer for example and say to your computer 'I've plugged in a printer make it work' and it says 'ok, there isn't a driver available that'll work with your pc but I've written one based on the spec in the datasheet, do you want me to print a test page?'

Imagine being able to say 'talk me through diagnosing a fault on my washing machine' and it guides you through locating and fixing the fault, possibly by designing a replacement part and giving you fabrication options.

Or being able to say 'this website is annoying, change it so that I only see the video window' or 'make a playlist in release order of all abba songs that charted' or 'check on currently available archives to see if there's a mirror of this deleted post' or 'check all the sites and see if anyone posted a sub version of the next episode of this anime' or 'Keep an eye on this lemmy community and add any popular memes involving fish to my feed but don't bother with any meta stuff or aquatic mammals' or 'this advert says I can make free money, is it ligit?'

The use cases that will directly benefit your life are almost endless, natural language computing is a huge deal even without task based solvers and physical automation but we also have those too so the increased ability of people to make community projects and freely shared designs is huge.

If those 'buzzwords' aren't ai then what do you think ai is? It's like saying circle and square aren't shapes they're buzzwords

Well I use it most days and it's sped up my coding and documentation writing considerably.

You're either too dumb to be able to use it or you've not used it because of some weird fear of new things, either way you're not coming from a place where your opinion has any value on this topic.

You'd always find a way to accuse him of genocide or some equally inflated horror, it's such a predictable tactic.

I really don't think we can and I'm fed up of them trying, why don't they let old things be old and comics be comics?

You want to make a good film in the twenty twenties then write a film to be a film in the twenty twenties.

I think a lot is because Hollywood became a Henry Ford production process, one part feeds into the next so they'd have empty studios and workers idle if the next idea isn't ready to go.

Also it literally doesn't matter, this marvel film has literally the same plot and jokes as the last one? That's ok we cooked up a drama where we pretend villainous gamers are against it to get people talking about it, we seeded stories into the media we own about it and forced our celebrities to pretend to love it...

They can make the absolute worst shit and as long as they link it to something vaguely related to some culturally significant thing it'll be huge, even more so if they can link it to a social divide or political division they have no intention of ever actually caring about.

Childhood toy + social flag = money, it works for comic books 'i had a the flash t-shirt when I was six I have to like these new films', it worked with Barbie 'this proconsumerism corporate tat which was heavily criticised by notable feminists has made a film attempting to shoehorn social progress back into a corporate friendly sales generating mush, they say the baddies don't like it so I have to go see it!', and it works with endless sequels 'this franchise now makes zero sense, has the most painfully predictable plots, has gone so far off the rails jumping sharks that literally nothing makes sense and there are zero stakes to any of it which totally ruins everything that made the first one good...' and you can't even tell what I'm talking about with that because it's everything (i was thinking john wick btw)

Make something actually good and no one will care unless the media circus tells them to, that's how you get s flop. Make something even slightly changing intellectually or from a certain point of view and instantly most your audience is gone or angry, but be like Barbie and put sparkle on social concepts 90% of the world has agreed on for decades while actively avoiding anything more contentious then you don't need to worry about alienating the audience or going over their heads.

And for some reason people just won't stop watching it, they won't watch indy stuff made with passion or small budget things no matter how good they are because they HAVE to see the big releases, like you'll lose touch with society and be unable to make friends if you don't force yourself to endure at least a dozen painfully dull industry movies a year.

Really though writing should be the least important part of a journalists job, digging through stories and finding the truth or understanding the complex strands of the story should be and that often involves going back and editing, restructuring, reediting, reworking and adding to it over and over again.

It gets really hard to see your writing with fresh eyes once you've got it so perfectly constructed in your head, it's super easy to miss awkward mistakes that have crept in - this is why editors were a thing but newspapers rarely bother anymore or the editor is too focused on political and social acceptable to notice grammar or word choice errors

Because writing doesn't really work like that, the reason we get bland writing is because they keep adding extra chefs.

Thay get these professional writers that learned formula in school and apply it to sections of someone else's work and wonder why the result is an ugly tapestry of formulaic rubbish.

All the things people love are written by people with passion for the project, then they get a budget increase and professional industry writers get brought in and it's all shitty generic snappy dialog and dramatic posing that feels uncomfortable and awkward in the scene.

It's like how the fan star trek movies are better than most the recent trek stuff but everyone throws their money at the corporations and doesn't even watch the fans ones when they're free.

People are to blame for media being as low grade as it is, every idiot that signs up to Disney channel and watches the most soulless drivel ever made is shaping our society to have more of the same