These days, movie critics who claim to be film experts are almost always wrong about what movies are good. Most of them are obviously pretentious and pretend to like boring movies to feel smart (which is a problem since many trust them to be unbiased and honest), but the real problem is how much power they have. The fact that the opinion of a few Rotten Tomatoes critics is treated as equal to the opinion of everyone else is undemocratic. Why should a group of random people’s opinions be viewed as better or more correct?
Especially in 2023 when AI is getting more and more complex, ”movie experts” just aren’t needed anymore and should probably be banned since they’re often biased and dishonest. Instead of a ”critics score”, sites like Rotten Tomatoes should use an ”AI score”. An AI would assess a movie objectively based on the quality of the script, acting, soundtrack, and so on and give an unbiased and more accurate score.
And eventually, this could probably be used for something like the Oscars as well. Instead of people voting on what they think is the best cinematography for example (which is a flawed system since most people won’t be objective and just vote based on personal bias), you could make an AI determine the winner based on quality. An AI could also analyze EVERY film that came out to make sure the winners are actually the best, which is something humans don’t have time for.
NGL doing something like feeding a movie frame by frame into GPT-4 and then making it parse and critically rate its own summaries would be funny as hell. Just imagine the absolute nonsense you'd get from that.
what gets called "AI" is just a statistical model. To judge and rank movies, you'd have to train the model with sample data -- meaning someone has to sit down and chose their examples of good films, then feed it into the programme. If, at some base level, it's derived from a someone's opinion, how can it be objective?
Objectivity, when it comes to critique, is a lie borne from a subjective opinion haver's desire to possess unassailable fact. :the-more-you-know:
Nope, it's objective information. Elon's ingenuity will ensure that woke engineers don't poison the data
You want to ban movie critics because of a misguided notion that reviews should be objective.
I want to ban movie critics because they sometimes disagree with me.
We're the same.
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But movie critics have a big problem in that they don't actually review movies to tell you if they're good or not, or if you should go see them. Instead, it's a status-seeking competition in their little ingroup of critics.
if you don't agree with the opinions of the critic just ignore them
Movie critics are subjective, completely. Thats the point. So, ignore most of them.
Find one that reviews positively movies you actually do like - someone who has similar taste to you - and then you can take their opinion (when you want it). No more, no less.
Making complicated white noise time-series to juggle ai output into 5 stars territory :meow-auteur:
