• EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Disney is going to have to get super realistic in a hurry, given that you can't make fiction without writers or actors.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Their goal is to us "ai" to make fiction movies without writers or actors and if they capture enough markets and crush the unions hard enough it won't matter how badly the movies suck.

      • Goblinmancer [any]
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        1 year ago

        They just need an ai to make illumination script movies to generate 1 morbillion dollars.

        YOU WILL EAT MARIO AND MINIONS SLOP AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.

      • UlyssesT
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        15 days ago

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    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Can't wait for a series that's a Mickey Mouse impersonator in a suit ad libbing for half an hour

    • OrcaAntiyachtVanguard [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Non-union writers, actors, and crew do exist, but they're not the kinds of people who have ever worked on A-tier, Disney level type productions. They do low budget arthouse and indie stuff.

      A lot of these companies could choose to scab pretty easily, but it wouldn't be good productions.

      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        That’s a bandaid solution, at best. The amount of content the industry would need to generate with non-union labor would be so massive that even if you tried, you’d only be able to replace a fraction of the demand, and the impact on quality would do untold amounts of damage to brand perception.

        Using scab labor is a potential solution for productions that are already partly-finished (although even that’s questionable) or to fill gaps in a release schedule, but it’s unrealistic as anything but a way to buy time and leverage in the negotiation process (which isn’t nothing).

      • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My favorite thing about the AI hype is that the bazinga brains will tell you one moment that AI will replace humans in making movies or driving cars and then the next moment they’ll say that AI will form the singularity and lead to human extinction. Like, if you think AI is going to make humans entirely obsolete in the very near future, why even bring up the idea that robots will start making Marvel movies? It would be like saying climate change will lead to the apocalypse, and will also make California wine more expensive. One kind of obviates the need to talk about the other.