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    The real concern for screenwriters is that language models will be trained on their source material without their permission. The idea is, for instance, that once a chatbot has absorbed patterns from every SNL skit, it could write jokes equally well (plus it’s a low bar).

    Writers are taking a stand, demanding that AI not be used to write or rewrite any literary material trained on their contributions. In other words, don’t use our sh*t.

    But the producers rejected the demand, sparking another heated debate among creators anxious about AI repurposing their work to generate fresh material.

    We’ve seen this among artists (Midjourney), musicians (Drake), and online platforms (Reddit). Now it’s writers.

    Here’s our take: AI might replace copywriters, but it’s not producing Breaking Bad anytime soon. However, with cost-cutting measures and stock dips, companies resorting to chatbots (regarded as assets, not staff) is quite plausible.

    “Live from New York, it’s ChatGPT!” 

     

    AI/Chatgpt isn't going to write the next Mad Men or Breaking Bad, but could it write the next King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond and Adam Sandler movie? Probably.

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  2. 51 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Pack this shit in. Two embarrassing efforts in a row by the road team. Lakers deserve credit though. Not going to win many games when AD is literally everywhere, even if Golden State had played a solid game.

    I wonder if AD heard the criticism. But like the most favorited comment on a youtube video I read last night said:

    "AD's on/off switch should be scientifically studied" and so we will get a Triple-Single from him on Monday.

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  3. 8 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Most people do only have about a 15 second  attention span these days. 

    That’s one of the things people are talking about with the writers strike. Not so much Ted Lasso, but other shows that have a big break or hiatus between them and how they lose momentum and lose viewers and never recover.

  4. 10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    how many people do you think will dump apple tv as soon as TL ends? i know i will. i have to imagine scores of other people will as well.

    I’m in that boat.

    And just an anecdotal observation, but S1, Ted Lasso was all anyone talked about from a water cooler talk perspective. It was great great but also very trendy and word of mouth was buzzy.

    I never hear anyone of those same people talking about S3 these days. I don’t know if the perfect storm and time in the sun is over or if people just soured on S2 or what, but I’ve noticed the fall out of the zeitgeist.

    I guess the real test will be how many Emmy nods S3 gets?

  5. 3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    almost all women (and plenty of men) wear wigs in tv shows.  it's much easier for continuity.  consider this season has only covered a week or so, but took months to film.  i have no idea if strong wears a wig, but it's certainly possible.

    Blow Mind Mind Blown GIF - Blow Mind Mind Blown Explode ...

    Wigs have come a long way.

  6. 24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    For the youngsters:  inflation was above the current level for all but 2 months of a 9.5 year stretch between 1973 and 1982.  It was in double digit territory (10% to 14.8%) for 46 months of that timeframe.

    Imagine THAT pain.  Nobody likes 5%, but holy smokes it was brutal.  At least CD's returned a good rate, savers actually accumulated some money.

    Insanity.

  7. 25 minutes ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    Yes but also remember that Mattson is a pretty clear parody of Elon Musk.

    People who fancy themselves as geniuses are often blindsided when circumstances change and its proven they clearly are not.

    So it's very possible Mattson isn't playing the 4D chess that he thinks he is.

    Are we sure of this in the same way that the Glass Onion guy was a pretty clear parody?

  8. On 5/2/2023 at 2:15 PM, henrygandorf said:

    ai can't write dialogue.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65465386?

    Here's Stephen Colbert v. AI Colbert on Biden's re-election announcement.

    The real Stephen Colbert:

    "Of course, we know President Biden's real opponent is the ravages of time. If he wins a second term, he will be 86 when he leaves office and voters feel, to put it delicately, that is way too [expletive] old… But what matters is that Biden is young at heart… it's all his other organs we have to worry about."

     

    AI Colbert:

    "Big news today, folks! President Biden has announced that he will be running for re-election. That's right, the man who once said he didn't want to run for president because of his age is now saying, 'Age is just a number, and so is 78!'

    "Now, I know some of you might be concerned about President Biden's age. In a recent poll, 50% of Americans said they were worried about his age, and the other 50% were Joe Biden. But let's be real, folks, Biden's age is not a big deal. He's got the energy of a 30-year-old, and the memory of a... well, I forget what I was going to say."

  9. 1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:


    I’m curious how much of this can be done remote / from home ?

    For the zoom writing rooms, apparently, it's not great:

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    Wrapped up in the economic issues and creative stasis is a sense that TV writing just isn’t that fun anymore. “It’s become a grind at every level,” Jacqmin said. Most writers’ rooms have gone virtual—a pandemic necessity that has become a cost-saving norm—draining the camaraderie that used to help writers learn from one another, feel vulnerable enough to pitch personal story ideas, or just vent. “We always had a Ping-Pong table near the writers’ room, and on every break we would have these completely bare-knuckle tournaments,” Byock said, of her previous jobs. “That was part of what made it feel fun to go to work. It felt like we were really building something together. It wasn’t just a punch-the-clock job. And, when you’re on Zoom, working on a show that you don’t even know whether or not is going to be greenlit—it’s just a completely contingent situation—it’s very hard to get to that place.”

     

  10. This Star Wars Day, let’s take comfort that our current banking crisis is nowhere near as bleak as the one the Galactic financial sector faced following the Empire’s collapse.

    Setting the scene: At the end of Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi, the Galactic banking system was on the brink of failure. A $419 quintillion government project, the second Death Star, had just been destroyed by the Rebel Alliance, and the Galactic economy was set to enter a deep, deep depression.

    How to avoid catastrophe? Well, you had the usual suspects pushing bitcoin, but the only real solution was a massive bailout to save distressed banks. In a 2015 paper, Zachary Feinstein, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, attempted to calculate how much the Rebel Alliance would have to spend on a bank bailout.

    What he found: Estimating that the Intergalactic Banking Clan contained 17,501 systemically important banks that were too big to fail, and that the Galactic economy’s annual Gross Galactic Product (GGP, similar to GDP) was $4.6 sextillion, Feinstein calculated that a rescue package would need to be at least 15% of GGP in order to prevent “catastrophic economic collapse.” That amounts to a $690 quintillion bailout. 

    Makes the $20 billion the FDIC spent rescuing SVB depositors look pretty cheap

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  11. 1 minute ago, BHMCruiser said:

    Wait so now you are adding a condition, that the deal will close? I thought we were only discussing whether the 192 is real. I don't think there's any doubt it's real. Enjoy your hatwich. 

    Okay. Let's see? I don't think it's determined one way or another, right?

  12. 10 minutes ago, Hate said:

    There is nothing wrong with this statement at all, and I would agree that this was possibly the worst episode of the series. This may be an unpopular comment, but I dislike pretty much every scene with Henry in it. I don’t think the kid playing that character is a very good actor. Every scene with him seems a little awkward to me. The only character/actor I’ve disliked as much would be “Nora” from Season 2.

    I think one of the problems, as others have hit on, is the longer run time. This episode was an hour long dang near. At the 25 minute mark I remember looking how much time had passed because the episode was still stuck in first gear. Worse than first gear. The first 25 minutes could have been completely cut.

  13. On 2/10/2023 at 11:14 PM, ztejas said:

    No wait holy shit this is fucking insane. 2nd track. 

    Oh my God this dude is going to be massive. 

    Did this guy ever end up going viral/massive/blowing up?

    It's pretty good, not that great or special (to me) and I clearly don't love it as much as you do.

    A modern Dirty South Rydaz to me (minor dallas rapper for a minor rap scene)

  14. Great article on some of the underbelly: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/why-are-tv-writers-so-miserable?

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    For newer writers, there’s a sense of having shown up at the party too late. Alex O’Keefe, who is twenty-eight, grew up poor in Florida and worked as a speechwriter for the senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and as Green New Deal campaign director before getting staffed on FX’s “The Bear.” “It should be this beautiful rags-to-riches story, right?” he told me. “Unfortunately, I realized not all that glitters is gold.” During his nine weeks working in the writers’ room for “The Bear,” over Zoom, he was living in a tiny Brooklyn apartment with no heat; sometimes his space heater would blow the power out, and he’d bring his laptop to a public library. (He was never flown to set.) He thought that he was making a lot of money, but, after reps’ fees and taxes, it didn’t add up to much. “It’s a very regular-degular, working-class existence,” he said. “And the only future I’m seeking financially is to enter that middle class, which has always been rarified for someone who comes from poverty.”

    Last month, “The Bear” won the W.G.A. Award for Comedy Series. O’Keefe went to the ceremony with a negative bank account and a bow tie that he’d bought on credit. He’s now applying for jobs at movie theatres to prepare for the potential strike. “A lot of people assume that, when you’re in a TV writers’ room, you sit around a table, and you just dream together,” he said. “With ‘The Bear,’ I learned from these masters that, if you are given a shit sandwich, you can dress that up and make it a Michelin-star-level dish. And they were consistently given shit sandwich after shit sandwich.” He recalled one of the executive producers apologizing to him. “She said, ‘I’m so sorry this is your first writers’-room experience, because it’s not usually like this. It shouldn’t be like this.’ I don’t even know the alternative. I thought we would be treated more like collaborators on a product. It’s like an assembly line now.” ♦

     

     

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  15. 1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

    For this next drill, we’re going to tie derka’s dick to hamsterhooka’s dick and put them in their own Ted Lasso thread.

    I mean, Derka is mostly right in this one thread that I am in that he is also in. I'm sorry if we are supposed to be blindly against anything he says, but he's kinda right so I will every so often pos rep posts I agree with and/or think are funny. Why is that such an ordeal?

    This episode was trash. It was probably the worst episode of all 3 seasons. That's my opinion, at least.

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