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Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

If you’re going to SXSW give an AI bro a wedgie for us and tell ’em CFF sent ya.

Dumb turds.

Bonafide shitbirds. Thanks for reposting!

GenAI continues to be garbage tech. Nothing but errors and hallucinations and flattery, reducing everything to the stupidest possible iteration of itself. All it does it lie to you. Even if it were not ethically objectionable it is a waste of time and cannot do the job as advertised. Don't use it.

Fuck you dorks for even running this.

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@thr.com while we're at it also fuck you for continually giving air to the Tilly Norwood thing. Tilly is not an "actor" nor does anyone in the world need to be exposed to Tilly's "Debut Single."

Hey @thr.com fuck you and fuck your Harvey Weinstein interview. Who gives a FUCK what that piece of shit has to say about anything.

(Scary faces leer and reach for the camera in black and white) MONSTROUS MUSINGS The Giant Conspiracy Happening Against YOU By Phil Nobile Jr. I work with a pretty cool and diverse spectrum of employers, staffers and freelancers. Folks of different genders, sexuality, races, backgrounds. I think we're all pretty aligned ethically, morally, and where human rights are concerned, but when it comes to movies, opinions, and pop culture tastes and takes, we're all over the place. And that's great. Sure, I will shake my head at a co-worker's opinion on a movie from time to time. We might even debate our differing positions. It's fun! But I'm becoming increasingly aware that this kind of civil, respectful coexistence is giving way to a troubling, growing line of thinking I see in the world - and, more and more, in horror: "If you disagree with me, something is up." It's not even "you're wrong"; it's "you're only pretending to have a different opinion than mine, which is the correct opinion."

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Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

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The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.

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Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

Paramount Skydance Poised to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery After Netflix Bows Out of Bidding War Paramount Skydance is poised to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery now that Netflix has declined to increase its existing offer valued at $83 billion.

To other film festivals out there, especially those of you that regularly platform films from the major studios. Now seems like a great time to NOT DO THAT. If three total companies are going to own the world we all have a responsibility to work harder than ever to discover and platform new voices.

Taxpayer funded private jets for Keystone Kash. Value Menu for everyone else.

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RIP Tom Noonan

no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

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The source did confirm “Killing Satoshi” would be entirely creating the backgrounds and scenery in AI, with no shooting on location, and that AI would be used to tweak actors’ performances in place of re-shoots if necessary. “They won’t be made to say anything they didn’t say but let’s say the way they said it in conjunction with the movement doesn’t look perfect, you wouldn’t need to reshoot it. We’d just use AI to make it look better.”

idk, if I was an actor or a filmmaker or some kind of "artist" who respected my "work" I might chafe against "we'll fix it in post" quickly becoming "we'll have an LLM steal it in post"

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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

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AGREED.

Zardoz FOREVER

Would Orson Welles want his lost classic restored by A.I.? You mean the same Orson Welles who, when Ted Turner was leading the charge to colorize black & white movies, famously proclaimed "don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons"? I think I can make an educated guess here.

All entries/additional questions can be sent to us at our cffhelpdesk@chattfilmfest.org email address. All entries received before May will be considered and our winner gets a pair of CFF 2026 VIP badges so you can come hang with us and we can all make fun of AI TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY.

Because we’re getting a few questions about our Anti-AI PSA filmmaking challenge. A. DON’T USE AI TO MAKE WHAT YOU SUBMIT EVEN IF IT’S TO MAKE FUN OF AI. B. WE DON’T CARE IF WHAT YOU SEND IS AS SIMPLE AS A CELLPHONE VIDEO OF YOU RANTING ABOUT AI and C. Goddammit have FUN.

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