The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could.

That seems fair.

The Brutalist used AI to improve Hungarian accents, which seems a reasonable use for it. They also used it to generate photographs of fictional buildings, which has done someone out of a job. However, someone else has to come up with the prompts and sift through the results, it just feels a bit… Cheap? Low effort?

Yep, they do a nice job of wiki integration. We definitely want something similar with Ibis.

My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”.

While I doubt Fediverse wikis will replace Wikipedia, it can definitely take on wikis/fandom but, as mentioned, it can also act as the kind of wikis subs have. So you might have:

“c/community/faqs” “c/community/archive” “c/community/tutorials” “c/community/resources” “c/community/recommendations”

Depending on their needs - meme communities might not need much, while computing, privacy, etc might want quite a few to add in useful information and links that might otherwise get buried.

ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy

So top level might be:

ibis.wiki/threadiverse_categories

Under which you might have:

• [[threadiverse_technology]]
• [[threadiverse_media]]

The latter then might contain:

• [[threadiverse_books]]
• [[threadiverse_films]]
• [[threadiverse_television]]
• [[threadiverse_comics]]

Then the last one would include:

• [[c/[email protected]]]
• [[c/[email protected]]]
• [[c/[email protected]]]

Very impressive.

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I’m getting exhausted currently.

It must be collaborative or you’ll burn yourself out.

I wonder if it can be done on [email protected] and then that information gets pulled through to another site where it could be used for filtering. And/or, as Ibis now federates with Lemmy (see [email protected]), it would just appear on here anyway and you could search “political communities” and it would bring up the relevant wiki page inside Lemmy.

This also fits with what I was pondering on Threadiverse community alternatives to subs. There are a few sites that went up with the first Rexxit but they are no longer maintained and it would be better done in a wiki.

My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”. So we’d have:

wiki.feddit.uk/c/privacy

And elsewhere you’d have:

wiki.lemmy.world/c/privacy wiki.lemmy.ml/c/privacy

And these could then be linked in from both:

ibis.wiki/sub_alternatives ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy

Nail down your naming structure early on and it should go smoothly, with wikis being flexible enough to allow changes to be made if we needed to tweak things.

It is one of the reasons why I asked @[email protected] about being able to log into Iris with your Lemmy account, because you could closely integrate Lemmy and Ibis, especially now it federates (no point in having two accounts).

As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.

And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.

I’d guess that, while this is heading to the cinema, Amazon would be looking to start a TV series too.

It was badly conceived, planned, cast, executed and then undermined by studio interference. It failed at every single level and I don’t think Covid can take the blame.

Strong central performances save a plot with some pretty contrived plot developments. Worth a watch but you have to suspend belief. So a lot like the Church.

Oh indeed. I’ve not given up yet.

It’s diminishing returns as those most amenable to the message are now here.

Problems averted.

Don’t tempt them, I’ve only just cleaned that mess up.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it. If you liked the first two, then you’ll also like this.

Films you throwing popcorn for a social media boost.

An impressive amount of work there - good to here it’s sorted.

That’s not a panda, that’s Jack Black in a panda costume and he won’t need more awards after he wins all the Oscars for saying “chicken jockey”.

Anyway, I am uploading some here:

https://video.infosec.exchange/a/emperor/

You can subscribe to them on here via:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

However, we’ve experimented with them and they aren’t currently drawing over new videos into Lemmy, and @[email protected] has figured out why so we should be getting that fixed.

Of the ones I updated I’d flag up:

• Steamboat Willy - just became PD this year and means that version of Mickey Mouse is now free to use, at least initially that means in crappy horror films.
• Laurel and Hardy: Battle of the Century - once thought to be lost except for the custard pie fight (which my Dad was a big fan of), the bulk of it has been found and it is all now PD.

Would folks be interested in a “public domain film” community? I’ve pondered starting one.

And by latest do you mean recently made PD?

Only by cheating a spreading your posts over a dozen alts.