lol i didn't realize that Darren Aronofsky AI-generated series they announced a few weeks ago, "On This Day... 1776" is actually 1) on YouTube, and 2) each "episode" is like five minutes long lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDnL_a0YfQ
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@Pappy I genuinely think unboxing videos are more compelling than this. and regular old cartoons are probably cheaper to produce.
@peter Cheaper? Only because they had to pay Aronofsky.
AI is just empty. I think that's what we're experiencing. We can feel the human voice in things.
Anyway, I'll have to take a look, lol
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@Pappy I genuinely think unboxing videos are more compelling than this. and regular old cartoons are probably cheaper to produce.
@Pappy like, I think there's lots of ways generated video can be used to capture attention (have you seen the vids of people slicing glass fruit?? captivating) but for **narrative** this is a shitshow.
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@peter Cheaper? Only because they had to pay Aronofsky.
AI is just empty. I think that's what we're experiencing. We can feel the human voice in things.
Anyway, I'll have to take a look, lol
@Pappy they paid voice actors. and we don't actually know what generating video like this costs. might be cheaper. might not be!
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@Pappy like, I think there's lots of ways generated video can be used to capture attention (have you seen the vids of people slicing glass fruit?? captivating) but for **narrative** this is a shitshow.
@peter My dad sent me this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEway6v3yPI&list=WL&index=18
It is 75% accurate and just monotonous and weird. It has the veneer of truth but gets most of the details wrong. The more I watched it the more confusion and dread I felt, and it's a video about beavers.
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@Pappy they paid voice actors. and we don't actually know what generating video like this costs. might be cheaper. might not be!
@peter True. I don't know the cost either, but it IS a lot. Mainly because you would need to render these videos many times to get something useable.
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@peter My dad sent me this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEway6v3yPI&list=WL&index=18
It is 75% accurate and just monotonous and weird. It has the veneer of truth but gets most of the details wrong. The more I watched it the more confusion and dread I felt, and it's a video about beavers.
@Pappy I'm sure it will pretty much take over the low-effort content channels. I see people on the metro watch slop all the time.
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@peter True. I don't know the cost either, but it IS a lot. Mainly because you would need to render these videos many times to get something useable.
@Pappy exactly. and that takes a lot of time too, so it's not clearly offering savings there either.
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@peter I should have known after my quip @pluralistic would have more direct writing relevant to this garbage - two quotes from https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/#no-metrics-no-targets which I think are relevant (1) All forms of cultural activity have collapsed into a single, overriding imperative: "getting attention." and (2) "the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content."
So is "become unmonetizable" the new "become ungovernable"?
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lol i didn't realize that Darren Aronofsky AI-generated series they announced a few weeks ago, "On This Day... 1776" is actually 1) on YouTube, and 2) each "episode" is like five minutes long lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDnL_a0YfQ
@peter I tried to watch the video for a bit and yuck. It’s trying hard but I hate it
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lmao let's check the top comment, see how it's going.
@peter sir, can I have some more?
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So is "become unmonetizable" the new "become ungovernable"?
@oddeyed @nemoest @peter @pluralistic
Rather the new "outlawed".
If they'd leave alone all things and people they cannot monetize, that would be fine, but I'd actually expect that everything unmonetizable is squeezed out of society, then life, by economic and political pressures.
The narrative of groups being parasites on the body of societey or nation (e.g. when getting social benefits, or recently by the German Chancellor Merz, when people choose to work less than 40 hours a week) --- this narrative is part of the process: Everybody else produces value, but "these people" have "to be fed by others" or are "slacking off".
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@oddeyed @nemoest @peter @pluralistic
Rather the new "outlawed".
If they'd leave alone all things and people they cannot monetize, that would be fine, but I'd actually expect that everything unmonetizable is squeezed out of society, then life, by economic and political pressures.
The narrative of groups being parasites on the body of societey or nation (e.g. when getting social benefits, or recently by the German Chancellor Merz, when people choose to work less than 40 hours a week) --- this narrative is part of the process: Everybody else produces value, but "these people" have "to be fed by others" or are "slacking off".
@oddeyed @nemoest @peter @pluralistic
Both things --- deciding you have enough and don't to accumulate more or objectively needing help --- is morally reprehensible to the libertarian/neo-liberal mind set.
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