I didnt know that ‘history to fall asleep to’ was such a broad area. My usual go-to is Fall of Civilizations Podcast, and I do use it to fall asleep.
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Well, hopefully, you’re learning some history as it plays… these AI slop channels have a problem with not being accurate.
This is yet another podcast I should listen to, honestly. I’ve heard good things. I did buy their book, though.
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It is difficult to overstate how important it is for this film to be a huge critical and commercial failure:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-backs-ai-made-animated-feature-film-389f70b0
OpenAI is betting that if “Critterz” is successful, it will show that AI can deliver content strong enough for the big screen and accelerate Hollywood’s adoption of the technology, Nelson said.
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Those production stills don’t look compelling. The general plot outline sounds like over the hedge.
The script for “Critterz” was written by some members of the team that wrote “Paddington in Peru.”
Paddington where? This is a thing? I had to look it up and, yep, it was released in 2024, and made $196M; respectable by not earth shattering. According to reviews cited on Wikipedia, the best part was a mid-credit scene written and starring Hugh Grant which I mention not to bash Mr Grant, but to point out it wasn’t created by AI.
Sounds like soulless people making a soulless movie with soulless tools.
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To be fair, Paddington’s origin (both in the movies and in the books) is supposed to be “Darkest Peru”. You know, in a charmingly colonialist and by implication racist way.
(I’m no expert on the books but apparently he does also return to Peru in the series at one point.)
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Oh, yes. And he’s sent to England all alone with a note pinned to his jacket (though I am sure that was originally supposed to be a reference to kids being sent to the countryside during the London bombings).
I know he’s supposed to represent a toddler learning gentle life lessons, and the Peruvian bear chosen because it is relatively small and not very scary looking (no native bears in UK), but the setup hasn’t really aged well.
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Deep in the rainforests, where the sun barely penetrates. However, the guy who originally popularized that description (Stanley), almost immediately extended that metaphor in all sorts of awful ways.
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“My Torment Nexus is ruining all my fun! Wah!!”
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Crossing the streams:
“‘I never thought the Torment Nexus would eat my face,’ says man who invented the face-eating Torment Nexus.”
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