like, this isn't even about whether AI is good or bad or whether you should work for an AI company or not, all of those are complex questions with nuanced and contextual answers. but you should, under no circumstances, work for *this* AI company.
Whenever anyone has a bio or, worse, describes themselves in person as an "empath" about a dozen red flags start immediately flying like it's the finale of Les Mis.
Exactly this. It's true from media to politics to community spaces. There is *no* appeasing people whose entire grift is built off farming outrage. Their tower is only propped up by never, ever, being sufficiently appeased or placated. Any attempt is doomed to do nothing but harm.
The thing about this piece that drives me up the WALL with this piece is how studios are spending so much time and money on "oh well how do we not anger the rabid mob, what's safe" when the answer is NOTHING will stop them, you just have to make what you make and protect the people who make it
Here's a radical fucking idea; instead of catering to fanbases who don't want to be challenged in a new medium, MAKE NEW FUCKING THINGS. Put money into marketing those new things and create new IP. Hollywood did this for DECADES. variety.com/2024/tv/news...
The threat of toxic fandoms â from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings to Bridgerton and Game of Thrones â has become an intractable headache for almost every studio.
Another trick, which no major studio would ever invest in, is to defang them by mocking them. There is literally no weakness more central to the entire identities of the reactionary "fan" grift circuit than being mocked. It's part of the reason why people so close to them backlashed hard to "weird"
From an article about toxic fandom. Holy shit. No. No no no. This is...oh god. You want to produce the mushiest, blandest, worst version of a story? Just do this simple trick! Geeeeeezus. variety.com/2024/tv/news...
Additionally, much of this toxic âfanâ activity is completely inauthentic: for profit right wing grifting, and even, in some cases, paid propaganda funded by bad actors such as Russia (as in the case of Lauren Chen, whose unhinged reactions to Acolyte I watched before her funding source was exposed)
Must-read of the day: variety.com/2024/tv/news...
The threat of toxic fandoms â from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings to Bridgerton and Game of Thrones â has become an intractable headache for almost every studio.
A reminder to British workers: It is illegal for an employer to make you work over 48 hours per week unless you sign a waiver to that right. You don't have to sign it, and it's illegal for them to force you to do so. So simply never, ever, sign it. www.rockpapershotgun.com/cloud-imperi...
The Star Citizen developer has mandated overtime in the lead-up to Citizencon, but the devil's in the details.
Newsletter: OpenAI is a bad, unprofitable business, with most of its revenue coming from premium subscriptions, and only 27% ($1bn) coming from people licensing its technology, suggesting that the generative AI industry is much smaller than we thought. www.wheresyoured.at/oai-business/
OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it...