MangoCats

The arts is a vital part of our culture, not our survival - yes. The fact that we have over 4% of GDP going to "the arts" (that's over $1.2T in the US alone), is an achievement, not a waste. It also means - more or less 1 in 25 people you meet is dependent / heavily dependent on the arts not just as something to do with their time, but a significant source of their livelihood.

I'd call myself more "creative adjacent" but, to your "or with" question: definitely yes.

If it's clearly posted, that's fine - and appropriate in certain mountain pass situations.

If it's a surprise when the fine arrives in the mail, that's pure unadulterated evil.

I don't like to be cold like this, but I think "creatives" need to depend less on their agents and production companies and all that industry infrastructure promising 1 in a million "stardom" while stringing the other 999,999 along with breadcrumbs leading nowhere.

The same technology they're bitching about destroying those jobs that most of them never had in the first place, is technology that enables smaller budgets to create competitive entertainment. Self-publishing is a very real thing now alongside traditional "Best Seller List" promotional publishing houses. No, you're not likely to get on "Oprah" or whatever the magic promotional outlet is these days with your self published book, but every creative who achieves that kind of stardom that virtually all of them are hungering for is absolutely stealing the limelight from hundreds or even thousands of other people just as talented as themselves or more...

In other words, stop whining and start making things happen for yourself, you have better access today than ever. There's still a place for superstars in today's world, but instead of the "top 100" getting all the attention, it's time for a top 10 to be followed by 10,000 you might also want to check out. The long tail has gotten fatter, and it should continue to grow.

Norway does a lot of sensible things that seem impossible in the USA.

I actually used to use chromium nearly full time. I'm too addicted to having my personalization settings "travel with me" between devices. I probably open my browser on 6-10 devices in an average week.

Never heard of it. At 4 years of maturity maybe it's time for a look, thanks.

What's happening to movie production with AI is a lot like what happened to music production with digital audio workstations. The cost of making top tier production value product is plummeting like a stone falling to the moon.

You want to make music with a full symphony orchestra, you can still do that. We actually attend our city orchestra concerts a couple of times a year. However, if you want to produce your own music you can almost get better sound quality out of a smartphone today than the Beatles did out of Abbey Road studios back in their day.

The spontenaity of live performers, whether music or acting, is much MORE cost effective than painstakingly replicating that kind of performance through digital methods. I think we're going to see a continued appreciation of real actors in movies, in between all the slop that the industry "test markets" to see what they can get away with.

Too nerdy, doesn't send the same message as "ordinary people hate Edge THIS MUCH!"

the selective enforcement is, by design, a way to manufacture an excuse to harass and persecute minorities/undesirables.

Absolutely, and this is another thing that's going to prevent "fair" algorithmic enforcement from happening.

The correct solution is to relax or abolish the laws themselves until they diminish to the point that fully enforcing them is reasonable.

I have always thought this, but I don't get my jollies out of selectively "sticking it to" people different than me for the same things I get away with all the time. Apparently, a lot of our government, police, and voters do...

I mean, I thought George could read a room a little better than this, but maybe the interviewer managed to put him at ease enough to say what he's really thinking.

I met an out of work actress who had a thing or two-thousand to say about AI, none of them good. At the time, she was more blaming the industry and the pandemic for her woes - this was almost 2 years ago - by now I'm sure she's gone full ninja-berserker on AI "replacement" of stunt actors (which she used to be, still is in theory, but hasn't worked since 2020.)