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[–] Jojo-Mcfrost572@kbin.social 129 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good. More please. Hold these cucks accountable.

Destroying the planet for infinite wealth.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Yeah! I’m sick of it. Not only do they want infinite money but also infinite growth.

Literally like a cancer. Feasting on society until nothing is left.

[–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You wanna get really mad? A new practice they were trying to pull off was bring in some young good looking actors; do 3d body scans, record a bunch of voice data, and then have them allow the studios a perpetual license to use their likeness for a few thousand bucks. How evil is that?

[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s only a matter of time for desperate people to sell their likeness to a company doing that. If there was a company out there saying they’d pay you $3k to do a full body 3d scan, record 1 hour of voice lines, and own the rights to your image…do you know how many people would do that? (Probably a significant amount)

Evil and awful yes, but people are desperate for cash in this economy and most people wouldn’t truly understand what they are giving up to the company

[–] TendieMaster69@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Let's hope some never become desperate, because they see through the lies and wouldn't be doing anything for money. They'd have fun watching things break.

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago

At this point they should just pay OpenAI to AI generate their "actors"

[–] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. I want more strikes. I'm tired of everything going to shit and the masses sit back and do nothing. I've gone to a few protests recently, and honestly it's cheap therapy for me. Feels nice to actually DO something.

[–] kklusz@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And what have you actually accomplished with marching and shouting? I went to quite a few BLM protests back in 2020, got tear gassed and shit along with my friends, and yet still haven’t seen anything meaningful change.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Change is slowwwww, my brother. It's rare that an actual upheaval happens and things shift noticably overnight.

It is and always has been a long, long struggle, and there is no final victory, only temporary triumphs that must be vigorously defended, because the enemy will never stop trying to take back every inch.

[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change doesn’t have to be slow and we don’t need to make more excuses for the people able to make the change. Protests outside of the US have shown how to accelerate change in the direction they want. At this point though, it appears that a lot of people have given up hope that anything will change

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

And can you blame them? The opposition infrastructure is so incredibly overbuilt that it's like trying to chip away at a wall when they keep taking away your tools.

[–] CyPhD@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's even more goddamn nefarious than just destroying the planet for wealth - if some of the shit I've been reading is right, then AI has changed the game and this strike is our fucking chance to get ahead of the shit that these studios want to pull. In what world is it okay to pay an actor a single day's worth of work and retain their likeness in pepertuiry using AI generation.

I'll admit that I'm not very knowledge on the whole workings of the AI part of it, but I do feel like every actor should have full control over their likeness and how it should be recorded and how it is applied to AI.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

From what I heard it's not even new technology but from ~2016, they're just trying to push it through again but now under the guise of AI

[–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The 1% would murder us all and replace us with AI if given the chance, never forget that. They'd be too stupid to realize that the AI bots would take them out next.