CNBC Squawkbox must have had space to fill, so they invited Ed on. What’s the Saatchi vision of the future of AI in cinema? [YouTube, 3:50 on]

It’s, you know, potentially the end of human creativity.

If a villain in some children’s cartoon boasted about trying to destroy human creativity, I’d have thought they were over-the-top and unrealistic. We truly do live in the stupidest timeline

@dgerard fucking useless nepo-baby failson

Iirc he was also on the forbes 30 under 30 list. Making that list more and more a list of people to avoid.

e: https://www.forbes.com/profile/edward-saatchi/ there he is, with the 30 icon. Strangely empty profile.

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So we’re going to “complete” a great work of cinema which died an untimely death, by digging it up, deconstructing it, and feeding parts of its disassembled corpse to a dark power we don’t understand (some transformer model). Then we won’t stop there- we’re going to hire living actors to construct and pose the skeletons of the zombie-actors we’re going to create in their place. Then we’re going to rip their faces off, and glue on the faces of the long-dead actors- after the dark power (transformer model) spits them out from the disassembled mass of parts we fed it.