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

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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.

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.

@dgerard fucking useless nepo-baby failson