ireactions wrote:

Back to SLIDERS:

I've found a really interesting program called ShaderGlass. https://mausimus.itch.io/shaderglass

It casts an overlay over the screen of your Windows PC, which you can move over different windows or make fullscreen. It has presets to make the overlay make your screen mimic a cathode ray tube television with the dot pattern and the screen curvature and the crushed blacks.

I set it to fullscreen on my laptop. Then I played "Luck of the Draw". With the dot pattern masking the lack of detail and the fuzzy resolution, this is the first time that "Luck of the Draw" has looked right to me in years. And it looked... like a 90s TV show on a 90s TV screen.

Maybe, for this sort of content, the future is demastering.

It'd be interesting to see. Looks like it doesn't have .dmg and only a .zip. I don't want to have to go through installing Bootcamp again. Anyway, I trust your judgment. Now, just don't get too close to the screen son.

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:
Jim_Hall wrote:
Grizzlor wrote:

Most TV series were shot this way on film (edited in post on tape), except maybe sitcoms which were shot entirely on video.  Unfortunately, the process of obtaining the film, rescanning that, followed by a shot by shot reproduction of what was done in post, is never going to happen for this series.  It's still something that they did it for Star Trek and Next Gen.

I still hold out hope they'll rescan the film. I'm not sure if I would want the special effects redone anyway. They rescanned the film on Lois and Clark and just left the old special effects, which is better than nothing. I don't think Lois and Clark is a huge beloved series, although it is Superman. The amount of work they done for TNG was crazy. Fans were upset that James Cameron used AI for the most recent Aliens 4K transfer: https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2024/08/13/ja … volvement/. I can understand both the fans side and his as well. Long story short, the fans didn't want the AI or grain reduction and he tells his fans to get a life.

i'll never understand directors saying 'get a life' to fans when both the director and fans are being meticulous and anal about the quality of the content.   I suppose since the director thinks it's his, and therefore part of his life, it's different?  But still doesn't make sense to me -- if the director cares that much about the details, aren't these the people who share their point-of-view (rather than the apathetic people with lives).

The director can be seen as an artist and as you said feel like they can do whatever they want. I think the fans should get the better bargain though. Some movies are just pure pop culture and have influenced generations. It's not like Aliens, Terminator, etc. are relatively obscure movies. I think it's like a singer messing with the tune of an old song saying well here's the new official one now. Sound and vision can just become second nature to people.

To be honest I'm surprised so many 4K discs are still being produced, especially when the 4K players are outrageously priced. I bought two players, one $420 and the other $250. I figure 4K is the last resolution that will be ever be adopted. However I'm using a 5K iMac and the difference between reading text is like night and day. That's at desktop viewing distance though. I don't think many people would even watch a 5K TV that close. It'd be useless anyway because lack of content.

I've been buying 4K discs saying, yep, that'll be the last time I ever buy that movie again. One of the pros of buying a 4K disc is a wider color gamut than blu-ray. I don't see how they can improve on it anymore, because as Grizzlor stated your eye can only perceive so much.

Grizzlor wrote:

Most TV series were shot this way on film (edited in post on tape), except maybe sitcoms which were shot entirely on video.  Unfortunately, the process of obtaining the film, rescanning that, followed by a shot by shot reproduction of what was done in post, is never going to happen for this series.  It's still something that they did it for Star Trek and Next Gen.

I still hold out hope they'll rescan the film. I'm not sure if I would want the special effects redone anyway. They rescanned the film on Lois and Clark and just left the old special effects, which is better than nothing. I don't think Lois and Clark is a huge beloved series, although it is Superman. The amount of work they done for TNG was crazy. Fans were upset that James Cameron used AI for the most recent Aliens 4K transfer: https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2024/08/13/ja … volvement/. I can understand both the fans side and his as well. Long story short, the fans didn't want the AI or grain reduction and he tells his fans to get a life.

ireactions wrote:

I used to be an obsessive DVD collector. I don't collect physical media much now, but I have kept my DVD (yes, standard definition DVD) collection.

I once spent crazy money on a complete set of DANGER MAN, half of which I gave away to my father (he loves the American episodes). There came a point when I had to ask myself whether or not I would ever actually rewatch any of these discs, and each time I asked myself that, I found myself more often than not deciding against the purchase.

I was a huge fan of EARLY EDITION and didn't realize a full series DVD release was out! Thanks for mentioning that, I will snap that up.

Before streaming I would buy DVDs in the store without seeing them in the theater. Which looking back on it, was such a waste of money. I was taking a crapshoot on whether or not I'd like it. Now before purchasing I generally watch the shows and movies via streaming and make a decision. If I think I'm going to watch it multiple times I may purchase it. I recently purchased The Prisoner box set, it's limited to 1,500 copies. It has Danger Man episodes in it, but I've never seen the show.

I loved Early Edition too when it was running. It's been out a while on DVD. I bought it directly through the manufacturer, https://www.visualentertainment.tv/ a few weeks ago. Honestly the DVDs looks even worse than Sliders. The packaging has the DVDs in a flip book binder just setting in a large DVD case. But at least it's been released. There's the shows Roar (Heath Ledger) and Lazarus Man (Robert Urich) that are out only on DVD. Last time I look, Lazarus Man was made to order. I watched them when they aired, but I can't even remember how well I liked them. Early Edition along with Christy which I have a website for, are shows that people aren't being exposed to through streaming. Anyway, I may have to muster the no strength I have left for a 3rd fan website, for Early Edition.

I skip theaters. Does anyone else collect physical media? I've been upgrading my collection to 4K discs from some of my old blu-ray and DVDs. I picked up a show called "Early Edition", DVD of course. It aired on CBS back in the 90s, but it's no where to be found streaming. I guess I feel ownership is important (even though you only have certain rights to use them). Plus seeing the artwork on a shelf makes in more appealing than a digital front to me.

I wanted to order the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, but the 4K is running at an appalling $35 right now and people aren't happy. People proclaim that physical media is cheaper, and they're definitely wrong. The bang for the buck is through all the streaming services, but it gets annoying when I wanted to rewatch a movie a while back and suddenly it's pulled. Only to be rented or sold via Apple, etc. I don't remember the name.

ireactions wrote:
Jim_Hall wrote:
ireactions wrote:

Thanks for sharing that, but the Pilot is not really an effective test case. The pilot episode was edited either on film or high resolution analog videotape. It already looked sharp and crisp because it was not subject to the blurriness and field mismatching issues of episodes 1.02 - 1.08 being on low resolution tape. Upscaling the pilot episode is shooting fish in a barrel for any upscaler whether AI or a simple bicubic scaler. A real test case would be a scene from the unusually hazy "Last Days" or "Luck of the Draw" with its blurriness and film judder.

I just tried a Luck of the Draw clip. It's pretty bad. One thing about Video AI is it has helped me notice things I never had. Objects, people in the distance, etc. I'll go to my grave believing everything was shot on film, minus the special effects.

I don't think the analog videotape stored episodes of SLIDERS are going to be effective for image sharpening. Any restoration for those episodes likely has to be via generating new image frames by redrawing them entirely rather than upscaling them.

I don't know why you need to go to your grave believing it was shot on film. Of course it was shot on film. If it were shot on videotape, there would be no field mismatches from the telecining and frame conversion and no film judder. I don't think SLIDERS being shot on film is any kind of controversial conspiracy theory.

Well, people in the past have had debates whether it was film or tape.

ireactions wrote:

Thanks for sharing that, but the Pilot is not really an effective test case. The pilot episode was edited either on film or high resolution analog videotape. It already looked sharp and crisp because it was not subject to the blurriness and field mismatching issues of episodes 1.02 - 1.08 being on low resolution tape. Upscaling the pilot episode is shooting fish in a barrel for any upscaler whether AI or a simple bicubic scaler. A real test case would be a scene from the unusually hazy "Last Days" or "Luck of the Draw" with its blurriness and film judder.

I just tried a Luck of the Draw clip. It's pretty bad. One thing about Video AI is it has helped me notice things I never had. Objects, people in the distance, etc. I'll go to my grave believing everything was shot on film, minus the special effects.

Temporary links (avg 95MB per file):
https://slidecage.com/wp-content/upload … 9/rhea.mov
https://slidecage.com/wp-content/upload … /rhea2.mov

They've added a new model called Rhea, which has given me the best results.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_Tv7uFM … BiNWFlZA==

Here's my latest testing with Topaz. They've improved quite a bit, but to each their own. I should have cropped it down to a 4:3 instead of leaving the 16:9, but whatever. I have all the Video and Gigapixel updates mind you, and it seems to take a lot longer to process one image than several seconds of video. They have some work to do on that.

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I've tested some free stuff now and then. But I mainly use ChatGPT. But AI is incorporated into all the browsers so it's almost impossible not to use. I purchased the updates of Topaz Gigapixel and Video Ai. There's a "recovery" AI model that is pretty good. But it uses so much of my GPU that I really need to upgrade my crappy computer. Topaz updates are sometimes in the gigabytes now.

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TemporalFlux wrote:

Random appearance in my Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/PowerRangersDay/sta … 8729776134

A vortex-like portal to another dimension?  A handheld device that activates it?  Not quite on point, but it tickles the memory

Not sure why Dr. Phlox is there, though

I don't think Tracy realized how powerful Sliders was. You can see it in entertainment like Power Rangers, Marvel, etc. But when it affects society on such a wide personal level, that is huge. Time and again Sliders is brought up on X, literally every single day in their personal lives. There are other TV shows I can think of that are never brought up like this.

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Forgot to mention that Sliders gone poof into thin air on Roku. Just like that kid in Electric Twister Acid Test.
https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details … s/season-3

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We definitely need AI safety in some form, but I don't think we're ever going to get it. Any start up can make it now, open source. Some websites claim to determine whether an image is real or not, which I don't have much faith that will work. Social media has gotten to the point where anyone can make up any old thing and thousands will believe whatever nonsense they say. There's too much information to sort through, but I'm sure some person's gonna say AI will help. AI images are being used politically but for the most part we can tell what's fake and what's not.

There were some images I saw where I would be completely fooled, but I can't find them. They were like bathroom selfies lol. I remember people complaining about Bitcoin miners killing the electricity grid by using insane amounts of graphic cards. Which I think Bitcoin is useless for as a good form of currency. It's slow and the fees are ridiculous. But now people are saying the electricity grid is being hit hard with AI as well. I think 2025 will be the defining year on how much AI will affect us in the future.

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ireactions wrote:

Honestly, a lot of this reads like magical thinking, just the assumption that AI technology advances effortlessly and exponentially. I'm not saying it couldn't, but it's still an assumption.

When you have Muppet Music videos you know it's all over man, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0U_7pBi_Vo

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Email me and I'll send it.

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Done a quick Q&A with Kari about Sliders. Didn't ask for a lot, because I didn't want to take up too much of her time but here it is:

https://slidecage.com/kari-wuhrer-interview/

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Apple is putting in $1 billion of research every year for ai. They're even reportedly working on robots now: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-rep … -products/. I assume we'll learn more about their AI during their developer conference in June.

It's about that time again to take the i,Robot movie off my shelf and do a rewatch.

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

Maybe  the next generation of algorithms will handle poorer source content better.  Then again maybe not.  We can only hope.

My belief is that these algorithms will eventually learn from close up shots and distribute them to the background and other correlating scenes. For instance, it will learn Quinn's face and all the details he has. Then it can "reassemble" Quinn's face whenever he's in a shoddy pixelated background.

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A "Figure" robot has now been integrated with OpenAI. Whether the voice is AI or not I don't know. If so, it's pretty convincing to be a human. The latency of interaction though is pretty bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw

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Wendy's to start testing Uber-style surge pricing.

“Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing a variety of enhanced features on these digital menu boards like dynamic pricing, different offerings in certain parts of the day, AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling based on factors such as weather.”

https://www.today.com/food/restaurants/ … rcna140601

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ireactions wrote:

Would any of us survive an AI war of autonomous drones?

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/24/swarms … d_partner/

I'm picturing a guy from Sliders typing frantically on a 3 inch thick laptop trying to disable them.

That's makes sense. It's sad though they get better packaging and we're left on the side of the road. However, the 2014 Universal release is pretty good but I don't believe a lot of people got it. It's ridiculously expensive now because it's rare and hard to find.

P.S. I can't believe this thread is 8 years old. Time flies.

I put my review of the German blu-ray at the bottom of the page here:
https://slidecage.com/dvd/complete/

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"Reddit has struck a deal with Google that allows the search giant to use posts from the online discussion site for training its artificial intelligence models and to improve services such as Google Search."

-https://apnews.com/article/google-reddi … 21d3c6a708

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ireactions wrote:

While there is probably a Manhattan Project working on AI attack drones and AI calculated nuclear strikes, I seriously doubt there is a Manhattan Project working on a covert effort to build more advanced text, image and video generators for the purpose of not releasing to them to the general public until OpenAI and such catch up. What would be the point or gain? Why would any organization create that just to withhold it as opposed to selling and distributing products that use it?

Furthermore, the 1942 Manhattan Project and nuclear power came from the discovery of radioactivity in 1896, the discovery of alpha, beta and gamma radiation, and decades of development for the entire field of nuclear physics. Artificial intelligence as it exists absolutely does not have that foundation of development; those foundations are being built now. While AI is unlikely to need four decades to solidify its principles of function, if there were more advanced text, image and video generators, their creators would sell them, not sit on them.

I think the main objective is that it can be used as a tool for misinformation.

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ireactions wrote:

Who is 'we' in this context?

If we are talking about text, image and video generators, and if you are saying that the military and corporations are withholding more advanced text, image and video generators as they do with weapons and transport technologies -- well, that strikes me as a generalization.

The United States of America. I'm talking about a generalization of secrecy. Manhattan Project is one example among countless others.

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ireactions wrote:

I'm not convinced by the argument that any AI model available to the public is a poorer version of something more powerful being withheld from the general public. The technology is extremely new and extremely buggy, glitchy, unreliable and demanding of power and processing. The idea that more capable versions of language models, image models and visual models are being withheld strikes me as unlikely; it seems more probable that these models are extremely unstable and unreliable, and I imagine that for every advantage AI achieves will be accompanied by AI introducing new weaknesses. And all the Sora videos look like animated paintings to me. Vivid and compelling animations, but animations nonetheless.

But I will always be ready to change my mind.

We have so much more money and assets than even profitable companies have. ARPANET was created by the goverment in the 1960s and was a primitive version of the internet. https://www.britannica.com/topic/ARPANET. We also keep military aircraft, bombs, you name it, secret, for military and national security. They also call it a race: https://www.state.gov/artificial-intelligence/. It's like a space race imo, inevitable but an insane road we're going down. People so easily believe anything now on social media. Imagine if leading government officials called for war, and we're attacked as a result. But no such call was even announced, merely a fake ai video. Even now people are being scammed by fake AI calls who think their loved one has been kidnapped for ransom. As Grizzlor showed War Games come to mind, and also Fail Safe.

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ireactions wrote:

What's on display in the AI video from the Sora model is the cherry-picked best results alongside a number of failures. I'm sure AI video will be 'okay', but I doubt it'll ever be great or even good. I reserve the right to change my mind on this at any time.

C'mon man. I know the stuff is trained on already human created material. However, like you said I'm sure it's cherry picked. It's definitely good. But by far not great, yet. Imagine what we do have that is being held back from us. I'm inclined to believe governments are using this. In what ways I'm not sure. This is national security problem. I know I'm going on a slight rant. But be prepared to change your mind in a year.

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As I thought, AI would progress exponentially since Will Smith was devouring spaghetti. And that was a year ago, but it still can't get the hands right lol. Open AI has released "Sora" text to video which appears to be the best video ai yet.

https://openai.com/sora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpdyAWLDas
https://x.com/samsheffer/status/1758205 … 57732?s=20
https://x.com/bginsberg2/status/1758202 … 08155?s=20

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We need a complete overhaul of our entire transportation system. Asia has several bullet trains and here nada.

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Man that's awful.

I recently bought upgrades for AI Gigapixel, so I'm anticipating the new version whenever it releases. I've been using Photoshop's new generative fill feature. I've or 'it' added extra information to a screenshot. For most cases it takes about 5 seconds to generate and gives you 3 different options. If you don't like them you can regenerate for more. I posted it here and a reply shows the original: https://x.com/SlidersFanBlog/status/173 … 89181?s=20. I will say though I would never want this amount of tinkering to be done to a TV series. Forgot to mention I did do Gigapixel AI after the Photoshop process was done. Apparently Photoshop is using it's Adobe stock images, and in the process paying the content creators.

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cH … U5Nw?ep=14


https://sadhillmedia.com/filmformally/s3e01

This was an interesting podcast for pneumatic, ireactions and jim_hall to check out.  It's about film preservation.  It was quite interesting.

He said some companies staple the film splices together. Unreal. I'm not too afraid about Sliders' storage as long as it's not in a humid area. But leave it to Universal though, lol. I think Criterion restored badly damaged negatives from the 30s. I recently bought the MacGyver blu-ray set and it has a few to several clips in each episode where it's SD. And those clips also appear, in my opinion, to have some AI enhancements. So I'm not sure as to why this is, if they're damaged or lost. Some one had said they used tape for a clip in one of the theme intros. Apparently it was never shown in the episode, but they just used it as a promo if you wanna call it that for the theme. Although I can't vouch for the reasons in the episodes. I'm only on season 2 right now and there has to have been at least 50+ scenes in SD.

Agreed. They need to rescan the film and an AI improvement for the special effects would work out ok. On the other hand if they never want to do that, I'll still take a pure AI upscale from Universal regardless.

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and..... it's over. SAG-AFTRA Approves Deal to End Historic Strike

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-a … 235771894/

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:

History Channel had a Day in America: JFK Assassination three-part documentary.

I believe they may have cleaned up some of the archival footage.

It made me consider an interesting question: 

Should historical archival footage be enchanced via A.I. like topaz so we can more vividly re-witness the events in a more powerful way, to more viscerally see the images, or does the algorithms ultimately insert false images into the history books if it becomes what is used moving forward.  The inserted pixels etc become fact. 

This is a question with upgrading even tv shows with color changes, pixels, etc but it becomes even more salient with historical archival.

If it is enhanced I think it should be clearly notated for the viewer for historical moments. Similarly like I told ireactions there should be an option to toggle things on and off. But I don't think any studio would ever put in that effort especially if the content isn't popular.

ireactions wrote:

The HD release of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER on Disney+ and other streaming services is god-awful. It looks like FOX rescanned the original negatives, but then had it automatically cropped to 16:9 without any actual human oversight, and applied the same high brightness colour processing to every shot. As a result, night scenes now look like day, sunrises look like afternoons, actors are cut off at the top or bottom or sides.

I'd be so disappointed if I saw that on one of my favorite shows. I still feel a show should only be presented in 4:3 if they find problems on the left and right sides of the film, rather than cropping it down. It would be a good idea if the studios allowed an option to toggle between a 4:3 and 16:9 version. The laziness of not paying attention and cropping actors heads is sad.

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Disney sealing the deal soon. Buying up Hulu now:

https://www.barrons.com/news/disney-to- … l-9791592a

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One more week left to negotiate and cut a deal. If not then it's all pushed till January.
https://www.thewrap.com/studios-sag-str … -deadline/

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Looks like negotiations for SAG-AFTRA have been suspended as the AMPTP has essentially walked off. They're basically saying forget it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwOn74iVLVk

Here's a list of shows and movies affected:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p … TRA_strike

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The writer has a lot of good points. Really streaming is one of those things that is too good to be true. I began to think about that myself a while ago. Someone has to pay for it and it seems it's the writers and lower rank actors. I'm paying $8 for Hulu a month. There's quite a good amount of quality movies and TV shows. In reality we're sorta renting these TV Shows/Movies. Go back to Blockbuster in the 90s. Imagine how much money you'd have to pay for renting all of these movies and TV shows on Hulu, Paramount, etc.

I'm one of the odd balls that still thinks physical Movies/Shows have a good place in the market. Streaming services can pull their shows at will essentially. I've even seen a past TV show censored on streaming vs my DVD. I think they made a lot of money on physical. Streaming compression takes a lot away too. With physical I also have some artwork in my hands.

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It appears a Video Game strike is up for vote very soon:
https://www.sagaftra.org/get-involved/t … ation-2023

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:
Jim_Hall wrote:

It definitely looks better than Roku. Probably better than Peacock too but I don't use it anymore. Xumo looks more saturated which I don't mind either way. I compared it with the original DVD Universal release, and the DVD looks like blu-ray in comparison. So far it appears Xumo is the best streaming between the three.

I'm glad you agree and it wasn't just me.

You compared xumo to the DVD?   The pilot or other content?


I'm hoping xumo is the start of a new trend but it's too bad the material was so basterdized by other outlets.

I could tell with the Pilot and other episodes it was like night and day.

It definitely looks better than Roku. Probably better than Peacock too but I don't use it anymore. Xumo looks more saturated which I don't mind either way. I compared it with the original DVD Universal release, and the DVD looks like blu-ray in comparison. So far it appears Xumo is the best streaming between the three.

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Ban entertainment world. Maybe sports is up next.

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Now would be the perfect time for the studios to do restorations of previous films and tv shows. I know Universal has in house workers for that, but even if they are on strike they could farm those projects out to other companies.

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TemporalFlux wrote:

CBS Overnight news had a piece on Henrietta Lacks:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

Her “HeLa cells” have had a profound impact on medical advancement; and an interesting alternate history could be formed when thinking of a world where Henrietta ignored her symptoms and didn’t seek treatment before she died.  But in the context of the current Hollywood strike, it illuminates what writers and actors are fighting against with A.I.

Henrietta died in 1951; but her, in effect, living body has been used for over 70 years to advance medicine.  Her family didn’t even know for much of that time.  Currently, there are more living cells from Henrietta’s culture than the cells that made up her body.  Henrietta is still here. She is for all intents now immortal, but most people don’t know.  The recognition isn’t given. No one is compensated for it until recently.

The shuffling, silent extra characters in the background of movies and tv?  They stand to be the next immortal human commodity through A.I.; and no viewer would think twice about it just as they don’t think twice about who really made their vaccine possible.

Heard about that last night. Pretty creepy. I guess that's in part as to why they never gave her any recognition. Good insights though TF as how it parallels a.i.

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Apparently Brad Pitt has been bullied for being a scab. A production F1 movie called "Apex" has recently been halted, he's also a producer and was working behind the scenes. Now he's in solidarity with the strikers.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bra … 47641.html
https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/ … rs-strike/

After the #SlidersRewatch last night, I keep noticing the quality of the Roku video keeps getting worse. It's like they continually run Sliders off of VHS tapes.

Grizzlor wrote:

Ran into Jerry once again today, he was at the Terrificon show in Connecticut with his wife, Rebecca who was a guest there.  He was just greeting people in line all day, ha ha.  Talked to him awhile, I mentioned the zoom stuff that Tracy has been doing with Cleavant and Bob Weiss and he had me DM him those videos.  He seemed excited to have reconnected with Cleavant, but can't get ahold of Tracy, lol.

It's crazy he doesn't have Tracy's number. I actually have it, but I was sworn to secrecy not to give it out. If Jerry DMs me I'd give it to him. Unless they have a beef against one another lol. According to the Awake Nation interview Cleavant and Tracy talk a lot so they should be able to reconnect that way.

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As I predicted, NBCUniversal has been BRUTALLY FINED $250 (first-time offense) for tree trimming.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-s … 235673869/

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I admit I'm not up to date on profits. But I wonder if some of this stems from it. Some of the Star Trek series have seemed to have been pretty profitable. But a lot of TV shows are pretty much garbage overall, and there's so many series being made as RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan has pointed out.

My intellect can't grasp that article nor can my attention span with dozens of graphs.

I found this interesting graph though this morning. It compares how Streaming vs TV use has changed since 2015.

Begins at 2:10
https://youtu.be/PRk5_ohCB70?t=130

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I'm not saying that we shouldn't do it, but enforcing copyright has been a losing battle for a very long time. Particularly on the side of fan consumption of movies/shows/photos/books/etc. However I don't see how they can stop AI screenplays. A few lawsuits here and there sure. But my guess is they'll find some loophole out of it. Pay off a few politicians with the hundreds of millions and they're good to go. The cat's out of the bag and I don't think it can be stopped. At any rate it is going to be interesting how this plays out.

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For screenwriting it's probably going to take a little while longer than the rest, but not by much. That's just my opinion. We all know these multi-million dollar companies hold their cards back more than we know like the government. There's many different language models out there. Some better some worse. People have even exploited it to bypass certain code to ask it how to create bombs, etc. to test their limits. I've followed it for a while and it's advancing incredibly rapid.

Everyone probably knows these but thought I'd post these videos just in case. Imagine the capabilities they have hidden right now. They always have and always will have a far advanced version, and label it national security.

These are all obviously done by the public models
There's an old video (earlier this year) of Will Smith hilariously eating spaghetti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQr4Xklqzw8
Now there's a more advanced video of KFC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdCsrab3A3k
Also there's new Johnny Cash music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfQVZHmArA
Photos of Biden building sand castles with Putin:
https://www.news18.com/buzz/joe-biden-v … 62979.html

These are the most disturbing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scammers-a … -distress/
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-voic … ash-2023-6
https://youtu.be/HaYNO-j50rY

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Wouldn't surprise me if they slip money under the table to the city to dig up the sidewalks.

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TemporalFlux wrote:
ireactions wrote:

I've read that studios want to pay extras for one day's work in digitizing their bodies and likenesses for CG crowds which studios want to use indefinitely. I think that if a studio is going to get a lifetime of work out of that extra, that extra should get a lifetime of pay, but I suspect a reasonable rate would be a lifetime of full-time minimum wage pay that they could continue to earn passively while doing something else to bring in more income.

The truly despicable thing is that studios were already scanning actors and not telling them why:

https://movieweb.com/snowpiercer-star-b … -season-4/

I guess it's over for Harrison Ford then.

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QuinnSlidr wrote:

You will never see me watch reality TV. I hate it like the plague. And sports. Except bowling. That's it.

I watch TV to escape reality. Not to watch reality.

lol I don't blame you. To be honest I only watch 2 current tv shows and it's a reality tv show called Skinwalker Ranch and a game show called Pictionary starring Quinntar. Other than that most of my media is from 2000s or earlier.