• blakestacey@awful.systemsM
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    3 days ago

    Who the balls is the market for an AI-glazing “documentary”? The more one likes the technology, the shorter one’s attention span.

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      2 days ago

      They’re going to have their AI watch it and summarize it for them so then can nod their head and go “mmhm” and know that they are truly the pioneers of the Future…

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    3 days ago

    Hooray…still thinking about how apparently the OpenAI and Anthropic PR teams were impressed with this doc, which is a pretty clear indicator of what it’s going to be like

    the reviews on imdb have dropped a bit (from 8.5 down to 7.5) but that’ll probably change when the full thing drops

    Also is it just me or does the trailer have a weirdly large views vs likes ratio? 5.6mil views with only 6.7K likes? is that the norm for documentaries?

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      Also is it just me or does the trailer have a weirdly large views vs likes ratio? 5.6mil views with only 6.7K likes? is that the norm for documentaries?

      Most of the views are probably the target demographic feeding it to a chatbot to summarize without ever opening the page in a real browser.

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      With my extremely scientific method of “clicking on trailers for random documentaries and seeing the ratios” the like-to-view ratio is typically in a range from 1-10 to 1-100. The biggest outlier I saw was probably Will & Harper at about 1-400. The AI Doc is about 1-800. Also interesting is the comments. Will & Harper has about 6400 comments while the AI Doc only has 640, which would be comparable to something like Murder in Monaco, a documentary trailer with about a tenth of the views (and also has a comparable amount of likes).

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          Sorry if this is unsolicited, but I decided to put a bit more rigour into it and check the average of 100 netflix documentary trailers from here
          https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvahqwMqN4M0fmh2gjEqNbUA3uCVMZbDB
          And make a chart.

          Like so

          That dot on the top right is the AI doc.
          The dot on the bottom right is UNKNOWN: Killer Robots
          The dot on the top is American Symphony
          In both of those instances they’re comparable on one axis but not the other.
          So basically if this chart’s correct there’s definitely cause for suspicion. Moreso anyway.

          Edit: I made a typo in the data, which gave UNKNOWN: Killer Robots and UNKNOWN: Cosmic Time Machine a higher View Per Like ratio than it should have. Here’s the new chart: Like So

          The new Furthest right are now
          American Nightmare
          and
          Will & Harper

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            13 hours ago

            Damn, that is way, way bigger than I thought

            The other guy is probably right that its a case of AI fanatics using chatbots to summarise what its about without actually engaging with it in any meaningful way (liking and commenting)