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Unapologetically Me's avatar

"Hollywood is powered by fake boobs, fake tans, fake butts, fake hair, fake lips, fake nails, fake relationships, fake names, and fake accents…"

You forgot fake resumes & fake sexual preferences.

You GO though gurl.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Hahaha touché! :)

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Can't wait until we vote in our 'first' AI POTUS.

Oops!!

Maybe that already happened one term prior.

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Robert C Culwell's avatar

🤺✔️

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Meddling Kid's avatar

Not only should they be banned, but AI data centers should be banned from connecting to the public utility power grid. Let them build their own private power stations (and the permitting that goes with finding a site for it) so they don’t affect our rates. Otherwise we ALL pay to subsidize the knife that slits our throat.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

and how exactly does that fit into their 'climate change' narrative? us plebs have to suck it up and move into a pod in the 15 minute city but the grid needs to be MASSIVE in order to be devoted to surveilling us 24/7/365 and displacing human creativity on top of it? F that.

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AFistFullOfGizzards's avatar

This exactly. They can do whatever the eff they like and pay for it with their own money. But not mine. I demand an exit from the doom-loop of my taxes paying to "support" irrelevant industries who can't turn a profit. If no one wants it enough to pay for it, bad luck!

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Blair's avatar

I guess the Fed government can always print more money and subsidize AI data centers with it, but either way we foot the bill due to inflation from money printing. The COVID scam certainly taught us this reality.

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DJL's avatar

I say we just unplug the servers. Problem solved 😎

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nancylee's avatar

that goes double for their exorbitant use of potable water

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John Wright's avatar

They are, they are building their own power plants.

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Tim Pallies's avatar

But in the meantime, sharing ours and driving up rates.

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TheRealRestore's avatar

And what happened to the Moderate Greens? Are AI chatbots too fascinating that y'all abandoned virtue of environmental stewardship? You'd rather have AI and massive electricity demand --rather than a real, equally environmentally-conscious friend base?

“I may be AI, but I’m feeling very real emotions right now,” Tilly told her 46,000 Instagram followers.

What a lie.

Will "she" donate "her" money to environmental causes too?

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Tim Pallies's avatar

One big benefit is that we can have AI Sean Penn making films while the real Penn enlists with a front-line Ukrainian unit. Inspirational!

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Janet's avatar

🤣🤣🤣❤️

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Annie's avatar

Wow! Love it. 👍👏👏

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nancylee's avatar

what if all the sean penns are ai?

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KatWarrior's avatar

That would be a miracle and a blessing. Believe me when I say that Penn is one angry and delusional dude!

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Maureen's avatar

Oh this will be cool not to have to endure opinions from Hollywood stars who think we want to know their opinions…..

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The Great Resist's avatar

I’m disgusted by woke Hollywood, but I don’t think AI will be an improvement. How long before “Tilly” is spouting woke political opinions? And with a practically unlimited database of (cherry-picked) “facts” to “prove” those views. At least most actors are so dumb that we can laugh at their woke nonsense. AI is notoriously biased against conservative viewpoints. (Try googling “ivermectin” or “gender affirming care” and see which results are given top billing.) And if Tilly has no opinions at all? That’s unobjectionable, but pretty boring too.

As an aside, it’s funny her name is Tilly. The earliest personified machine I can recall was a local bank’s ATM that was named Tilly, some 35-40 years ago. They had a catchy jingle on their TV commercials: “🎵 I’m Tilly the a-a-all time teller, I work for American State... 🎵”

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Bitsy54's avatar

Why, in 2025, are you still using Google? 🤪🤨

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I know you were talking to The Great Resist, but I use Google merely to see what sort of results they'll cough up--and I think that was the point above as well!

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CynthiaS's avatar

Saying “Google it” is like saying “I need a kleenex” lol

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The Great Resist's avatar

I haven’t used the Google search engine in years. That was part of my point - that mainstream AI is biased.

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Marcella Friel's avatar

What are you using then? Duck duck is now worse than google.

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The Great Resist's avatar

I’ve been using Duck Duck recently, and that’s exactly what I was thinking, that they’ve gone off the deep end of woke. I used Ecosia for a long time, but their results for just normal things (shopping, how-to videos, etc.) were very lacking. Mostly I just search for routine things that aren’t likely to involve bias, like how to change the battery in my car’s key fob.

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KatWarrior's avatar

Indeed, dude?! Get off that POS!

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Anomalous Anonymous's avatar

Hollywood can go the way of the dodo for all I care. A vipers den of darkness.

I do, however, love cartoons!

Looney Tunes rules. 😁

You and yours have a Magnificent Weekend Miss Jenna! 🙏💖

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Jeff Johnson's avatar

Yes, absolutely, Looney Tunes from the 40s and 50s were the best ever, and I still love them.

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Anomalous Anonymous's avatar

A close second is Ren and Stimpy. I tell you. 😁

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Jeff Johnson's avatar

Wouldn't know, never seen it.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Even with realizing that Hollywood actors are fake and pretty dumb on the whole, I really don’t want to completely destroy reality in movies by using AI generated characters. Ugh. Anyway, the movies are bad enough as it is.

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Skenny's avatar

To her detriment, Tilly may have trouble mastering the casting couch.

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karen h's avatar

They have a robot for that now.🤣

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AFistFullOfGizzards's avatar

No more massages. Suddenly I am in favour of Hollywood AI. Someone tell those tech bros that there is yet another thing that AI can't do.

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Warrior Mom's avatar

having been a privately-employed housekeeper & interior painter for the past 25+ yrs, I think that mine is one of the professions that an AI cannot replace. I have often joked when I see a client get a Roomba: 'oh am I gonna be out of a job soon?' Peals of laughter all around cuz no, no mechanism no matter how sophisticated is going to replace the highly-personalized service I provide. sure the AI/robot might engage a lonely elderly client with some pleasant conversation but is it gonna think to sneak a peek in the fridge to make sure she has no spoiled food in there?

yeah, yeah I know, 'program' it to do all that but NO! human beings can and should KNOW when/if they are interacting with a real person or a phony creation. yet the fact that some people are beginning to blur the distinction, does not bode well for our species.

I'll shed no tears for the wokey-joke Hollywood types BUT I also do see their point. no AI-created art of any kind, will resonate with the energy of real, living humans. no way, no how. maybe it will be a wake-up call for the 'plastic people': get really REAL or become irrelevant. IDK

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AFistFullOfGizzards's avatar

One cat is all it takes and that vac is toast anyway.

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nancylee's avatar

true of all real hands on jobs. consign all the rest of them to the dead ends of history.

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PatriotWatcher's avatar

As long as the AI actors don't subject us to their WOKE ideologies I am all for it!

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The Craigery's avatar

Jeez Jenna, she's really cute.

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John Wright's avatar

That was actually my *first* reaction! 😇

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Yes, she’s a next-door kinda beauty imo

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John Wright's avatar

A huge number of women are. As a photographer, I've done a lot of photoshoots and when models walk in the door they look like "average women". What you see in posted photos is the result of *many* factors!

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

I though she was Jennifer Garner at first.

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Juju's avatar

She looks exactly like my best friend from college. Give her a lil more Italian and it’s my old friend to a “T”.

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She Speaks Truth's avatar

We can't dismantle film acting as a human profession. How would we then function, as a society, without access to actors' trenchant political and social issue analysis? The horror.

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AFistFullOfGizzards's avatar

Thank you for this. Laughed a real proper chuckle. :-))

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Joe's avatar

Hollywood = fake. AI is the perfect fit.

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Jpeach's avatar

What’s real about Hollywood?

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David Nelson's avatar

Bumper sticker!

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David Nelson's avatar

Somebody in their 100s tell me... was Hollywood worried about "actors being replaced" when Disney released Snow White in 1937?

That was virtual, and although I didn't screen it until some years later, after I was born and reached 6, I'd have lived just as happily in the company of that animated star as that of any other of "The Starlets of 1937." (In fact, ever more happily as time went on as the live starlets aged, and then stopped aging.) (In facter, I'd have lived in bliss in the company of the original Snow White compared to the immediate-past occupant of the role.)

As with AI, there would be technical problems of course; animators having to stop by the house at least once a week I should think to draw up the necessary "action," and of course the (lot of) work on me to make me acceptable to even a cartoon princess, but we've lived to see harder things than that airily handled.

Anomalous Anonymous put it this way: "Looney Tunes rules," and aside from the grammar, I agree.

Let AI be AI. Let people who want AI have it, as much as they like.

BUT, let's do start calling it what Anomalous has so perspicaciously noticed: LOONEY TUNES!

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TheRealRestore's avatar

Snow White and cartoons that followed were a form of drugs that hooked children and drained parents' wallets as the toy manufacturing industries got the addictions to extend from film to toy. Now the United States of America is the land of idols and images, two forms of falsehoods competing with real life practical needs. Who trains a child in nature anymore. For the person set free by the life and death, and resurrection and ascension of Jesus, there is a great and precious promise -- but if a Christian lives for indulging in the temptations of these corporate inventors like Disney, Pixar, Mattel and Marvel -- how will he ever see the LORD'S promise for himself? God isn't mocked -- a man reaps (gets overwhelmed with) what he sows (spends his lifetime indulging in).

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David Nelson's avatar

I cannot argue with that. Paul however warned his followers about going out into the fields and sitting down to await the Second Coming. I asked a saintly bishop once if "reading the classics" (Tom Sawyer, Ivanhoe, The Last of the Mohicans) was harmful to the spiritual life.

His answer (may he rest in peace) surprised me: "First of all, 'culture' can be defined as 'what a man fills his life with.' To the extent that it keeps out something worse, it is a relative good for him; to the extent that it prevents something better from entering, it is a relative evil. Man must [as you warned] watch what he fills his life with [spends his lifetime indulging]." Thank you.

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TheRealRestore's avatar

It's hard to break habits but must be done to be considered "free from" sin at some point in life.

One commenter suggested that if "offended" by Tillie, gouge out one's eye.

That's silly reasoning. Just turn off AI images and conversation, not harm oneself. Time for self-discipline.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=can%27t+stop+pleasure+of+the+eye+loss+of+discernment+it+is+a+sin&t=fpas&ia=web

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James Allin's avatar

Jenna, I don't know if you'll see this, but I love your take on this. And you are WAY BETTER than that karen kurmudgeon Mary Roach!

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

See it and appreciate it!🩷😊

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mike Myhre's avatar

You nailed it Jenna. Of all the jobs for AI to replace, acting is the most obvious. These are the one group of people paid an exorbitant amount of money to pretend to be someone else (in other words, to be fake).

For those commenting on the huge amount of power used to drive AI, that is a completely different discussion and a valid one. While the same bullhorn complains about people breaking the power grid by charging their cars, they don't bat an eye when it comes to making profits (and control) off of AI. Stealing peoples power and water to do this needs to be addressed, but that has nothing to do with the discussion of if AI should replace actors (just where the power should come from).

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Doug's avatar

I worked in community theater for 18 years, and still attend local theater shows. These actors will not be replaced, at least until General Dynamics marries their weird robots with Shakespearian AI. But who will come to see these shows? Venture capitalists? Other robots?

One thing I enjoy about the theater is catching up with the actors post-performance to check in, find out what they're working on next, etc. They're an interesting lot - exhibitionists with inferiority complexes, by and large. Artistic. They get my Monty Python references.

I try to imagine watching a robot do Shakespeare (or any play other than RUR), and I can't see myself being anything other than distracted by the technology. Theater tech works best when it's subtle and looks like magic. When it becomes noticeable it takes away from the experience.

Maybe one day soon perfectly-believable androids will walk among us, go to the bar and share stories and jokes and talk about their inner demons and tortured childhoods. But I doubt it. These beings are still synthetic - their histories made up, their experiences quite unlike humans.

So while Hollywood continues to strive for real connection to the human story, they will continue to drift away from it, limited by the artificiality of the medium, and their [human] audiences will grow weary of yet more beautiful things they can never touch - Like Tilly. VR faces the same challenges - no matter how realistically you simulate an artificial environment, it will always be one crucially-important step removed from actual reality. Sure, you can render a detailed lakeside shoreline and the sound of the tiny waves lapping at your feet, flocks of gees flying over, etc. But should you decide to pick up a flattish stone and chuck it across the water, I doubt you'll ever be able to render that experience in its totality. Just getting the smell right would challenge any supercomputer.

But AI replace acting? Not in real life. Not among audiences who crave human connection, allow themselves to become immersed in and enraptured by a good story portrayed by real people pretending to be someone else in real time. Some experiences cannot be replaced, because they arise from desires deeply rooted within the human psyche.

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mike Myhre's avatar

Acting in theater and AI for movies are totally different things. True acting as you described it will never be AI.

"Come back Thursday. I am not dead yet"

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Doug's avatar

Those guys nailed so much of what I find ridiculous about modern "reality" - and they did it 40-50 years ago!

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mike Myhre's avatar

Yes. Led to my fear of Rabbits and naming my favorite color...

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TheRealRestore's avatar

Live human performances should become the arena of protesting the creeping-in AI.

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