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Full doc title: “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”

Per wiki:

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell. It is produced by the Academy Award-winning teams behind Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang) and Navalny (Shane Boris and Diane Becker).

What to say here? This is a doc being produced by the producer and one of the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once, who notably have been making efforts to, uh, negotiate? I guess? with AI companies vis a vis making movies. Anyway the title is a piece of shit and this trailer makes it look like this is just critihype the movie. I guess we’ll hear more about it in the coming month.

Really interesting framing this as brought about by thinking about the director’s child, given Yud’s recent comments about how one should raise a daughter if you had certain beliefs about AI.

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Timnit briefly weighs in about being included in the doc, apparently she regrets it and says the filmmakers "sprinkle some [AI skeptics] in like chocolate chips to perform ethics".

She also calls Yud a eugenicist cult leader with nothing to show for.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 2 points 14 hours ago

Damn, she went in on Yud (not that he doesn’t deserve it)

I also found this article about the doc in the replies of that post https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/ and it’s a very interesting read

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 23 hours ago

"[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction"

I mean, that could be anyone.