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[–] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago

“twice as fast and at half the cost of previous options.”

This means they are going also half the subscription cost any day now, just you wait. It will totally happen. Totally. For sure.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 66 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The big question is: Could cutting edge LMM's make Netflix content less shit?

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More likely they'll use it to make even worse content a lot faster.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I have never seen something generated by AI and thought it had any quality at all.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remember reading somewhere that Netflix produced shows needs to cater to "second monitor" usage, or passive watching. As in constantly repeating plot points, simpler plot, anything that makes it easy to follow something while doing anything else

AI slop is just another way they do it. Even better, no need to deal with pesky actor unions or production unions and other such annoying anticapitalist things.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 14 points 1 week ago

Noup, because LLMs give out avarage based on the training data. If training data is shit, like Netflix's avarage content already is, it will always give out shit.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

LMM I guess could stand for large media model.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

LLM is MLM.

[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

sorry, I should have used the predictive text spellcheck system on my google device to post

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Never in a million years. LLM shit is additive. Not subtractive.

[–] newton@feddit.online 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You guys still pay for Netflix ? 🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Heck no, when they started replacing all the decent movies with awful original content I bailed

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Shows how many people are just NPCs lol

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So evidently, people either can't tell when AI is being used or don't care when AI is being used.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don’t share viewing numbers for a reason.

We might realize we all only watch 4 shows on repeat and spend the rest of the time scrolling past all the slop.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Kind of shocking the numbers above don't say anything about viewership at all, really. Just that the titles exist somewhere.

But Facedeer is a notorious troll, so his big "gotcha" moment is apparently that people can't tell or enjoy this stuff. I doubt it. Netflix trash definitely includes $200 million blockbuster flops that nobody knows about (have you or most movie fans ever heard of Fountain of Youth?), that are getting churned out from the back catalog of Skydance, owned by the son of surveillance king Larry Ellison.

If nobody wants a Guy Ritchie heist blockbuster with John Krasinski and two Star Wars alums including Natalie Portman, who's to say they "want" anything worse from Netflix?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

his big "gotcha" moment is apparently that people can't tell or enjoy this stuff

A scam is a scam whether or not people realise it's a scam.

I actually saw Fountain of Youth. Very weird, had all the right elements, bland as fuck.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Not directly, but it'll give a sense of cheapness and sameness to their product.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didtched Netflix long before GenAI was a thing.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If only integrity and ethics were common...

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 week ago

Them lobbying the W3C to add DRM as a web standard was when I told them to FTFO and never went back.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I should get a 50% discount then.

[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

make it 100% 🏴‍☠️

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What sea do you sail? I don't want to stream, need content for my Jellyfin but don't want viruses either. Being using local library but ripping getting tiring especially with 3 free rental limit.

[–] AbKingPro@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look into the arr and usenet

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Mostly privat networks, sorry 😅

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

Glad I canceled years ago

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Netflix released 300 titles this year? Quantity over quality.

I definitely noticed it when I put on Barbie A Touch of Magic for my daughter to watch one time. The stores in the background had gibberish writing on the store fronts.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Imagine boasting that you're proudly serving slop in your restaurant