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[–] 43 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What a coincidence, I also cancelled Netflix this year, after over 10+ years with them.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    Join the party. I think their algorithm finally figured out I wouldn’t watch slop long before AI and so I rarely ever got suggested any of their new releases. It would just show the same suggestions over and over with one new show or movie every couple months.

    I went to Apple TV and haven’t been able to keep up with their new shows. I’m sure it’ll be garbage eventually and I’ll drop it when the quality drops.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'll continue to use free sources like the public library. Fuck Netflix.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The "quality" of the content should have been a clue here.

    Vote with your wallet. So far *no one *is. It's maddening.

    (Yes, I know, you did. If you're about to comment that you did you aren't the intended audience of this comment.)

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  • [+] -15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's dope that artists can flesh out their worlds better and make higher quality content for less money. I think the viewers will benefit if the creativity and direction remains human as it is now

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    [–] 65 points 3 months ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    I once saw a yakuza hitman killed, and then reborn as his arch nemesis' son. It was the ultimate revenge because he had full access to the breasts of the wife of his nemesis.

    Absolutely hilarious. Not sure if it would have been made without AI being accessible.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    “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.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    I should get a 50% discount then.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Netflix released 300 titles this year? Quantity over quality.

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I didtched Netflix long before GenAI was a thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago

    It was always going to be the case that AI additions to media would eventually be unnoticed, it not being declared beforehand out of fear that it will lead to negative reactions is the very telling point.

    People care if it's used, and those who want to profit from its use by removing artists and other workers know that they can't profit if we know it's there.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    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?

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  • [+] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago

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

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Ooh wow, technology is being used to replace humans by a big tech company! Who could have ever seen that happening? /s

    I do my bestest to avoid the big tech companies of the US.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    This why I like CBC Gem and Knowledge dot ca more!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    And they wonder why less people are watching stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Netflix: The future is slop so get used to it.

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