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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026, dir Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell) (www.youtube.com)
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A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1596335-the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago

"China", "South Korea", "Russia"

You forgot "USA", e.g. Palantir.

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    [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Thank you for your rigorous scientific studying stranger

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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)

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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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    • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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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    • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Obligatory link to the previous thread

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    What the fuck is this, Pets Dot Com, the musical?

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Well this is out now, and I'm surprised to announce the ratings went down from 7.5 from 7.1 on imdb and only 60/100 on Metacritic, though there are only 9 critic reviews and 5 user reviews, which itself is surprising for being so little. Rotten Tomatoes is higher, but only 38 critic reviews and over 50 ratings. I'm surprised it seems to be so unpopular, I thought it'd be blowing up with hundreds of ratings

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    yeah this is the bad one. The good one is Ghost In The Machine.

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