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Director Gore Verbinksi and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirical sci-fi film.
I really liked this one. I think I really could see our current ai in the antagonist:
“I think that it’s inherited our worst attributes,” said Verbinski of the film’s AI antagonist. “It’s much, much worse than wanting to kill humans. It wants us to like it. It demands that we like it. I think part of that has to do with being tasked in its formative years to keep us engaged. A lot of people talk about, what is AI doing to us? But there’s not a lot of conversations about what we’re doing to it. This entity being born, it’s being tied and bound and manipulated and told, ‘Let’s look at the humans and what do they want, what do they need? What do they respond to most? What do they hate?’ All those things are going to be hardwired into its source code. It’s going to have mommy issues, we’re going to have to put it on a couch.”
much worse than wanting to kill humans. It wants us to like it. It demands that we like it
Sounds similar to AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, except ofc it wanted to maximally torture humans in the way they would least like, forever. Kind of worse, really.




