Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership (the-independent.com)

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I want a movie about Jassy ratting out Amodei to the feds

Right after taking part of restricting Fable etc?

Oh so there will be a sequel!

There is clearly a church-and-state issue with tech platforms owning studios. On the other hand, they have the cash. Not sure how we solve this without directly plumbing the cash to independent studios through a tax on tech funding a subsidy on independent studios.

Does Amazon likely have the power to hold this up indefinitely or will it easily be moved to another studio?

Amazon can't bury it without alienating Luca Guadagnino. Instead they are allowing anyone else publish it. Maybe A24 will want it, it is screening well.

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Honestly not that big of a loss. Even if it’s Sam Altman being an ass the entire movie, it still wouldn’t be a good film because it’s about a wet blanket.

He’s not Steve Jobs or something. It’d be about as interesting as a Jeff Bezos film. Nobody cares.

Amazon is actually much more reasonable than the headline makes it seem:

    > “We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker — not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” a spokesperson for Amazon said to Variety in a statement. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”

Well, yeah, I kind of agree. Amazon probably shouldn't be the one producing the film, and it sounds like they're working to get the rights sold to someone else.

The headline also sucks because "after" means "months after with no evidence that it's related". It's just clickbait all around.

Stuff like that happens in every oligarchy.

Either get used to more and more stuff like that, or regulate the sh* out of it. Without stopping stuff like that early on, the concentration of wealth and power only increases.