• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    That’s probably the one area where he comes off most as a douche. He’s notoriously demanding to work with

    He also, earlier on, had a history of less safe practices

    But I’d put him as one of the few wealthy people that actually created something others can’t. His movies are a creation of his own. Not the result of inevitable scientific advancement

    OpenAI/ChatGPT was the result inevitable scientific advancement. The game changer was a publicly published academic paper (by a Google researcher), not anything Sam Altman or OpenAI did. Same can be said about a lot of modern products that created our wealthiest billionaires

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      6 days ago

      His movies are a creation of his own. Not the result of inevitable scientific advancement

      Are you seriously claiming that Cameron made his movies without scientific advancements? Cameron used the result of hundreds of technical advancements and patents in order to make his movies. He didn’t invent movie-making.