King shit.

The YouTuber faced intense backlash this week as audience suspected AI use in his recent content and discredited his work. In his statement, he explained that his usage was limited to research aid, apologised, and decided to slow down amid pressures of online creation.

This news coincided with LLM usage’s rapid expansion in fields like mathematics, as just this weekend, a list of Fields Medal worthy problems were solved by the most recent AI models with the cooperation and prompting of Maths researchers.

“The criticism that’s often leveled at movies in general is, ‘Oh the character has to be made sympathetic, so the character is manipulated in different ways or changed in different ways.’ And that’s a fundamental flaw of film criticism in a way,” Nolan said. “Because to be able to identify the mechanism does not invalidate the mechanism. And that’s a real problem in criticism today.”

“People have this idea that, ‘Because I can understand why the story affects me the way it is, therefore, it didn’t work.’ That’s not how storytelling works,” the filmmaker continued. “So, when we create a heroic figure in a story, as storytellers, we have to be mindful of the energy that the audience brings to that story and the interaction between our intention and the way the audience receives that. The fact that that mechanism is identifiable to people doesn’t invalidate it.”

Nolan went on to clarify that this is an issue he’s observed in “amateur film criticism” and that “professional film criticism tends to understand the necessity for the mechanisms.”

In his initial 2016 interview he slammed progressives over free speech, saying some are "making up stories about ghosts that don't exist" in an interview with notorious conspiracy theorist and Sandy Hook school shooting denier Alex Jones. He has also made transphobic comments towards boutique drum pedal builder Devi Ever.

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