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A Flop at the Chinese Box Office Shows AI Still Has a Tough Road Ahead in Theaters — "Sanxingdui: Future Past," a fully AI-generated film, made just $181K in its opening weekend on a $1.5M budget (www.indiewire.com)
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[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago

How the fuck did they spend $1.5M on an entirely AI movie?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Pay a team of 15 people 100k to produce content for you

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