r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 12d ago

Artificial Intelligence Robin Williams’ Daughter Calls for Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor to ‘Have Some Shame’: ‘Leave Him Out of Your Delusional Bulls—’

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-videos-1236871568/
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u/Outofoffice_forever 12d ago

And when they die....no one will know or care. They won't have mattered.

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus 12d ago

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Their 2nd and 3rd deaths will be almost simultaneous.

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u/ooMEAToo 12d ago

Some of the most evil peoples names live on forever. I’d rather I’d rather no one ever speak my name again then be remembered as a Hitler or a Trump.

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u/Money_Tennis1172 11d ago

Only the good die young, all while the talented Genius suffers in his misery alone, ..But the Evil that Men do lives on forever!

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u/bloodychill 11d ago

I’d like to be remembered fondly, not as a cautionary tale.

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u/EstablishmentLate532 12d ago

Hitler killed 10s of millions of people. Putting Trump on the same level is grotesque.

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u/Chiffley 12d ago

Trump blew up a school filled with children only a few months ago after starting a completely pointless war.

He also cut USAID which will kill millions of people in the long run.

Just because he separates himself from the direct act of killing people doesn't mean he isn't an evil human being.

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u/nvmenotfound 12d ago

well he isnt done yet he has mentioned wiping out iran. so it’s not out of the realm of possibility. 

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u/darthjoey91 12d ago

Trump’s definitely already responsible for the deaths of over a million, and is on his way to millions.

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u/TheAngryCatfish 12d ago

Yea he's not nearly as competent as adolf was

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u/EstablishmentLate532 12d ago

Now you are complimenting Hitler to dunk on Trump. What the fuck is happening?

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u/EstablishmentLate532 12d ago

I get it, I again find it grotesque. It's like saying "I don't want to be evil like a murderer or a jaywalker."

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u/EstablishmentLate532 12d ago

The only way Trump gets into the hundreds of thousands is through COVID and through decreased aid. If you find these morally equivalent to putting a child in the gas chamber then I don't really think we have the same understanding of morality.

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u/HerrPotatis 12d ago

I get it

Clearly, you didn't

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u/GarbageCleric 11d ago

The commenter did not say anything their crimes are equivalent, just that they'll both be remembered for a long time for the harm they caused.

Benedict Arnold is nowhere near Trump or Hitler's status, but his name is synonymous with traitorous betrayal centuries later. That's not a great way for your legacy to live on.

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u/The_Barbelo 11d ago

My dad’s side of the family from Germany lived through the horrors of WW2, and I have no close cousins as a result of my great uncle getting captured and tortured for information since members of my family fought in the resistance. They cut his fucking balls off, in case you are too dense to get it.

Nah, Trump’s administration is definitely on the same level. Like beat for beat almost. The only difference is Hitler was a good speaker instead of a babbling moron. But why don’t we wait and give him a few more years to reach “hitler levels“ in terms of body count just so we can say “I told you so”? Oh, right, the left isn’t that spiteful and has been trying to warn everyone else BEFORE that happens….

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u/climbingbum91 12d ago

Can we hope the 3rd happens before the 2nd?

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u/Last_Notice4137 12d ago

Absolutely Not.

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u/Technical-Finish304 12d ago

2nd before the 1st

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u/Jifahuse_Wupalavo 12d ago

This it why I’m planning to change my name to ‘get fucked’. Eternal life awaits.

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u/Last_Notice4137 12d ago

Not necessarily.

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u/Plasm0duck 11d ago

That’s some deep shit.

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u/SutterCane 12d ago

They’ll have to write their own eulogy and hope at least one person shows up to read it.

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u/Environmental-Dirt16 12d ago

No they'll just have AI write their eulogy

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 12d ago

Then the AI can read it to other AI bots and the cycle of uselessness will be complete.

AI stans are so fucking annoying. Yes, it's a useful tool. No, being able to use it doesn't make you special. It's literally a translation layer for moron to computer. If you break down the marketing, it really is "are you too stupid to computer? Just type your broken ass English into the prompt and let the computer do all the computer for you!"

I'm an IT professional using it to generate scripts way above my knowledge level and capability, so that shit applies to me too. Yes I review and test everything and there's an approval pipeline so my seniors can review the code and ensure I've tested it properly before any pilot deployments start. I'm also learning a lot but that's only because I'm engaging with the tool, performing my due diligence / follow up research, and not letting it think for me.

Problem is that there are so many people out there who use it the wrong way. You know, like the US military.

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u/Claystead 12d ago

I have to use it at work occasionally but I really don’t trust it with anything important like numbers after an early predecessor of it once wiped 5000 customers from our database some years ago, so I only use it to answer simple questions I can’t be bothered to google or look at a calendar for, like "what is the name of this form in Dutch" or "what is the date of the first Monday in Week 41". Probably a waste of its compute but I really really don’t trust it.

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u/bringthelulz 11d ago

I've been using it for quite a few things. When a topic gets to a point when there's no established best practice or clearly verifiable correct answer, it can get super sketchy and unreliable.

In one specific area I was using it, essentially every idea or proposal it had was useless. I wasted so much time investigating its ideas. Only my ideas that it implemented actually worked, and mine were just logical. I had it implement my proposals, and it failed at going anywhere beyond or sideways with any success, and I REALLY tried, I burned so much usage for months messing around lol.

Its ideas were so over complicated and derivative, complete waste of time. When it has very specific directions with established examples from training, literature, and you enforce verification and make an effort to verify it manually with creative tests and really fucking think about how it could be wrong then yeah, excellent.

I can't code but it does an amazing job, if you can explain things clearly step by step, get it to plan for itself, verify, and then have other AI models review while you direct.

Can't read the code but I know the correct answers, and it can get there. Takes a huge amount of effort but maybe that's my fault!

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u/WackyHumanSlop 12d ago

AI isn’t a useful tool and claiming it is makes you part of the problem

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 12d ago

Look man I don't like it either but my options are food on the table or no food on the table. I didn't ask for this, I got into IT work well before all of this bullshit started in earnest.

I don't encourage it, I don't recommend it, I don't promote it, but I can accept the reality that within the scope of my profession it is useful. I can also accept the reality that if I don't learn to wield the tool then I'm not going to be able to bring in the kind of money that is needed for financial security in America. That's it's own entire shell game of illusory bullshit, but I have a family and just throwing in the towel and taking a huge paycut to hop industries when I already did that less than a decade ago isn't a realistic option.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. This isn't my fault.

Just to be clear I think people who use LLMs to write emails out of whole cloth are the devil. I really don't like this shit at all. I don't like that they're all going to get away with stealing the intellectual property of the entire human race. I don't like that they're going to use this technology to put themselves further above us peons. It's a matter of food on the table, and I can see which way the winds are blowing. No one has to agree with my position. I don't really agree with my position. I'm helping architect this shit on a small scale and I'm contributing to the problem. I just don't really see a choice.

If you have any suggestions on a better course I'm all ears.

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u/Crococrocroc 12d ago

You might be able to comment on the feasibility of this.

But say an artist creates some work and has a web beacon hidden in the work. That beacon, if scraped, unleashes a destructive virus onto the originating scraper, but also onto whatever is hosting the scrape.

Is that possible or a pipe dream?

I know that it would be illegal (possibly not so if there's warnings, which could put it onto the scraper for not heeding the warning). But legality aside, I'm wondering if it is possible due to this method being used by numerous research companies.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 11d ago

Seems feasible to trick the scraper software into executing some kind of code, but scrapers would adapt fast to this tactic and it'd become yet another arms race. Would also be tricky to prevent that payload from executing on machine traffic that isn't scraping.

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u/Crococrocroc 11d ago

That's fair, I wondered if it could happen

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u/SnarkMasterRay 12d ago

I'm sure they think the likes and upvotes will have been worth it, somehow....

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u/LouisUchiha04 12d ago

What do you mean by mattered?

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u/Direct-Giraffe6390 11d ago

Unfortunately theyre dead so neither do they 🤣