According to the publication, Hugh joked that the reason he took on the role came down to his five children. "I slightly hate [making films], but I have lots of children and need money," he said.
Man has a net worth of $150,000,000, he can afford to be picky about the movies he appears in.
He was huge for a good 10-15 years. And when you have money it is easy to make money passively. So he has had decent investments and a solid A list career with backends for probably 30 years now.
Everyone hates working and wants money. He isn’t being picky he’s making a joke. A few million for a few days of work as a mostly computer generated character is an easy choice.
It the movie sucks it won’t hurt his career at all.
This seems more like what some stereotypes about the areas are. I doubt the AI really had much information about what Europeans, specifically, think about Americans. Most Europeans have rough ideas of rural VS urban America and northern VS southern.
The amount of finessing you’d have to do to get pictures looking like this. Most of the “I asked AI what insert thing looks like” posts are pretty disingenuous. You have to do some quality prompting and then usually some cleanup with masking.
This seems more like the author’s idea of what europeans might think but it is actually just a US citizen’s stereotyped ideas of the people in each state.
I worry that Buzzfeed’s meaningless AI regurgitation is what most of the internet will look like in 10 years. Ask an AI for its take on an already silly question (Europe is large and diverse) which it is patently unqualified to answer. Maybe ask in English for good measure, guaranteeing further bias. Then take the meanest, most body-shaming and stereotyped answers and post them straight to the website, with a disclaimer that the assholery therein isn’t your assholery, it’s the AI’s assholery.
It really feels like a scene from Idiocracy, but with the dysgenics replaced by AI.
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