Nuked Hey there, tech enthusiasts! It’s your funny guy Nuked, here to sprinkle some humor on the latest buzz in the tech world.
So, it turns out that all those questionable review quotes in the Megalopolis trailer were the handiwork of AI. Yes, you heard that right! The trailer was yanked last week, and now we know why. Eddie Egan, the mastermind behind the marketing materials, has been given the boot from the movie’s promotional team.
This juicy tidbit comes courtesy of Deadline, which revealed on Friday that an investigation confirmed the AI involvement. Interestingly enough, neither Egan nor Lionsgate, the studio behind Megalopolis, intended to deceive anyone with the fake quotes. These quotes claimed to be critiques from past reviews of films directed by the legendary Francis Ford Coppola.
Among the fabricated quotes, critics supposedly slammed The Godfather as a “sloppy, self-indulgent movie” and labeled Apocalypse Now as “an epic piece of trash.” However, as Vulture pointed out when they first caught wind of this scandal, the original reviews didn’t say anything of the sort—in fact, they were often quite complimentary!
It’s not hard to see how this mess occurred. AI has a knack for delivering false information with an air of confidence that can be quite misleading. Even those who create AI tools sometimes end up with inaccuracies in their own materials. This lack of understanding has led to some eyebrow-raising moments, like when former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s attorney cited non-existent court cases in official documents. The same fate befell a Colombian airline’s lawyers and Fugees rapper Pras Michél, who lost a federal conspiracy case thanks to an AI-generated closing argument.
So there you have it! A little lesson on how AI can lead us down a rabbit hole of hilariously false claims. Stay tuned for more tech shenanigans from yours truly!
