Hey, he’s famous, show some respect! Everything he says is sacred and has to be cherished. If we stop listening to celebrities how would majority of people form opinions about anything? You expect them to read a book or something?

This is reason number #42 why Lemmy > Reddit. The amount of posts about celebrity opinions on random subjects is staggering, then months later that celebrity is in some controversy and Reddit comments are shocked.

Reddit really had its “mom” moment around the time enshittification hit peak levels.

Celebrity gossip bullshit is everywhere - confessional posts about the details of peoples’ lives.

Ugh. Garbage. Fucking garbage. Nothing is about anything. Just a bunch of poorly socialized narcissists vomitting up their feelings into the void for validation.

www.creatorscoalitionai.com

He is the founder of the creators coalition. which wants to be the industry’s voice at the table, calling for fair compensation, job protections and deepfake guardrails. The coalition’s signatories are a who’s who of Hollywood, with supporters including Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart, Ben Affleck and Octavia Spencer.

Ben Affleck is also an actor. A very successful one and he owned an ai company.

Cool.

Again though: him being an actor doesnt make him right and it doesnt make him wrong. An arguments merits are in the argument.

If he was an expert on the topic it would be reasonabke to give his arguments more weight because of that - he is not though.

To be clear: his arguments shiuld be judged on their own merits, not weighted one way or the other because of his profession.