Saving Walt Disney
S3E2: Stop Walt from smoking! Out on Monday 13 May
In Monday’s PastMaster we’re joined by the marvellous Em McGowan, founder and host of film podcast Verbal Diorama.
Verbal Diorama’s Em McGowan: on a mission to save Disney
She’s on a mission to help Walt Disney kick the smoking habit early on and prolong his life and influence.
Will she succeed and avert the dreaded ‘Disney Dark Ages’ of the 70s and 80s? Will Walt instead become obsessed by her Fitbit and abandon filmmaking altogether? Or will he take Disney on a darker route into Egyptian horror?
Tune in to find out. The episode drops on Monday 13 May.
AI in the news
Paintings purported to be by Monet and Renoir are among those recently identified by AI as fakes.
The paintings, for sale on eBay, were spotted by Dr Carina Popovici, a specialist in authenticating artwork, who has started using AI to help her investigations. It turns out there are fakes for sale “all over the place”, she says.
How strange that AI, a technology associated with creating imitations, may also hold the key to identifying manmade counterfeits.
A word about Claude
‘GameMaster Claude’ corrupts mischievous young nobleman Nick Horseman
It’ll be a few episodes before we get to the Claude section of PastMaster Season 3, but I assure you it’s worth the wait.
I know that ‘personality’ is an illusion with AI, but based on our experience so far, GPT is like the detail obsessed big sister who organises the house party and will call your parents if anything gets out of hand, while Claude is the loose cannon who turns up drunk, tells an inappropriate dirty story and then downs a bottle of vodka and trashes the place before passing out in the corner.
Until next time, Tan & the PastMaster crew
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