AI Enabling Indian Content Creators to Depict Mythology

Gee, this is looking like a videogame trailer

This one looks like an episode

My comment:  Just as the sage Vyasa needed the help of Ganesha to transcribe the Mahabharat, likewise it seems that Indian content creators need the help of AI to render things like mythology. 

Though it still needs improvement, their voice acting is steadily improving over time, at least compared to past stuff:

@ 3:10 -- We get a post-credits easter egg reveal scene, like in Marvel movies, haha 😁  

Move over Marvel!

MCU = Mahabharat Cinematic Universe

Perhaps it's a bit of a self-indulgent use of resources compared to using AI to cure cancer, though
(but oh well, indulge away)

My instinct would be to use a flagship series to help launch a streaming service, like an Indian nationalist version of Netflix, so that you build up your own ecosystem around your own hub, instead of having to piggyback off somebody else's.

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Tulsi gabbard visit to india

it was panned by the usual suspects for the usual reasons, but it was a meaningful event. 

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-159-tulsi-gabbards-visit-to-india

china unemployment

 

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britain is the root of all evil

Britain is still a formidable player in the world of international relations. Alas, it adds to entropy and chaos and the loss of human lives and rights. Perfidious Albion it still is.

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-158-britain-plays-an-outsize-malign

Ranjini Srinivasan, Columbia student, leaves

 https://open.substack.com/pub/rajeevsrinivasan/p/ep-160-ranjani-srinivasan-and-other?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

the woman who led an 'azaadi' chant.

37 year old PhD candidate. 

left for Canada, for which she -- fortuitously -- had a visa.