{"id":21823,"date":"2026-02-03T00:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/requiem-for-a-film-maker-darren-aronofskys-ai-revolutionary-war-series-is-a-horror\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:37:16","slug":"requiem-for-a-film-maker-darren-aronofskys-ai-revolutionary-war-series-is-a-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/requiem-for-a-film-maker-darren-aronofskys-ai-revolutionary-war-series-is-a-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky\u2019s AI revolutionary war series is a horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine\u2019s YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn\u2019t fully understand how the present works yet \u2013 then you will be presented with something that many believe represents the vanguard of entertainment as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>On This Day \u2026 1776 is a series of short videos depicting America\u2019s revolutionary war. What makes On This Day notable is that it was made by Darren Aronofsky\u2019s studio Primordial Soup. What also makes it interesting is that it was created with AI. The third thing that makes it interesting is that it is terrible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/feb\/02\/darren-aronofsky-ai-revolutionary-war-series-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/66212a4958657e90c4eca157c59803f40f28a75d\/388_0_1317_1054\/master\/1317.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=50d1a81cbe4665466bb7975c4b78bd69\" title=\"Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky\u2019s AI revolutionary war series is a horror\" \/>The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series<br \/>\nIf you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine\u2019s YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn\u2019t fully understand how the present works yet \u2013 then you will be presented with something that many believe represents the vanguard of entertainment as we know it.<br \/>\nOn This Day \u2026 1776 is a series of short videos depicting America\u2019s revolutionary war. What makes On This Day notable is that it was made by Darren Aronofsky\u2019s studio Primordial Soup. What also makes it interesting is that it was created with AI. The third thing that makes it interesting is that it is terrible. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series If you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine\u2019s YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn\u2019t fully understand how the present works yet \u2013 then you &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/requiem-for-a-film-maker-darren-aronofskys-ai-revolutionary-war-series-is-a-horror\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky\u2019s AI revolutionary war series is a horror<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}