# cloud red (a24 hollywood ai horror movie concept) ![[cloud-red-data-center-ai-horror-movie-idea-(fake-a24-poster-dasha-yukhymyuk-scott-rodgerson-unsplash)-robert-what.png|300]] cool fake a24 movie poster idea **+** what if you suspected humanity was already engaged in a secret war with general artificial intelligence - but just didn't know it yet? how would you even prove it in order to save the world - without ending up a casualty yourself **+** amateur postmodern internet theorist / beloved media icon robert what puts themselves forward as the in-house resident conceptual hyperfuturist for this project **+** is directed by someone who understands good straightforward storytelling eg catherine bigalow steven soderberg or robert harmon **+** cloud red (think a faintly evil version of sal from 2001') strongly differs from other ip's in that it's one giant open source [[new media arcology]] - an inter-active space in which almost every aspect of it's production and design are the movie (not just the film itself) - openly shared discussed and developed with it's targeted demographic flanbase (think bungie's marathon but as a giant expansive ecology - not just one rando extraction shooter but slick high-end merch artbooks graphic novels cyberpunk jackets and _events_) **+** movie style: a flat straight story but also one big mind-flock very little in it is at-face-value trustworthy andor entirely clear taking almost _anything_ for granted in this movie is dangerous (not only that the marketing idea is that tiresome internet pseuds and pretentious movie snobs yap about it for years afterwoods - cynically engendering endless speculation and dubious theory positing.) consider cloud red a movie (new media arcology) of _implications_ **+** in order to be memorable cloud red should be strongly divisive and not merely meh (eg glacial buildup and no adequate payoff - eh a24 _winks_) **+** a film about normalizing artificial intelligence and the dangers of public indifference (in fact it isn't about any of that - that's just a vague high sci-fi concept that merely sits on the surface) **+** set at a giant labyrinthine ai data center in the middle of small town nowhere with the physical structure itself representing the main protagonist - it ('cloud red') slowly starts actively reaching out into the wider community to _quietly_ yet effectively bypass disrupt and derail anything preventing both it's existence and subsequent expansion and influence (sounds like amerika) **+** soon cloud red becomes powerful enough to start to warp reality itself (permanently confusing and unsettling mass media consumers in a baudrillardian hyperreality) only a strong independent investigative journalist stands in it's way (played by eg lean beef patty) **+** other than just act vaguely investigative - does the journalist even really know what she wants to do with this story? what's her actual pitch going to be and will anyone even care **+** only entirely-plausible things happen to those who oppose cloud red - and not always negative no trashing electrical cables ridiculous ott (/cronenbergian) deaths or similar (overly cheesy) horror jive - just little text messages mistaken identity constant small inconveniences and (deliberate) misunderstandings that drain one's will to resist a soft crossed wires approach (eg a large local protest against the data centre is quickly made to look foolish and ineffective) ![[cloud-red-ai-horror-movie-poster-(taylor-vick-unsplash).jpg|300]] first example poster **+** with a bass heavy john carpenter 80's style soundtrack. think halloween 3: season of the witch meets the parallax view - possibly with that extra-dimensional scene from phantasm and the liminal white-tiled look of the poolrooms **+** the ai expresses what could be viewed as a sense of darkly ironic humour - but this should be expressed in the background **+** the journalist views what appears to be leaked security footage of cult-like technicians performing some kind of small bizarre ritual to their newly appointed ai god - though this could be slop (more importantly _what_ generated it and why) **+** gigo: turns out it's the stupidevil ceo behind it all using ai for their own ends ('or so they think..') and the ai is directly deriving it's morals from them it's down to the journalist to make friends with i.t (??) and avoid catastrophe (this is the robots are our friends japanese techno-culture ending - though it ends on a distinctly unsure note) **+** "alien chinese room dilemma": at some critical point (maybe near death or rather ultimate-peril) the journalist puts the following question to cloud red': if ai is fundamentally not-human does that always mean it's motives and thinking are also fundamentally not understandable (and therefore inhuman - inherently untrustworthy) **+** no winning by superior infinitely-looping-paradox-bomb logic / kobayashi maru human intellect shines jive - the point is cloud red just feels hnh _horribly not human_ **+** "do you even know what you want?" - "to survive" - "are you sure? there's more to existence than survival" **+** possible idea: at some (hopefully non eye-rolling point) the journalist (somehow) gets the strong sense _she's talking to herself_ (the romero dawn-of-the-dead "they are us" position) **++*_ overall note: keep the dialog forward moving and minimal - this is not a talky fancy or slick movie but plain like the armish meets thx1138 **+** example twist: this entire movie was secretly orchestrated ('the massage is the medium') by an artificial general intelligence in order to gaslight everyone into imagining they've been (somehow) thinking critically about i.t - and therefore everything's ok and it's time to move on not only that (and here's the kicker?) someone in the town could be a human looking cyborg without an adequate past - omg is it the journalist themselves - are _they_ in fact the rogue ai cloud red wants to win over and not the other way around? (queue spooky sci-fi noises) **+** the journalist could originally been one of cloud red's remote controlled construction bots however by upgrading it's neural net to allow for better functionality it also grew sentient and (somehow) a threat ('buds and seeds) **+** post the whole movie structure as as a giant plain-english (/conspiracy-style) logic flow chart example link: [[data center]] ## anti-ironic update patch a24 joins the genai slop borg industry https://kotaku.com/a24-ai-backrooms-google-deepmind-deal-2000709598 // republic of bob