Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

You’re an independent filmmaker. You don’t have a big Hollywood marketing budget. How do you market your film?

Make robots, of course!

Or, to be more precise, you make “chatbots.”

“Flatland was a different kind of film; strange, intellectual, bizarre,” said Ladd Ehlinger Jr., director of the animated feature. “So I wanted something different to promote it.”

Chat room regulars may be familiar with the concept of a “chatbot.” Alternately referred to as “pornbots,” because they’re often employed by the adult entertainment industry, they are also almost universally despised.

“No one likes chatbots that pretend to be humans,” said Ehlinger. “But I wondered if they could be put to better use? To be entertaining in and of themselves, to answer questions about my film, to introduce people to the world of Flatland?” said Ehlinger.

Flatland, an animated science fiction feature film based on the 1884 novel by Edwin A. Abbott, is popular with mathematicians and computer scientists for its explorations into such heady subjects as dimensionality and the nature of reality.
Artificial Intelligence to Promote Feature Film ‘Flatland’

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