[Ads-l] Stix Nix Hix Pix

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

YouTube has a clip from the 1942 movie “Yankee Doodle Dandy”. The
actor James Cagney is shown reading a copy of “Variety”. The recreated
cover displays “STIX NIX HIX PIX!” which was a variant of the actual
headline “STICKS NIX HICK PIX”. Also, the recreated headline ends with
an exclamation mark which was absent in the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRFZEL5ffI

I am assuming that the clip on YouTube is accurate. In the coming
years it will be possible for many people to forge a clip using the
newly introduced generative AI systems for audio and video. The new
clip will look and sound somewhat similar to the genuine clip, but it
will be possible to substitute almost any headline on the paper, any
actor, or any audio track et cetera.

Please recall with me these halcyon days of naïve believability even
as we are living through them.

Garson

On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 3:24 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jonathan Lighter (JL) wrote:
> > > But then Garson confused me with Larry. That makes me feel better.
>
> Laurence Horn (LH) wrote:
> > I noticed that too, but figured it was because yesterday was my birthday. I am large, I contain multitudes.
>
> Apologies to JL and LH. Apparently, my decaying gray matter has only
> one memory slot for a name based on two capital letters. LH and JL are
> both wonderful mailing list participants. I will endeavor to convince
> my brain that they are two different people.
>
> As for "zom com", it is another interchangeable zombie commodity.
>
> Garson

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