The Director of a Raunchy 3-Hour Dracula Movie Says AI Is Gross and Slimy. That's Why He Used It Radu Jude is the internet's favorite filmmaker. In 2021, the Romanian writer-director bagged the prestigious Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for, a black comedy about a school teacher whose career is threatened when a hardcore porno she makes with her husband goes viral. Shot largely on the streets of Bucharest during Covid-19 lockdowns, the film documents the eerie, empty aesthetic of urban centers in the era and captures real citizens snarling and cursing at the camera and at the film's lead actress. His follow-up, 2023's, nailed a different strain of post-Covid alienation. Its heroine, Angela (Ilinca Manolache), toils away 9 to 5 making shady workplace safety videos for a faceless multinational while moonlighting on TikTok, pretending to be a misogynist influencer (modeled after Romania's own model of toxic masculinity, Andrew Tate).

Twenty years of Google and Wikipedia, but the information is still not at our fingertips. And what if we could do it by indexing and creating a better entity map? On this episode, I interview Jude Gomil, Founder and CEO of Golden, the world's first self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence. We talked about how to think about, compile, and organize knowledge using both AI and humans. "One of the things that's been bugging me when I've been searching for things," Jude said, "is this: I've not found the information. It's been missing, scattered over the web, or fragmented in lots of different areas."