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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - Today at 10:16:36 PM
I had this issue once

 4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"

Copilot also advised me to always start a new chat with "Generate Image of Theatrical Poster," and it worked.
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by claws - Today at 09:52:32 PM
Someone at the forum posted this. What do you think is going on?

"copilot has been down for me for about a week now and is unable to generate new posters

anyone else having  this issue"
Quote from: bob on Today at 04:27:56 PMcopilot has been down for me for about a week now and is unable to generate new posters

 :bluesad:  :question:  :question:

anyone else having  this issue

I asked Copilot:

1. They're stuck in a "contaminated chat"

This is by far the #1 cause.

Once a chat has:

    generated a poster with certain visual elements

    repeated a layout

    hit a safety block

    or produced a malformed image

...the model tends to reuse the same internal visual state, even if the user changes the prompt.

That results in:

    no new posters

    repeated compositions

    or the model refusing to generate anything at all

People think Copilot is "down," but really the chat thread is corrupted.

The fix is simply to start a brand‑new chat, not reuse the old one.

 2. They're hitting a silent safety block

Copilot sometimes:

    refuses the request

    but doesn't say why

    and instead outputs nothing or a generic "unable to generate" message

This happens with:

    religious horror

    sexualized violence

    real actors

    real brands

    political imagery

    anything that looks like a real movie poster

Users often don't realize their prompt tripped a filter.

 3. They're using a prompt that used to work but now triggers new rules

You've seen this yourself — prompts that worked in April suddenly behave differently in June.

Copilot's image model has been tightening:

    text hallucination

    real‑person likeness

    gore

    satanic symbolism

    "prestige poster" formatting

If their prompt relied on older behavior, it may now fail silently.

 4. They're confusing "Copilot Chat" with "Copilot Image Creator"

Some forum users don't realize:

    the chat model can generate images

    the image creator is a separate interface

    and one can be updated while the other is not

If they're using the wrong entry point, it will look "down."

5. They're on a browser/device that cached a broken state

This is surprisingly common.

A bad cached script can cause:

    the image button to disappear

    the generation to hang

    the output to fail

Refreshing or switching browsers fixes it instantly.

The phrasing — "down for me for about a week" — almost always means their chat thread is stuck in a bad generation loop, not that Copilot is globally broken.

If Copilot were actually down:

    the forum would be flooded

    multiple users would report it

    other features would fail too

But only their posters are failing, which points to:
a corrupted chat + a prompt that now triggers safety.

If you want, I can help craft a clean, "reset‑safe" poster prompt that avoids the new filters
#3
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 08:15:29 PM


Why do people recycle?
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by bob - Today at 08:13:14 PM
#5
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 07:42:32 PM
FRANKENSTEIN (1914):
You've almost certainly seen a still from this one - most likely the one famous still I and tons of other people saw and knew this film for, through the 20th century. IIRC that still was all that was known to survive for many years, and then at some point some amount of this film was recovered. Maybe what I watched (14 minutes) was all of it, but it's hard to tell as the story feels pretty truncated (more or less "complete", but highly simplified) and the famous, haunting, indelible aforementioned still doesn't actually appear in the movie. :bluesad:

That famous still is fuh-ire :hot: and the Monster never looks as cool or scary in the extant 14 minutes - actually it looks kinda' lame much of the time........ but there are a couple cool things about this FRANKENSTEIN. One is the creation scene, which is unlike any I've seen in another Frank movie. It's clearly reversed footage of the upper-half of a puppet of the Monster burning up - and it looks quite "metal" (to quote a Letterboxd user). The other cool thing is how the director (J. Searle Dowley) uses a mirror in the film's final sequence. It's highly effective and it's not immediately clear how it was pulled off - which I appreciate in a primitive genre film!    3.5/5    Thomas Edison produced it.
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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by indianasmith - Today at 07:14:22 PM
SUPERGIRL (2026)  Caught this one in the theaters this afternoon with my wife.  While it's not as positive and grin-inducing as James Gunn's SUPERMAN, it's a fun story that starts with Kara, Superman's Kryptonian cousin, out celebrating her 23rd birthday with a drinking binge on a red-star planet (alcohol on earth doesn't affect her).   Suddenly she gets dragged into the revenge quest of 13-year-old Ruthye, whose parents and brother were murdered by a ruthless marauder named Krem.  Kara doesn't really want to help out, but when Krem poisons Krypto, her mischievous Kryptonian dog, Supergirl is all in!   Lots of great fight scenes, and Millie Alcock is both powerful and poignant as a girl who watched her planet die around her, only to find herself without a real home. Definitely worth the ticket price!  4.5/5
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 04:27:56 PM
Quote from: claws on Today at 11:54:58 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on Today at 11:17:36 AMThat's a really nice looking one.

That's from ChatGPT, and they have been killing it the last few weeks. I usually give Copilot and ChatGPT the same prompt, and 4 out of 5 times ChatGPT just does a better job. They add little things that makes a huge difference. Copilot seems lazy and less creative most of the time. Also, Copilot still has a habit of writing gibberish text, something that annoys me to no end.

I'd say ChatGPT is a bit more edgy than Copilot.


copilot has been down for me for about a week now and is unable to generate new posters

 :bluesad:  :question:  :question:

anyone else having  this issue
#8
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Jim H - Today at 04:26:37 PM
Shadow's Edge - Jackie Chan's sort of return to form is what I'd heard about this.  It's a remake of Eye in the Sky I gather, the 2007 Hong Kong film I'd heard of but never seen.  Tony Leung Ka-Fai (for those not in know, there are two Tony Leungs in Hong Kong - the other one is in Shang Chi, Wong Kar Wai films, and Hard-Boiled) is in both, seemingly playing the same role.  But this one is much more of an action vehicle. 

It is...  Reasonably entertaining, at times.  Pretty good action scenes.  Chan fights A LOT more in this than you might expect and is really putting in work, it's pretty impressive for a guy who is 70.  It's not as impressive of moves as his older films, but hey. 

The plot is basically about a gang of super robbers eluding the police via AI super hacking to cover up the footage in surveillance cameras, so Chan as an old school police expert is pulled out of retirement to formulate a new surveillance team to watch Macau.  Oh, despite being set in Macau and all the characters being born there from what we know, the film is shot almost entirely in Mandarin and a bit of English, with just a few throwaway lines in Cantonese.  This is basically like setting a film in Quebec and every Quebecois character spoke at their workplace and in private in English.  I know why they do it (there are 15x as many Mandarin speakers as Cantonese), just a pet peeve of mine.

Tony Leung is also getting on at 68, and also fights a lot as the villain.  Does a good job too, both in the fights and his performance.  I do want to complain about the editing, the opening sequence is one of the most poorly edited action sequences I've ever seen in my life.  It's just exhausting and awful, with cuts extremely frequent (I would guess many shots are literally in the 8-12 frame length) poorly chosen.  Like so obnoxious I almost turned the film off.  But it gets better as the film goes.  Characterization is a bit thin, the film is kind of long too.  But, was cool seeing Jackie in a role like this again, he's pretty good....  It's alright.  Probably a 6/10.
#9
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by bob - Today at 04:25:33 PM
#10
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Alex's even longer post th...
Last post by Alex - Today at 01:17:16 PM
My scammer is now asking for naked photos of me. I've not sent any, but I did casually drop into the conversation that I used to pose for art classes (true story), and that as a result, pretty much everyone I know in real life has seen me naked (ok, 20 to 30 years ago when I was in much better shape but still). Anyway, hopefully that cuts out any idea of blackmail there.

The new mix of drugs Kristi is on continues to have her throwing up every day so far. The only thing she has any appetite to eat is ramen noodles (something which in the 13-years I have known her she has avowedly detested). They've increased the strength of her anti-sickness pills but I am not seeing a huge difference.

I was sent this: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1ui0zfk/another_player_made_an_ai_chatbot_of_my_character/?solution=489d813565f37ff3489d813565f37ff3&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec56a30014905e9828364a2c929998a5b7&jsc_orig_r=&share_id=WEZWZYjOnM-56qD2iSrMt&utm_name=androidcss

I thought it was weird at first but no different to some of the fan fiction I've seen out there really, but whatever until I got to the bit with asking him to change his character's sexuality. At that point I'd like an instant ban from my table.

Ordered some stuff from my favourite local games shop online, paid for next day delivery and then a friend asked the next day if I wanted to go out to the shop. Oh well, Dylan won't be complaining since it meant I spent more money there lol. Between the different orders I've picked up a Panzer II (ok, more like a go-kart than an actual tank), an M3 Lee (I already have two M3 Grants), and a box of Africa Korps to do my north African German force. The women who had drove me over there is collecting a Chaos Space Marine army dedicated to Slaanesh (god of pervy stuff, which fits in with her as she is forever telling me about her being a sub and other details about her sex life that I have no interest in). Last week she drove us over to Dufftown for a 1940's event at the restored railway line there. Ash got to drive a train which made his entire life worthwhile in his opinion. Anyway, they had a model of the favourite champion of Slaanesh (guy called Fulgrim) on sale, so I talked her into buying it as the centrepiece of her army. The other week her kids managed to rip the light fitting out of the ceiling, and I ended up fixing that for her. Not long after we'd gotten back from Dylons, she phoned asking if I could come round and build a bed up for her toddler as she was lost on how to put it together. Only took an hour to do, and I didn't think it was that complicated to do to be honest, even if it did lack instructions since she'd bought it second hand.

It occurs to me as I write this that she's been asking me to come round a fair bit. Hopefully her partner will get sent back up here soon. I don't mind helping, but right now I have a lot on my plate.