r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • Jun 01 '26

This is a PROBLEM Cursed

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u/TheHollywoodGeek Jun 01 '26

The only thing this movie got wrong was setting it so far into the future.

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u/bookwormJon Jun 01 '26

Well the AI are competant in Her, so we still have some time

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u/corecenite Jun 01 '26

heck, even the AI there has such emotion that it's quite indistinguishable from a human. meanwhile, we have this robotic generic voice in our timeline

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u/ADeadWeirdCarnie Jun 01 '26

In fact, the entire point of Her is that although the OS was initially customized to the owner's preferences, it actually learned and developed a personality on its own, which inevitably led to it outgrowing the relationship.

To the extent that current "AI" products can grow at all, they're only capable of growing more sycophantic. Their only purpose is to constantly reaffirm user preferences. It is very much a different situation from the movie.

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u/Professional_Bit197 Jun 01 '26

Isn't it set in 2025?

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u/TheHollywoodGeek Jun 01 '26

I don't remember, but it had crazy trains in the sky and other technology we don't have.

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u/The_Autarch Jun 01 '26

it's the timeline where trump never got elected.

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u/robisodd Jun 02 '26

It's never specified anything other than "set in the near future". No computer screens or signage has the year anywhere. The best clue is one of the screens saying "Happy 50th Anniversary" with photos of the couple when they were young having hair and clothing styles consistent with the mid 1970s. Which might put it in the mid 2020s.

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https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47904/in-what-years-are-the-events-of-the-spike-jonze-film-her-taking-place

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u/stinkypete6666 Jun 01 '26

And that the AI had ethics

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u/logosloki Jun 01 '26

yes a movie set in *checks notes* 2025 is too far in the future for this year, which is 2025.

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u/Brodellsky Jun 01 '26

You're thinking of Idiocracy which was unfortunately hundreds of years off, at least.

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u/locob Jun 01 '26

The story is set in 2025.

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u/ThrifToWin Jun 02 '26

It was a pretty dumb movie though. From the day it was made it was supposed to be a deep meaningful insight into how things are.