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US and UK law enforcement are bracing for an explosion of AI-generated CSAM, and criticize Meta, the authorities' best partner for…

Eileen Sullivan / New York Times: US and UK law enforcement are bracing for an explosion of AI-generated CSAM, and criticize Meta, the authorities' best partner for flagging CSAM, over E2EE — Law enforcement officials are bracing for an explosion of material generated by artificial intelligence that realistically depicts children … Eileen Sullivan / New York Times: US and UK law enforcement are bracing for an explosion of AI-generated CSAM, and criticize Meta, the authorities' best partner…

Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is magnetic in uneven neo-noir thriller | Drama films

William Oldroyd’s follow-up to his superb feature debut, Lady Macbeth, Eileen is a 60s-set sapphic neo-noir that sees a gauche younger woman (Thomasin McKenzie) entranced by a sophisticated new co-worker (Anne Hathaway) at a Massachusetts young offenders facility. McKenzie plays Eileen as a girl who is upstaged by her own shapeless beige cardigan; it’s no wonder she’s fascinated by brassy blonde Rebecca, who matches her scarlet leather gloves to her sports car.And for a while at least, we fall under the same spell –…

Anne Hathaway, Thomas McKenzie Get Hot, Heavy, and Dark

You would not call Eileen Dunlop “innocent.” A twentysomething with a little college under her belt — even if she’d hadn’t dropped out when her mom died, she still would have become a secretary, what with this being the early 1960s and all — Eileen has her hands full taking care of her permanently drunk, ex-cop dad. She works at a prison for juvenile offenders in a blue-collar Massachusetts burg. If she spies a couple in a car parked near hers, she may shove a fistful of snow down the front of her skirt. (Whether that…

Wonderful novel ‘Eileen’ becomes neutered film

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don’t just mean the plot of “Eileen.” The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s delicious coming-of-age heroine has had a weird birth onto film. The plot and setting haven’t changed: It’s late 1964 in a frigid coastal town in Massachusetts. “Everybody’s kind of angry here — it’s Massachusetts,” Eileen explains in one her best lines. She works as a clerk at a juvenile corrections facility, goes home to an alcoholic dad and…

Eileen review: Anne Hathaway seduces and beguiles her way through a twisty thriller

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWilliam Oldroyd’s debut, 2016’s Lady Macbeth, cannon-shot Florence Pugh towards stardom. A taut, economical period drama, it practically curled itself up at the actor’s feet, happy to warm itself by the fire that burnt in her eyes. Oldroyd’s follow-up, the Sixties-set thriller Eileen, could, at a glance, offer the same to its lead Thomasin McKenzie. But she’s already shown us her knack…

Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is vehement in solemnly intense psycho-noir | Film

Here’s a peculiar misfire of a psycho-noir, for which Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh have co-adapted Moshfegh’s Booker-shortlisted novel of the same name and William Oldroyd directs. It’s acted and presented with a weirdly solemn intensity, like a deadly serious remake of some lost John Waters pulp classic. Gif immortality beckons for the bizarre moment in which Anne Hathaway’s character grapples with what looks worryingly like a fake cat, throwing it out of the front door with a yowling noise on the soundtrack.The…

Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel on Eileen, movies and their marriage: ‘Are people titillated by unlikeable women?’

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMuch fuss has been made about the fact Ottessa Moshfegh wrote her brilliant breakthrough novel Eileen in 90 days using a rudimentary how-to guide that she picked up in a bookstore. The book would end up winning the Pen/Hemingway Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Books Critics Circle Award.The revelation of Eileen’s origins came as an…

Public Benchmarks for Medical Natural Language Processing | by Eileen Pangu | Mar, 2023

A general introduction to a list of canonical tasks and corresponding datasets to measure your medical natural language processingSource: https://unsplash.com/The field of natural language processing (NLP) has evolved really fast in recent years. Breakthroughs like transformer, BERT, GPT have emerged one after another. Practitioners of all industries are exploring how to leverage the exciting development of NLP in their specific business domains and workflows . One such industry that stands to benefit greatly from the…

How to Use Large Language Models (LLM) in Your Own Domains | by Eileen Pangu | Mar, 2023

A few canonical and research-proven techniques to adapt large language models to domain specific tasks and the intuition of why they are effective.Source: https://unsplash.com/Ever since being popularized by ChatGPT in late 2022, large language models (LLM) have attracted intense interest from the research and industry communities. While general chatbot is an obvious application of large language models, enterprises are thinking about how to integrate large language models into their business workflows to leverage this…

Eileen review – Anne Hathaway transfixes in off-kilter thriller | Sundance 2023

There’s a fantastically well-measured performance from Anne Hathaway in the strange, if not quite strange enough, thriller Eileen, an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Booker prize-shortlisted novel. She’s an actor who doesn’t always find her sweet spot, admirably trying to show extensive range for a star of her high wattage, yet often not proving to be the right match for her material, big swings frustratingly filed away as big misses.Hathaway has an outsized energy that can jar with roles that require a performer who can…