Who’s That Actor? Revisited

I was watching The Four Seasons yesterday, and there were a couple of actors I wondered who were. I mean, not Alan Alda, but a couple of the others… so I hit the “Emacs, tell me who what is” button on my remote, and nothing much happened. So things had bitrotted once again, which isn’t weird — the code is a bit of a Rube Goldberg thing which you can peruse here, but I wouldn’t really recommend it. But I’ve spent the entire day fixing it, so I deserve to complain aimlessly in a blog post, right? OK? OK: The main problem is that AI web scrapers are hitting imdb so hard that Amazon has tightened its shield even more. The main motor behind the Actor Guessing Machine is an LLM, and that API still works (if you can call “being wrong half of the time” to “work”), but I’m trying to use imdb to show the actor’s face (see inset on the top right above) so that I can check whether what the LLM said is likely. My first idea was to just avoid using imdb altogether. Instead I asked the LLM to…

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