Except instead of George Lucas, it’s every single studio ever

I literally have seen someone posting on Twitter a version of Hamilton where Scarlett Johansson is in it. On top of this likely costing OpenAI a dollar a second to generate, they are potentially going to get sued into a fine paste by multiple different parties

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material www.404media.co/openais-sora...

No big deal, I’m just making personalized videos on Sora with my favorite copyrighted characters owned by Disney and Amazon/Netflix and featuring an identifiable actress who is definitely not getting paid for this….

The Law Brothers are big Mitch Hedberg fans

So, this book comes out in just under 5 weeks. It's about the government applying pressure to the film industry financially, socially, and fear-mongeringly in the late 1940s, and then it analyzes the cultural fall out of that pressure. Spoiler: things got real socially conservative real quick.

Paramount wants to buy WB. Skydance's purchase of Paramount (David Ellison) is backed by Oracle (Larry Ellison). Oracle's earnings (which they missed this quarter, btw) are largely driven by the OpenAI and the AI bubble. So what happens to ParamountWBSkydance when the bubble pops?

MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR TEAM AAPI

That might have killed @chadmoriyama.bsky.social

The fact that Ackman is suggesting this tells you just what his ethical principles look like and his investors, whoever they are, should flee his funds. He’s literally advocating defrauding markets for personal gain. No institutional money should take the risk of putting their cash into his hands.

Sometimes I'm like "writing about movies isn't helpful right now" but then I see the actual context for a film that came out almost 20 years ago, a film that was supposed to be a warning, playing out with our own chief dumbass and I'm like "oh no, okay, we DEFINITELY need more media literacy."

It sucks that it wasn't more but $1.5bn is a lot considering that's basically all the revenue they made this year so far, revenue that cost them billions to make. This is meaningful

This is just a reminder to foreign corporations and governments that operating in the United States is now equivalent to building enterprises in Russia, the People's Republic of China and other authoritarian states. Invest here at your own f*cking risk.

But I was gonna go to sleep now I have to stay up and keep scrolling?!?

BRING WALKER HOME

This is amazing(ly bad/stupid/insane/somehow both surprising and not surprising)

Hey fellow authors! File your claim now to punish this AI company from stealing your work without compensation. If we punish them hard enough maybe "theft-as-business model" will stop. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Challenge accepted!

it is absolutely possible for these companies to hard-line this stuff and just refuse to continue interacting, even when users ask them for "help writing a story." The model developers refuse to do it because they don't want any possible limitations. Evil.

Generative AI is a get rich quick scheme for business idiots (thanks Ed for the very useful term)

"But Adam had learned how to bypass those safeguards by saying the requests were for a story he was writing — an idea ChatGPT gave him by saying it could provide information about suicide for 'writing or world-building.'"

Once the bubble bursts and the dust settles I am going to go full force at Electronic Arts over the Madden franchise. Each year is broken in both the same ways and new ones they add that are blatantly obvious if you play for more than two minutes. I will focus the might of Better Offline

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

Despite the lawyer’s claims, this is not, in fact, a cultural thing.

I’m finally listened to @danhamamura.bsky.social and watched #TwistedMetal and anyway, Anthony Mackie? GOOD FOR YOU

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

Some of the world's smartest people are deeply invested in the idea that LLMs are actually creative forces. They are not. They are vacuum cleaners attached to a firehose.

You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes

this is how Tea got its start. it's an incredibly ugly tale top to bottom. a gripping investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

This is mostly for @mattyoung.bsky.social but holy hell Survivor: Australia vs. the World goes hard

My 7 year old nephew called K-Pop Demon Hunters “pure cinema” and honestly can’t stop thinking about his review

Not enough of you are watching GLASS HEART and honestly it shows

Asians: if it’s still not clear, the “first they came for the…” poem reached us a long-ass time ago.

Once again, AI is not a miracle machine mind, it is an additional layer of obfuscation between the product and the people exploited to make it.

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

Finally, the Wizard of Oz as it was always intended to be seen: as a full-motion adventure game for the Sega CD

I think this might be even more savage than the Guy Fieri restaurant review

The Tesla diner is unfortunately in my neighborhood so I took a little peek to see boxes of milk and frozen foods out in the heat. Good luck to everyone’s stomachs.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Oh, so the $1.5 billion is for South Park's lawyers, got it

welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented

Out, man

whoever told him to deny the shit out of it probably deserves the nobel peace prize tbh

He’s so close to getting it

Just a dog and his emotional support squishmellow

I did not realise people didn't know this. This is a hugely important background context to the florida concentration camp. this very specific element of racism dates back to before the foundation of the united states