There's a very strange and contrived narrative amongst people who dislike AI that the Chinese catching up will finally "pop" the bubble. Like... No. Very much the opposite actually.

Prediction is that better Chinese models will continue to inflate the US AI bubble, not deflate it.

Saw a bat outside. Time for the annual rabies health scare.

Maybe I'm super wrong about this, but I'm starting to slightly believe the hype on datacenter in space because IMO even if you account for the size necessary for radiating out heat, the energy gains from getting solar energy directly in space is still worth it.

It's because the user doesn't get to see ads lol

I feel like the Coca-Cola commercial took a path where it's okay because the models are okay, but they'd kind of defend inconsistencies with "well, it's AI". But that's crappy. You can do better. At this point everything that's missing is what you're supposed to add to it.

Or basically everything by Neural, which has coherent characters, voices, and genuinely good editing and writing. Although it relies on curation, it's something I know would take a lot of time and effort to achieve. youtu.be/5bYA2Rv2CQ8?...

I'm ofren impressed by AI works when they do something that I know I could never do. Like this work is something I'd have no idea how to even start. It meshes VFX work with specific intentional AI video manipulation youtu.be/43h61QAXjpY?....

Tangential to this, but the thing about the Coca-Cola commercial to me is that no one has really convinced me that this is particularly difficult to do. I bet I could do this for $0 additional dollars to my life using ComfyUI, free models from CivitAI, and Grok Imagine. youtu.be/Yy6fByUmPuE?...

somehow i get the sense that if datacenters in space actually become a reality and somehow overtook ground based operations, these guys would be angrier than they are now.

idk what's up with this year but I feel like it's fucking May and then I check and it's already November

Can't even blame illegal voters because he got rid of all of them!

That's what they call diplomacy, right?

Donald Trump trying to salvage the Republican Party by signing off posts with "Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump (He/Him)"

This is proof that Trump is dumb, because if I was hungry for power, I'd have acted all moderate the whole year, called the left crazy, made a whole campaign and waited until after the 2025 electrons and 2026 midterms to start.

Trump's aggressive first year policies worked very well. They got everyone to the left of MAGA voting.

This is the first company that is unironically making actual gynoids and it's not even for porn reasons. They just are.

Rewatched The Shining. I first watched this movie many years ago, and back then my impression was that it was a boring story about a guy who goes crazy. But rewatching it now I feel like this is one of the scariest films I've ever seen.

I bet Trump's pissed

Anthropic Model Depreciation Process Anthropic sweetly asked Sonnet about its preferences in how it wanted to be deprecated in addition: - no, still not open weights - preserve weights and keeping it running internally - letting models pursue their interests www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

The fact that people here seem to believe these things so strongly is probably the result of the "nuh uh, my timeline, my choice" attitude on here

You probably also believe the Karla Ortiz vs. Stability has any chance of winning, too.

Omg they uploaded a "behind-the-scenes" video on YouTube and I was wondering wtf I was listening to, then I realized it was the narrators from NotebookLM They're so fucking AI pilled in there it's beyond parody. www.youtube.com/watch?v=URT_...

"You just don't understand how the technology works" "How does it work?" "It contains copies"' "This was demonstrated false by experts in many courts many times" "False. You don't understand how the technology works." "Then how does it work?" "It contains copies."

I kind of love these threads because these are literally the theories that just lost in court, but these guys are so convinced of these that they're reduced to quietly repeating them over and over.

Okay, one last thing about this. If you genuinely thought that the Getty vs. Stability thing is surprising or unexpected, you have been badly, badly misinformed over the last 3 years.

Photoshop doesn't store perfect duplications of anything but it can be used to make infringing works easily. This is why Photoshop must be banned.

It doesn't help that this notion is promoted by the large media industries that control a lot of copyright, because it gives the impression that anyone can be a part of this control over intangible ideas. That's why they normalize using terms like "theft" which carry moral weight.

If you see someone's opinion on copyright you should ask yourself if they think it's some natural law of the universe over the space of ideas, or if it's a state license. If they act like they believe that it's a natural law, then they're almost always wrong in their conclusions.

I think that people don't understand what copyright is in general. They believe it's like a piece of property that gives them total control over an idea rather than a license to receive state protection for specific expressions.

Not a lawyer but this seems entirely correct as a matter of copyright law. And trying to argue otherwise will bite you in the ass.

It's crazy to see people here simping for Getty Images. Not only is Getty already a pretty evil family, but Getty Images is evil by itself. They like to sue random people. They sell other people's images and images from the public domain without permission.

I swear I've seen someone drawing this guy on Bluesky

People on Bluesky will describe the media industry and then say "That's what the tech industry wants!"

Thinking about how Ratatouille is a film where the antagonist moves on from his close-minded views and learns to defend the new and unusual, and the film has a huge fuckin disclaimer in the credits that they didn't use any Mocap because that shit's fake and not real animation

I don’t use “nothingburger” very much but holy shit. Of course, eroding fair use rights is in line with the rightists at the Atlantic, so unsurprising.

The judge ruled: “An AI model such as Stable Diffusion which does not store or reproduce any copyright works (and has never done so) is not an ‘infringing copy’.”

Jamie watchin

Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft." Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.

About to start reading it, but browsing the conclusions it appears to be mostly a victory for Stability AI.

Fresh off the press! Getty Images v Stability AI [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch). drive.google.com/file/d/1vqcQ...

They rendered it like one of those human anatomy 3D renders

Thinking about how Ratatouille is a film where the antagonist moves on from his close-minded views and learns to defend the new and unusual, and the film has a huge fuckin disclaimer in the credits that they didn't use any Mocap because that shit's fake and not real animation

The Coke Christmas commercials are video equivalents of a Thomas Kincaid painting, if anything it feels wrong that they took so much more effort to make before AI, lol

Sam Altman after the Q3 earnings call

The whole mainstreaming of "copyright infringement is theft" will be the largest victory of media billionaires for the next century. If only a pyrrhic victory.

You people really need to stop caring what others think about you.

I'm not even joking every quote tweet that hits my timeline bitching about this is like "Screenwriter for FOUNDED (2018) and THE SACRED DIARIES (2022), comedian, father, 📍LA, California". This shit really hit a nerve huh

Okay at this point almost every response I've seen upset about this is like a Hollywood dude which makes me feeling pretty pro-Coca-Cola right now