Always a pleasure getting to call Generative A.I. limited and mediocre compared to human creativity in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

This morning, Disney announced a deal with OpenAI. Read more about the WGAW’s advocacy against the theft and exploitation of writers’ works by AI models: www.wga.org/contracts/kn...

I hope @propublica.org understands that not only are @propublicaguild.org G.A.I. demands fair and reasonable, but relying on G.A.I. for investigative journalism is just an inevitable disaster waiting to happen. ✊

THIS MAKES ME SO….

Honored to be part of the inaugural Dean Winters Short Film Festival open.substack.com/pub/tomfonta...

This holiday season, consider streaming services that pay artists more fairly by @bcmerchant.bsky.social — www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...

Until people leave these platforms profitting off viral grifts all together, it’s only going to keep getting worse.

I’ll be talking all things Screenwriting, A.I. and Labor tomorrow at @caveatnyc.bsky.social. www.caveat.nyc/events/on-th...

Things every writer should know about A.I. on the latest @wgaeast.bsky.social OnWriting podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of awful shit Corporate A.I. does every day… if there’s a federal ban on state A.I. laws, it would be a Twinkie… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

No notes. youtu.be/Qtr81JWCl6c?...

Miyazaki: This is an insult to life itself. www.theverge.com/news/812545/...

This 👏 technology 👏 is 👏 not 👏 reliable.

To answer a question in this @thr.com article: Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries." They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!

When all else fails…

Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m. 📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

For what it’s worth: Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

Go on. Tell me more. deadline.com/2025/10/mpa-...

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

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...

MOUNTAINHEAD (2025), dir. Jesse Armstrong

The best dunk is the one you never see coming.

Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

Did someone say infinite ‘content' driven by free labor and billions of ad-profits to whoever controls those platforms?

With so much media uncertainty right now, this one hit particularly hard. www.shortoftheweek.com/news/vimeo-s...

run program graft.exe

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Few things make me laugh cry as hard as the silent version of “Dancing in the Streets.”

Statutory damages for this kind of piracy start at $750 per infringed work. Because the library amassed by Anthropic was thought to contain approximately seven million works, the AI company was potentially facing court-imposed penalties amounting to billions, or even over $1 trillion dollars.

I appreciate whoever did this.

"A brittle mirage that vanishes when it is pushed beyond training" www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

I do think it’s really notable that @nytimes.com is parroting OpenAI talking points unchecked.

Even OpenAI can’t rely on GPT5… IN THE SALES PITCH TRYING TO CONVINCE US TO RELY ON GPT5. www.theverge.com/news/756444/...

History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme in unpaid royalties.

Aug 4th 1997 - Skynet, the world's first Automated Defense Network, was activated. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

As usual, The Critic already predicted the next circle of cinema hell — using GenAI to “fix” movie classics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGb...

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

I really don’t think people are ready for when Meta, X and probably even LinkedIn start making A.I. generated ads with their likenesses using the data from all their photos and posts.

WGAE’s Sam Wheeler joined @cnn.com Erin Burnett OutFront to discuss ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ cancellation, what CBS calls “a financial decision.”

*Immediately plays in my head* Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire.

The eulogy to the video store I didn’t know I needed, but will almost definitely make me cry my eyes out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=niB0...

In case you were worried, “amazeballs” has been officially entered into the lexicon.

In the spirit of better social media... have to send some to praise to @glass.photo. Reminds me of the best days of Flickr and Vimeo. Pure and simple. glass.photo/larryjcohen/...

Ditto.