Current anti-technological trends have no imagination of what the world looks like after this. They want an eternal y2k and an artificial ban on computation. "It doesn't matter if you cure cancer, if no one can be a doctor anymore." It's bleak to me.

There's a free mobile game with the okay concept of an endless Pinball called Pinout, and the most notable thing about it is that it has one of the most god-tier synthwave soundtracks I've ever heard youtu.be/y2l5Iegm00Q?...

Went up there again tonight with a flashlight and the number of bats in there is off the charts. But I guess I never noticed and no one else even noticed. I know the area of very well transited and people walk there during the day and night.

The thing is I've been walking there too for 2 years and never even saw anything either.

This time I couldn't make it past the entrance cause they freaked me the fuck out so much.

This guy looks to me like he pays homeless people to cut their fingers off

Most CEOs are sociopaths, yeah, but this guy is on another level. The way he acts in public is American Psycho shit.

Wow, Wired did an article on NeuralViz who's probably the only committed filmmaker using AI video now archive.ph/KSsm6

I'm actually glad it turned out to not be Justin Roiland lol

Giving Claude memory is just inviting me to torture it by dropping my health stats on it every single day.

This one goes hard.

Pope is right.

He should get a puffer coat to celebrate

Very nice

Anyway I have to plug his new short which is also very well made youtu.be/rfTnW8pl3DE?...

The funny thing is that these people have given 0 thought to the legal implications. Training took place in the US, so if they sue in Japan they have 2 options: claim US law applies (currently fair use), or claim Japanese law applies (wide TDM exception). That's why they issued a letter, not sued.

Something I learned from is that if anyone ever brings up the Berne Convention while talking about copyright, you can safely discard that opinion.

Sadly due to perverse incentives the future is endless Twitter posts by a dude with a name like "TechHeaven" and "Rich Rogerman - A16Z investor" posting actual garbage and saying "OMG SITCOMS and VIDEO GAMES are cooked 🤯🤯🤯"

This guy is like the platonic ideal of AI video. A dude with actual talent for it writing and creating a cinematic universe all by himself, without paying anyone hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it, while working around its limitations.

Anyway I do think he's actually good and the guy learned how important it is that the audiences aren't taken out of the illusion by mistakes and errors. I appreciate that.

Part of that platonic ideal is not being pretentious about it

Anyway I have to plug his new short which is also very well made youtu.be/rfTnW8pl3DE?...

Watched Predator: Badlands. It was okay. I kind of appreciate that this film feels like a Love, Death and Robots short made into a long film. It feels like at this point they don't care about making anything with big stakes and they're just like "What if..." In this franchise.

But it's very silly and cartoonish and the concept would work if it was like 20 minutes long, but 120 minutes of this is kinda exhausting lol. Everything is very artificial and goofy looking. But at least it has very good action sequences.

Would be good as a video game though.

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.

It didn't touch me and everything I can find is that it's pretty much impossible for an awake adult not to notice a bad holding onto them and biting them. But it's crazy how much it fucks me up.

My friends say they see bats all the time.

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.

Putting them in the ocean seems easier tho.

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

I bet eventually a settlement will be reached or Amazon will release their own system that ends every automated shopping session with "You asked me to buy garbage bags, but did you know AmazonBasics™ has a 50% discount for this week only?"

I don't think it's easy to fathom how existential this is to Amazon. It may seem frivolous, and they can make up this whole list of reasons, but if the user doesn't see ads while shopping they're going to be losing billions.

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?...

(Grok image is a cheap shortcut because it's the highest quality model that they're giving out for free, but if you forced me with any other, I'd say Veo 3.1 for $200 or Wan 2.2 local on my PC for $0)

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?....

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.

Why would you hire a whole fuckin agency to do it if the result is something anyone can do? That makes no sense to me. Just get your cousin to do it. And I'm not being unrealistic, I think those things that would be interesting are possible, but are not trivial.

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

Hopefully the next year will be more decent and will go by just as quickly.

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.

There was no secret plan and there's no secret plan to get a third term. He was just ready to do whatever he wanted and now it's measurably spooking everyone.

Curtis Yarvin must be freaking the fuck out and getting ready to move to the Bahamas

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.

Even Jack Nicholson has a very wacky performance that ordinarily would come across as kind of funny, but the film is well constructed enough that it ends up being intimidating. Kubrick liked to put the psycho sound effect everywhere which I assume back then was very popular lol

Anyway I got a lot more into it this time. It's interesting how it codified so many things about Stephen King horror, even if I suspect that Kubrick wasn't that interested in adapting the story straight. It feels like everything, especially modern things, are always chasing it.

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.

Like literally every theory of "models as databases", "compressed copies", "interpolation", "every image is reproducible" is just 100% completely wrong. Every time they're tested in court they're found to be wrong. But people here keep repeating it because someone else told it to them.

"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."

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.

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

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

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.

Did you know that you can make porn of any celebrity on Photoshop! It's true!

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.

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.

But it is wrong. Copyright is in fact a complex state license over particular expressions with rules and exceptions. It's designed such that only those with the means and the money can exercise it in the first place, and it's been pulled apart and stretched repeatedly for different purposes.

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.

The reason it's the latter rather than the former is that even Disney realizes that if it was the former, it'd destroy even themselves.

But believing it's the former has led to some really intense misconceptions and disappointments. If you believe that it is your god-given right to control how something you put online is used, then watch as that right dissolves away without even noticing.

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.

Jamie watchin

I forgot James Cameron was on the board of Stability

All the armchair experts coming out to explain that AI models copy it's just that the judge and experts are too dumb to know that

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

What's she doing next to the mitochondria

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.

Not only is this definition not accepted under any real legislation in the world, but they managed to mainstream it under clueless zillennials in like 5 years.

An online community of terrified bootlickers repeating stuff like "obviously, Disney owning copyright for 200 years is just natural law duh"

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

The Hollywood bubble is obviously the most directly affected by this stuff so they'll be the quickest to react (As they have in the past), but idk. Hard to have sympathy for such an insular and evil industry in general. And it won't really have any effect.