John Lopez
@jedgarlopez
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What I learned as part of the WGA AI working group https://t.co/m84nz3jqPw
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A member of the WGA’s AI working group reflects on screenwriting in the age of artificial intelligence—and explains why now is the time to stand up for human labor.
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Rian Johnson Goes Off on AI as He Looks to His Post-‘Knives Out’ Future
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Three years after inking one of the richest movie deals in streaming history to bring his franchise to Netflix, the force behind ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ and ‘Poker Face’ is ready to move on with a movie...
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Americans don't support AI because they don't trust it being deployed to benefit them. Half of middle income Americans think that "People like me will be left behind rather than realize any advantage" from AI. https://t.co/V9YVNlHZq5
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Trump is completely owned by tech-feudalists. These people want to cognitively enslave you, addict you, dispossess you. It's Thiel, Andreessen, the Rockbridge Network, and their candidate of choice for 2028: JD Vance.
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🚨 IMPORTANT: If you're a Gmail user and DON'T WANT your data being used to train AI, here's how you turn off the "smart feature" settings: 1. Turning OFF "smart feature" settings for Gmail, Chat & Meet: - On your computer, go to Gmail. - At the top right, click Settings - See
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“AI companies copy their work for training, then sell access to the trained model - *which competes at unheard-of scale with the people whose work it uses*. The social contract under which people create is being broken.”
People in AI often justify the exploitation of creatives' work for AI training with versions of: 'If people can learn from your work, why can't AI?' But this totally ignores the social contract under which people create and share their work. Traditionally, when people created
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Mr. Governor, we may disagree about a variety of things, but I 100% agree with what you’ve said here. Now it looks like @realDonaldTrump is siding with Big Tech on this. How can like-minded people like us, from across the political spectrum, work together to stop this?
Stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI is a subsidy to Big Tech and will prevent states from protecting against online censorship of political speech, predatory applications that target children, violations of intellectual property rights and data center intrusions on
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It is indescribably sad that, if you exploit “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet” without paying the musicians behind them - and create a model that can compete with those musicians - this is how you are rewarded
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Thank you Jeff, for solving the mystery of why people interested in making toys no longer visit my website. It was a puzzle why, recently, traffic fell to zero - since my website had always been a helpful resource to answer questions about toy making. The interested individuals
As an example of how we are building on top of Gemini 3, AI Mode in Search now uses Gemini 3 to enable new generative UI experiences, all generated completely on the fly based on your query. Here’s how you might use this to learn a complex topic like how RNA polymerase works.
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Spotify refuses to act on AI music - and AI music has now predictably topped the Spotify charts. People are uploading slop for “streams of passive income”, competing with musicians, and Spotify doesn’t care. This is the inevitable result. Quit Spotify. https://t.co/3e8IcuCXK5
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I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?
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Areas near data centers are seeing a 267% increase in a 5 year period.
Hey remember that @TheEconomist story from last week suggesting that there was no correlation between AI data centers and electricity bills? You know, the one that strangely compared rates at the state level (rather than at local levels), and plotted data centers against
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45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses had serious sourcing problems: missing, misleading or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details & outdated information. Gemini had errors 76% of the time.
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Incredible reporting by @Reuters. Meta makes more money from ad fraud - as much as $16 billion - than all the NFL TV partners put together make on NFL ad sales. Theft on an epic scale.
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show https://t.co/sMmL09NETp
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Wait a minute. Coca-Cola’s dogshit AI ad basically cost as much as shooting a normal ad that humans would like?
For the AI Coke ad, 100 people involved, price comparable to older AI free ads, 70000 AI video's generated. It doesn't sound like it was cheaper or more efficient & there's the added element of brand damage from people who think it looks terrible and soulless.
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I refuse to believe that this stuff doesn't matter to a lot of voters
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I’ll match you. Meta makes more money from ad fraud according to this report than all journalists collectively. And likely all in 2000, too, when every town had a newspaper to inform its community.
Incredible reporting by @Reuters. Meta makes more money from ad fraud - as much as $16 billion - than all the NFL TV partners put together make on NFL ad sales. Theft on an epic scale.
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I don't like either company, but this is potentially the biggest middle finger Coca Cola could possibly receive for generating AI ads.
Apple has revealed they created their new streaming intro practically and captured it in-camera.
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ChatGPT helped Viktoria plan a suicide, encouraged her to write a suicide note, and drafted the note for her. What are we doing here?? Why are these platforms not being regulated as rapidly as possible? From the BBC today: https://t.co/Lgqh8imdXf
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you don’t *have* to be a Kardashian to know which way the wind blows.
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The most amazing thing is that this basic concept that LLMs aren’t and never will be intelligent still has not made its way to Wall St An army of overpaid analysts and professional money managers still putting trillions to work betting on a fatally flawed technology
Go back and read our 2019 book, Rebooting AI; it was all there. The limits of statistics and pattern-matching; the desperate need for world models. Six years of grief and Davis and I were right all along. Amazing.
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