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A Trillion Dollars. JonathanPie.com

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

Nope. It's just factual reality. If an AI generated an output, you did not make it. It doesn't matter if it was your idea or you pressed generate 50 times. You didn't make it.

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

Interesting experiment I showed my dad this who is a programmer and now works in AI. (Not on the art side of things but programming) I asked him which image looked better and he consistently preferred DLSS off. He showed me a song he wrote that he put into suno and he then realized how it completely overwrote everything from the original and replaced it entirely with something else. People spend their lives learning and refining these skills, every detail is placed there with intent, and we have failed to acknowledge and respect that. AI has very useful applications but randomizing details and artistic decisions that are intentional choices of the artist is not one of them. We are trying so hard to replicate something we don't need to. Even with all the RAM and processing power in the world and all the destruction it brings environmentally we continue to fall backwards in tech, it's not ready.

GOOD

What AI hawkers simply can't understand is: even if you put aside the stolen training data, unwanted integration, environmental impact, creation of low-trust culture, and dogshit output, they still talk and behave like fanatical tent preachers and no one wants to be around them.

oh sorry, does someone not like it when their data is used for AI training

I feel bad for a lot of the AI bros on here. It's like, you can tell they so badly want to be filmmakers and want to be accepted by the film community as filmmakers, but because they wont be, they are forced to sort of band together in their "these people don't get it and are scared" cave. Look, go get rich using AI to grift fake books or text books or generate 10 second slop that gets millions of views. That's your best bet. Truly. No one is seeing your AI film and thinking of you as a filmmaker. At best, you're commissioning a painting and then calling yourself a painter and that's not only sad, but really boring. At least go get rich off this.

Brother, the difference here is that you aren’t using oil OR acrylic. You’re just saying “flower” and then complaining you aren’t in the same conversations as van Gogh.

AMC Theaters Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar hollywoodreporter.com/movies…

Feels like this is the BBC sending a signal to artists and creatives all across the country that (for the time being) they have our back in the battle against AI slop. Fantastic stuff.

sculpted this in a 5 minutes just to dunk on you. your turn promptoid. lets see what you can sculpt in 5 mins.

Funny how AI bros say “break the pencil”, when all breaking a pencil does is give you two pencils

Sorry but making AI cartoons of yourself makes me think you’re a simpleton, you eat custard for dinner with a big wooden spoon, you put the bumpers on when you go bowling, your dream holiday is Dubai x

Gumball is perhaps the most notable example: the crew behind that show actually wanted to switch over to ToonBoom, but doing so would require remaking its entire asset library from scratch. Guess we’re not getting Season 8 at a normal time.

Toon Boom would be smart to launch a 50% sale on annual subscriptions right now.

Elon Musk being the least popular pedophile is so fucking funny

It's time to realise that the richest most powerful people on the planet are the most evil, greediest people on the planet. Stop believing their propaganda about themselves and realise that they are THE problem, the only one.