If anyone wants to watch my 1st movie - my practically-zero budget GIRL FROM NOWHERE - here's a link. Enjoy! (Also available on Amazon Prime) #filmmaking #indiefilm #undergroundfilm #movies #CapeTown tubitv.com/movies/465921/gir…

Two years ago I became obsessed with making AI videos. No filmmaking experience. Just a genuine love for the craft. My only real goal has been to make the best videos I possibly can. Last week, this spec ad I made for @Redfin was nominated for AI Commercial of the Year at the @generatedawards. The category included work from @Google, @kfc, and @runwayml (congrats @jforozcop for the win) Still not exactly sure what the Generated Awards are, but it feels pretty good. Really gratifying to follow your gut and actually see progress. Onto the next one.

Some interesting analyses here. fyi @AntonEberhard @jacob_maroga (can’t believe I put both of you in the same line!) @nickhedley forbes.com/sites/we-dont-hav…

An interesting graphic. Look how embarrassingly small our GDP is (on the right-hand side). fyi @nickhedley @MichaelJordaan visualcapitalist.com/ranked-…

I love this. Demanding answers from those in power.

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

Josh is one of the most exceptional journalists, and people, I know. Please listen to his moving words here.

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

Claude is asked how it feels being used by the U.S. military.

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

#Scrabble fans! Try my new word game #Words90? Will definitely speed up your Scrabble word-spotting skills. And it’s totally free! (One day... one day when it has 100million users, maybe it’ll make money. Until then, it’s free as a bird) Words90.com

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism. It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the entire Right.

I confronted the russian ambassador at Venice Biennale because no one else did. In the last 24 hours russia bombed city centres & a kindergarten. Dozens murdered in the streets. The russian pavilion here is filled with free champagne & art to whitewash their war crimes.

I found this graphic interesting. For example, SA’s economy is smaller than Bangladesh’s. Who would have guess that? fyi @MichaelJordaan @nickhedley

This is quite something. The new Hungarian PM goes on state TV to announce the end of state TV.

A wounded man, offering no threat, next to a bombed vehicle in Lebanon 🇱🇧 An 🇮🇱 drone targets & murders him in cold blood And Israel 🇮🇱 then publish the footage A war crime. Pure & simple What has happened to international law? This is terrorism Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

This TV ad, which was broadcast back in 1971 during the Vietnam War, is weirdly relevant today. Fight for your slice

You could tell an American this was filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and they’d believe you. It’s Tehran.

I trained this @ltx_model LTX 2.3 LoRA of George Costanza at home on my 5090 in about a day with AI Toolkit. I generated this 30 second video with @ComfyUI on my 5090 in 6 minutes. Open source is, always has been, and always will be, the future of generative AI. (SOUND ON)

Reminder: this is still the greatest ad ever made.