#VFX industry commentary mentioned in LATimes, NYTimes, Bloomberg, Variety, THR. Paid actor and shill of Dean Spanos.
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May 27
Been wondering what happened.
Making movies ain't so easy after all. trib.al/NEGtwj5
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Apr 22
Worked on this at Digital Domain. Think I’ll go cry now.
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Apr 21
Back in 2012 we met with lawmakers and helped write parts of the first version of the film tax law. I warned it wouldn’t work and they’d have to keep increasing amount. Last year they doubled it to $750M. Now they are talking about making it unlimited.
EXCLUSIVE: California has lost 51,000 production jobs in the last three years, prompting Matt Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa to call for eliminating the $750 million cap on the state's film subsidy. Ot
Other candidates are also open to an increase - but none has said how much it would cost.
variety.com/2026/politics/ne…
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Apr 4
When I worked at @imageworksvfx I met Ken Ralston who won an Oscar for Forrest Gump. He told me they had no idea the film was going to be a hit. In fact he remembered when they were shooting and at one point Zemeckis and him looked at each other and said “WTF are we doing here?”
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Apr 1
Either we accept this as a society, and set a precedent for allowing virtually all jobs to be replaced with almost no compensation.
Or we speak up now.
For artists. For writers. For musicians.
For everybody.
Apr 1
🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI and Google are about to have a massive legal problem.
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have repeatedly sworn to courts that their models do not store exact copies of copyrighted books.
They claim their "safety training" prevents regurgitation.
Researchers just dropped a paper called "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" that proves otherwise.
They didn't use complex jailbreaks or malicious prompts.
They just took GPT-4o, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and fine-tuned them on a normal, benign task: expanding plot summaries into full text.
The safety guardrails instantly collapsed.
Without ever seeing the actual book text in the prompt, the models started spitting out exact, verbatim copies of copyrighted books.
Up to 90% of entire novels, word-for-word. Continuous passages exceeding 460 words at a time.
But here is the part that changes everything.
They fine-tuned a model exclusively on Haruki Murakami novels.
It didn't just learn Murakami. It unlocked the verbatim text of over 30 completely unrelated authors across different genres.
The AI wasn't learning the text during fine-tuning.
The text was already permanently trapped inside its weights from pre-training. The fine-tuning just turned off the filter.
It gets worse.
They tested models from three completely different tech giants. All three had memorized the exact same books, in the exact same spots.
A 90% overlap. It's a fundamental, industry-wide vulnerability.
For years, AI companies have argued in court that their models are just "learning patterns," not storing raw data.
This paper provides the smoking gun.
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Everyone who works in Hollywood feels like they're enduring an economic depression. We proved it with data. The collapse of entertainment industry employment in five charts. wsj.com/business/media/see-h…
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Mar 30
So we’re in the “making shit up” portion of this.
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Mar 25
Great question. Anyone know? It was supposed to be released in theaters in May 2026.
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Mar 25
Or check how they changed their title and no longer call themselves AI filmmaker.
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Mar 25
If a prompt artist weeps in the forest on the death of Sora does it make a sound.
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Mar 25
Gary is a worthy follow!
Mar 25
And I toldya two years ago Sora would have trouble commercializing.
@sama shoulda listened to me.
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Mar 24
Find your favorite AI bro account and do a search on Sora from a year ago.
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Mar 24
Been saying this since the beginning. Generating AI videos are fun but it’s costly for OpenAI. IBM Watson failed and turned into a front for their consulting services. Now OpenAI needs to double human hires as consultants for companies who simply can’t figure out how to use it.
Mar 24
OpenAI to Shut Down the Sora Video App hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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Mar 19
AI moves so fast. Barely a month and he’s already been sidelined.
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Mar 19
Recently met a company that has an automated workflow to detect IP in AI videos and to collect rights payments immediately.
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Mar 17
YouTube just took a strong stance against AI slop
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Mar 18
Great laugh.
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