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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 9h

Imagine the pies you could put on that windowsill.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 11h

In case you were wondering why Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are out there ceaselessly promoting how "AI" is the fuuuture

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 11h

The article Javi is reacting to here claims to quote anonymous showrunners, and at first I was like who the eff is that reporter talking to and then I see he's not a reporter, he's a former Netflix exec who now owns a production company and I doubt he's ever made a show under a WGA contract.

javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 11h

a few years ago i sincerely believed it to be the duty of artists to take these tools and show the world how to use them humanely and respectfully. i don’t believe that any more. every time i have tried i have left the experience frustrated and angry…

pjrodriguez.bsky.social @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 13h

@okbjgm.bsky.social uh wut theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 11h

One of the emails you would have received at purchase from FastSpring, the reseller, has a link to your receipt/invoice. If you'd like to send an email to support at fadeinpro.com from the email you used to purchase, I can have it re-sent to you.

Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 12h

They may not know they're saying it, but they're saying it.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 12h

When someone uses or shares "AI" generated images, video, text, etc. they are condoning the unfettered, outright theft that makes any of it possible. They are saying they do not want new art, movies, books, music, or anything else.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 16h

these pieces of shit stole my life’s work for their robots and want to MAYBE give me 3000 retroactive dollars for their theft. get absolutely fucked

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 13h

It is ALL MARKETING.

Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 14h

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 1d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 1d

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

FADE IN: APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

I *think* it's the damned youths responsible for this somehow? knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-we...

Are Were Once They Are Did | Know Your Meme

Are Were Once They Are Did is a copypasta and phrasal template meme that originated on Twitter / X in mid-September 2025. The template typically reads, "X

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2d

Lawmakers are not only clueless but often unfortunately pretty dumb. Economics are a far more powerful force.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2d

Decent people's greatest power in the face of this slop and garbage is economic: to deny companies what they want (you and your money), to punish them similarly, and to relentlessly shame those who use and promote it.

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2d

Please tell me that the Williams family will sue OpenAI out of existence.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3d

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 3d

IF you are going to Pan’s Labyrinth’s Screening at Beyond Fest in LA… Don’t make plans after that… Feed the parking meter.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 4d

I happen to have it on good authority that "Jessica" is 100% "AI"-generated so venture capitalists go nuts that's gotta be worth a check for $100-$150 million at least.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 4d

If you don't like working with talented creative people why the fuck even be in the movie business. There's far more money in insurance or tires.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. a Hollywood studio chief was crowing about how great A.I. is because he wouldn’t have to pay ‘all these idiot producers and actors and lighting people and composers and writers and agents.’”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · Aug 20

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 20

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

fortune.com

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 4d

And because there's zero contribution, with time this is inevitably totally destructive, but of course none of them care because ka-ching. They are the worst result of our modern world and the most venal parts of human nature.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 4d

Hedge funds and tech bros are exactly the problem with so many things: people who have figured out just where in the chain to insert themselves without actually contributing anything but still taking all the money.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10d

I’m never going to stop being mad that hedge funds and tech middlemen siphoned off all the money that should’ve let someone like Kaleb Horton have the career he deserved

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 6d

It turns out that having billionaires is really bad for literally everyone else.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 6d

There are many useful applications for machine-learning technology. However none of them are as flashy or as investor-seducing or media-baiting as slop generation.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 6d

Every single thing OpenAI has done has made the world a stupider, worse, uglier place.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 6d

With any good comes some bad. Sure, OpenAI lets you make up Nazi footage with real people and put them into fake security cam crime videos, but don't forget that it *also* lets you make Studio Ghibli ripoffs that attack the very soul of the man who brought you that joy in the first place.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d

I tested Sora's AI video "guardrails" and I'm honestly shocked how much OpenAI allows. Really, really bad

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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