Larry J. Cohen
@larryjcohen.com
Writer of TV, Film and Comics | WGAE
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Until people leave these platforms profitting off viral grifts all together, it’s only going to keep getting worse.
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Until people leave these platforms profitting off viral grifts all together, it’s only going to keep getting worse.
I’ll be talking all things Screenwriting, A.I. and Labor tomorrow at @caveatnyc.bsky.social.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’ll be talking all things Screenwriting, A.I. and Labor tomorrow at @caveatnyc.bsky.social.
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Things every writer should know about A.I. on the latest @wgaeast.bsky.social OnWriting podcast.
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Episode 131: WGAE AI Task Force Roundtable with Larry J. Cohen, Sarah Montana and A.M. Homes
Podcast Episode · OnWriting: A Podcast of the WGA East · 11/20/2025 · 1h 4m
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November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Things every writer should know about A.I. on the latest @wgaeast.bsky.social OnWriting podcast.
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Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of awful shit Corporate A.I. does every day… if there’s a federal ban on state A.I. laws, it would be a Twinkie… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of awful shit Corporate A.I. does every day… if there’s a federal ban on state A.I. laws, it would be a Twinkie… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
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AI Photos - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Miyazaki: This is an insult to life itself. www.theverge.com/news/812545/...
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
www.theverge.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Miyazaki: This is an insult to life itself. www.theverge.com/news/812545/...
This 👏 technology 👏 is 👏 not 👏 reliable.
AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows reut.rs/4qkIfvx
AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC.
reut.rs
October 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This 👏 technology 👏 is 👏 not 👏 reliable.
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To answer a question in this @thr.com article:
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
To answer a question in this @thr.com article:
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
When all else fails…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.
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ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When all else fails…
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Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
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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.
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 “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:
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October 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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.
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.
Go on. Tell me more. deadline.com/2025/10/mpa-...
MPA Chairman Says OpenAI Bears Responsibility For Preventing Sora 2 From Infringing On Copyright
The MPA issued a statement on the release of Sora 2.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Go on. Tell me more. deadline.com/2025/10/mpa-...
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Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop
Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop
The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop
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The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
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www.404media.co/openais-sora...
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MOUNTAINHEAD (2025), dir. Jesse Armstrong
I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.
October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
MOUNTAINHEAD (2025), dir. Jesse Armstrong
The best dunk is the one you never see coming.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The best dunk is the one you never see coming.
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Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike.
📽️📅 Network (1976)
📽️📅 Network (1976)
September 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike.
📽️📅 Network (1976)
📽️📅 Network (1976)
Did someone say infinite ‘content' driven by free labor and billions of ad-profits to whoever controls those platforms?
83% of US adults haven't paid for news in the last year.
About half (49%) say their main reason is they can find plenty of free news elsewhere.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
About half (49%) say their main reason is they can find plenty of free news elsewhere.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Did someone say infinite ‘content' driven by free labor and billions of ad-profits to whoever controls those platforms?
With so much media uncertainty right now, this one hit particularly hard. www.shortoftheweek.com/news/vimeo-s...
Bending Spoons Buys Vimeo - Here’s What It Could Mean
Bending Spoons acquires Vimeo - SotW co-founder (and former Head of Staff Picks) Jason Sondhi explores what the buyout means for the platform and its users.
www.shortoftheweek.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
With so much media uncertainty right now, this one hit particularly hard. www.shortoftheweek.com/news/vimeo-s...
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run program graft.exe
Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption (Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
run program graft.exe
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Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.
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This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
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Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
Few things make me laugh cry as hard as the silent version of “Dancing in the Streets.”
Before landing on the Motown cover, the duo’s plan was to do Bob Marley’s “One Love.” David Mallet’s “Dancing In The Street” video was filmed two months prior and debuted at Live Aid. Bowie was a big fan of the “silent” parody of the video that went viral in 2016.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Few things make me laugh cry as hard as the silent version of “Dancing in the Streets.”
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Statutory damages for this kind of piracy start at $750 per infringed work. Because the library amassed by Anthropic was thought to contain approximately seven million works, the AI company was potentially facing court-imposed penalties amounting to billions, or even over $1 trillion dollars.
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
www.wired.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Statutory damages for this kind of piracy start at $750 per infringed work. Because the library amassed by Anthropic was thought to contain approximately seven million works, the AI company was potentially facing court-imposed penalties amounting to billions, or even over $1 trillion dollars.