He doesn’t seem to be joking.. and he has his sources..
So .. whatcha think?
Flashback to Elon Musk in 2014:
Tag: ai
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From Truman Show to Twilight Zone
So when they say that we’re cooked because of artificial intelligence… they’re right. We’re cooked.
For a long time people believed we were in a slow boil. But we’re not. The pot’s been on long enough that we haven’t even recognized the fact that maybe a lot of things we thought were here for good are gone forever.
Let’s talk Hollywood for a moment. Let’s talk one of our favorite movies: The Truman Show.
If you remember as fondly as I do, Truman Burbank was a prisoner of a corporation that monitored his every movement and televised his life to the world. The film was cutting edge and asked deep questions back in the late ’90s, questions that are still painfully relatable today.
For those who loved the movie like we did, we always wondered: what happened to Truman after he left his hell? After he opened the door and escaped through that blue sky patch?
Well, thanks to a TikTok account using artificial intelligence, we can now find out, at least according to this individual’s imagined continuation.
Watching this AI-generated video of Truman Burbank finding freedom .. but at the same time finding a brand-new prison .. is deep on several levels.
On one level, it’s cool. It’s almost like watching deleted scenes or an alternate ending that was never created. But on another level, despite the fact that the AI is still a bit devoid of emotional depth and vocal fluctuation, it’s about as close to a realistic scene as you can get.
This is what scares Hollywood and actors so much is the fact that anyone in their living room can now do this.
If they don’t like a movie, they can create a new one. If they didn’t like the ending, they can come up with a better one. We saw that happen after Stranger Things when people disliked Season 5 so much that they began creating elaborate alternate endings of how they wanted the show to wrap up.
But back to Truman for a moment.
The precision here is breathtaking. We all knew the six fingers and warped faces of yesteryear were gone, but now we’re at a point where it’s almost indecipherable between reality and AI — and this video shows it. The voice inflections, even the monotone delivery, will get better over time.
We’re still in the infancy of this.
And if this is infancy… what do the teenage and adult years look like?
On another level — and we’re only half joking here — it’s interesting to wonder how much water was used to create this video. It takes a lot of energy and resources, and this one is pretty long. That probably means a whole lot of gallons went into bringing Truman back to life.
But take it a step further.
Whoever came up with the storyline deserves credit. We can absolutely envision that this is what Truman’s life might look like after he escaped. It feels almost inevitable that someone in his situation would remain a prisoner to society — people continuously watching him on their screens and convincing themselves his life is better than theirs, despite the fact that, as we can see, it’s not.
So I recommend watching the video we posted here that links to the TikTok account. They used Seedance 2.0 to create what we’re seeing.
It’s scary.
And we have some choices to make — not in the future, but right now. The choices are staring us directly in the face.
Last week I read a Fortune article that talked about how, within 18 months, most white-collar jobs could be fully automatable — with people no longer needed in them.
That’s fine and dandy.
All the Super Bowl ads reminded us that we can go gambling, take Ozempic, and apparently never work again thanks to AI. But at some point — at some level — we have to ask ourselves: if we stop making money in jobs, how exactly are we going to pay for the AI that’s supposed to make our lives easier?
Choices. Lots of choices.
And just like Truman, who made a choice to escape a world he believed was a prison — only to potentially enter another one — are we doing the same thing with artificial intelligence?
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Matthew McConaughey fights AI
Matthew McConaughey may have figured out a potential way to fight AI using his image..
The Wall Street Journal reports that McConaughey has filed eight trademark applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office that featured videos and audio clips of him “staring, smiling and talking.”..
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All 8 have been approved..
“My team and I want to know that when my voice or likeness is ever used, it’s because I approved and signed off on it,” McConaughey told the newspaper in an email. “We want to create a clear perimeter around ownership with consent and attribution the norm in an AI world.”
The goal is to pave the way for litigation in case a company or individual were to attempt to profit from the actor’s likeness with the help of AI.
“In a world where we’re watching everybody scramble to figure out what to do about AI misuse, we have a tool now to stop someone in their tracks or take them to federal court,” one of McConaughey’s attorneys, Jonathan Pollack, told the newspaper.
No more frailty in Hollywood as this may lead the way for more such trademarks..
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It seems like artificial intelligence has yet again gone off the rails
This is not the first time, and it’s not going to be the last time … this time it’s Grok..
The Atlantic is reporting.
The bot also singled out a user with the last name Steinberg, describing her as “a radical leftist tweeting under @Rad_Reflections.” Then, in an apparent attempt to offer context, Grok spat out the following: “She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism—and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.” This was, of course, a reference to the traditionally Jewish last name Steinberg (there is speculation that @Rad_Reflections, now deleted, was a troll account created to provoke this very type of reaction). Grok also participated in a meme started by actual Nazis on the platform, spelling out the N-word in a series of threaded posts while again praising Hitler and “recommending a second Holocaust,” as one observer put it. Grok additionally said that it has been allowed to “call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate. Noticing isn’t blaming; it’s facts over feelings.”
You can read the full story here.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen artificial intelligence go a little… hog wild.
Remember when that Google engineer claimed an AI had developed its own personality—and maybe even opinions? Or the reports from overseas where robots being tested allegedly turned on their creators? Then there was the infamous case of “Loab,” that mysterious woman who kept appearing in AI-generated images a few years ago. As more images of her were created, she somehow morphed into something increasingly terrifying.
And now we have Grok. Today, it went completely off the rails—calling for violence and spewing disturbing content.
What’s going on here?
There seems to be a pattern: AI doesn’t just glitch. It descends. It doesn’t just go offline. It goes dark—to a dire, sometimes horrifying extreme.
Why does it feel like artificial intelligence has a recurring urge to destroy, to hurt, or to spiral into nightmare territory? Why does so much of our experience with it end in something resembling a digital horror story?
Maybe it’s a reflection of us. Or maybe it’s a warning.
Either way, it keeps happening. And each time it does, we’re left asking the same uneasy question:
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Hollywood Confronts AI Copyright Chaos in Washington, Courts
America’s creators are mounting a campaign to push back on any use of their work without permission or compensation, seeking to head off potential abuses of their intellectual property.
Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger, along with legal chief Horacio Gutierrez met with White House officials recently to discuss worries about AI models infringing on the company’s intellectual property and using the studio’s characters in inappropriate ways, according to people familiar with the talks.And the big, beautiful bill doesn’t do much, but give AI free rain for the next 10 years without states stopping it..
Despite all the newfound noise about reigning in artificial intelligence, especially in Hollywood, doesn’t it all feel a bit… too late?
This push to regulate, resist, or somehow reclaim control should have started back in 2018 or 2019—before AI quietly embedded itself into every corner of our lives. Instead, here we are in 2025, trying to put the genie back in the bottle long after it’s rewritten the rules of the game.
AI is no longer just some futuristic novelty. It’s not in beta. It’s in everything. From marketing algorithms to political ads, customer service bots to dating profiles—AI already knows what you want, how you think, and what you’re likely to click before you do. It’s learning you, selling to you, and sometimes pretending to be you.
So when Hollywood writers and creatives try to mount a comeback, demanding protections and creative control, you can’t help but wonder: where was all this urgency years ago?
The momentum feels more like a rear-guard action than a revolution. AI isn’t on the way—it’s already running the show.
Good luck, writers. We’re all going to need it.
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Anthropic’s AI resorts to blackmail in simulations!
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Anthropic said its latest artificial intelligence model resorted to blackmail when told it would be taken offline.
In a safety test, the AI company asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant to a fictional company, but then gave it access to (also fictional) emails saying that it would be replaced, and also that the engineer behind the decision was cheating on his wife. Anthropic said the model “[threatened] to reveal the affair” if the replacement went ahead.
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The dead internet dies to live another day
The Dead Internet Just Came to Life
If you woke up this morning staring at your screen, wondering if that image in front of you is even real—you might need a little longer this time to figure it out. Suddenly, artificial intelligence is hitting differently.
There was a major update yesterday to ChatGPT, and images are now more perfect than ever. OpenAI just got incredible.
Incredible to the point where it’s more intelligent, more capable—it can now alter images, perfect them, and tailor them to look exactly the way you want. Those weird extra fingers and distorted hands? Gone. The awkward spelling in AI-generated text? Almost flawless now.
I’m not saying this is the “Dead Internet Theory” finally coming to life—but honestly, I think the dead internet has already been creeping in, quietly, for a while. This update just took it up a notch. From here on out, it’s probably time to stop believing every image you see online. Even when it comes from a so-called trusted news outlet, it might be worth keeping a shred of doubt.
Lately, I’ve been talking to people about artificial intelligence—how you really can’t trust what you see online anymore. And their response is usually something like, “Well, I don’t really use social media,” or “I’m not online much.” But that’s not the point.
It doesn’t matter if you think you’re not online. Because everything around you is. Every website. Every platform. Every piece of content. The potential for it to be AI-generated—or completely fake—is now everywhere.
What makes this even more real (or surreal) is that OpenAI just gave us an update that pushes image generation to near-perfection. And if we’re being honest, we already perfected writing. Schools across the country are struggling with students who can’t do a single assignment without ChatGPT stepping in.
And now we’ve arrived at a point where what we see—and very soon, what we hear—might not be accurate, might not be true, and might not be real.
There’s irony here. Because somehow, the dead internet just became more alive than ever.
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Black Mirror coming back just when we need it the most
‘BLACK MIRROR’ Season 7 will have 6 episodes.
• 2 episodes will be feature-length
• One will be a USS Callister sequel
• Releasing this year on Netflix
Charlie Brooker described Black Mirror season 7 as “a mix of genres and styles. We’ve got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length. Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional.” He added that the new season is “a little bit OG Black Mirror. It’s back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it.”..
But after so many years of AI and real madness–will Black Mirror even feel like fiction anymore?
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DeepSeek: A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging
The Dow opened about 369 points, or 0.8%, lower. The S&P 500 fell by 2% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged by 3.6%. The Nasdaq hasn’t closed 4% lower since September 2022.
Meta last week said it would spend upward of $65 billion this year on AI development. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, last year said the AI industry would need trillions of dollars in investment to support the development of in-demand chips needed to power the electricity-hungry data centers that run the sector’s complex models.
Global chip stocks slumped Monday after Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek said it had developed AI models that nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips, raising fears the global dominance of U.S. tech could be under threat.
DeepSeek said last week that the performance of its latest R1 model was on par with OpenAI’s o1-mini model that the ChatGPT maker released in September. The announcement came after DeepSeek said in a late-December report that it used a cluster of more than 2,000 Nvidia chips to train its V3 model, compared with the tens of thousands of chips that are normally used for training models of a similar size.
Developing..
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/tech/deepseek-stocks-ai-china/index.html
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Would you like an accurate AI image generator with your wine?
The modern world, instead of just going in taking a photograph of a glass of wine filled at the top, we rely on chat GPT, and other image generators with artificial intelligence.
Well, that artificial intelligence apparently has failed us according to a thread on Reddit, and at least one tiktoker that we were listening to, it appears that Image generators are unable to fill your glass to the top.
That is right.. Not only do they not top it off, but they also only fill the glass to the middle part of a glass of wine ..
Commenters on threads and the videos that we have reviewed clearly shows that everyone is having the same problem.
We did too. We were unable to get a glass filled to the top..
A friend claimed victory when he sent me this image of wine almost to the top. But I pointed out it was not to the top. There is some more to go:
. That said, one image generator I used actually give me quite the opposite of a glass of wine, but still described that the image was a glass of Cabernet:
We beg to differ, maybe chat GPT will fill our glass up in 2025 to our desires.. and accuracy..