Sam Altman is certifiable.

What could go wrong?

Don’t believe any photos or video you see unless you or someone you know took them.

#AIisaConGame

For anyone who cares about privacy and free expression, this is really important 👇

BREAKING: Billions of Pentagon dollars are shifting to Silicon Valley and Big Tech, according to our latest research. The top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

And there you have it.
Looks like it was done with last year’s #AI tech, but there will be many more to come, done with more recent tech. (Via: Banana Nicole Smith 🍌)
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DALLAS! Fun time for you Wed 4/17. Get tickets here: posh.vip/f/c9b1?t=duke2…

The formidable Justine Bateman is helping me sort through my own wrestling with Fame - brushing against it, being over-shadowed by it, villifying it, but also craving it so that I just might be seen a little bit by the world. Grateful.

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Next in #FilmClub is Mary Harron’s AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000).
Watch beforehand and come discuss 4/22, 4pPT on Clubhouse
clubhouse.com/invite/RXpcVEp…

New poster alert for my latest film, FEEL.

LOFL, just read the bill. It’s totally useless. We already KNOW all the work “publicly available” has been scraped for training sets; we don’t need to be “notified” of it. This is like telling a car thief that he must tell you he’s stolen your car, but he can go ahead & keep it.

To quote a friend,
“Just call it a RapeCam.”
#AI
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Cue the population decline. #AI

The irony is that very few of supporters of this proposed act are copyright holders. The act a step in the right direction, but it’s a shame that the artists behind many of these works will still have no say in whether or not their work or likeness is put in the #AI blender.

Next in #FilmClub is Orson Wells’ OTHELLO (1951).
Watch beforehand and come discuss 4/15, 4pmPT on Clubhouse.
clubhouse.com/invite/aXOcwJX…

This is shit. I’m embarrassed for this legendary band. Nothing was “created.” Artists’ work was stolen to train this computer program, that someone promoted to spit out a Frankenstein spoonful. Pink Floyd should use actual art made by an actual artist. #AIisTheft

Countdown to the Akashic Books party in LA. Come to my book publisher’s event and meet some bona fide authors. Pick up my books “Face” and “Fame” at the event, or here: akashicbooks.com/author/justine…