Truly vile that Adobe are opting to kill Animate/Flash with no contingencies in place for the thousands of animators (including EVERY SINGLE ONE I work with) who are going to lose access to the program they've been mastering for up to 3 decades. This is an industry-killing move.

this is making me cry. he could cure cancer, he could cure fucking cancer and spare millions the agony of the disease and he has to beg on TV for funds instead of gold falling right into his lap.

"The asbestos of the internet" is the best description of AI I've heard yet. Always knew Jervis was a real one

Kanishka Narayan MP OpenAI Microsoft Partnering with companies that build their products by stealing creatives’ work is a bad way to build trust.

The UK’s AI minister is boosting AI companies that exploit British citizens’ copyrighted work without permission, calling them “superstars”. Why is Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy MP not standing up for the creative industries? Is this now just a government of pirates?

The CEO of ElevenLabs blocked me for asking what they train their models on. I’m told he also explicitly told employees not to reply to me when I asked this. Execs at billion-dollar AI companies have a very thin skin when asked about their training data. This is because it

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly

Creatives in the UK - please fill out this government survey about generative AI. It is a chance to affect their thinking. (It officially closed yesterday but seems still to be accepting responses.) surveymonkey.com/r/KNSJJB5?fbcl…

He’s just flat out lying. Hollywood writers hate AI and have been fighting against it. They want you guys to think this stuff is being normalized by the masses when it’s not

I have a website about Traditional Chinese Medicine that I spent literal years building. When I asked questions to Claude about the topic, it parroted almost word-for-word what I myself wrote. So please spare us the gaslighting about training AI on others' work...

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more. These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

Artist-washing (verb): to intentionally distract from AI models’ exploitation of creators’ life’s work by finding individual artists willing to use those models

The UK government is hugely overstating how many people their new ‘AI Growth Zone’ will employ. They announced that it will create 800 full-time jobs. I submitted an FOI request for their calculations, and the real number is probably below 300. Their headline figure was even

Rutger Bregman This is brilliant. Media Capture Watch has a full dataviz of relationships between media & tech firms & why it matters. I get why Axios & News Corp made purely capitalist decision to take $ but independent progressive news orgs should be nowhere near this nananwachukwu.github.io/media-capture-…

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to. Apart

People are becoming way too comfortable about being horrible human beings

The reason this is tripping people's AI alarm bells is something I've talked about before. It's more like photography in motion rather than what we normally think of as video. I'll explain how that relates to an "AI aesthetic": The photographer here has taken 210 high-res images

There's a toxic culture coming out of the AI industry that keeps trying to get us not to think. The message is everywhere. Don’t read the code, just vibe-code. Don’t try to understand all the text, just let AI summarize it. Don’t bother educating yourself, it’s too late. Don’t