AI Is Not the Solution

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'Nobody publishes a word that is not the cowardly robot ravings of a depraved mentality'

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
11:30 1A, Getting started & Natasha Lyonne
39:20 1B, The quick embrace of AI
55:44 1C, Hollywood is already using it
1:06:24 1D, Closing the education gap
1:13:17 2, A.I., Solutions
1:29:17 End

Kay articles / sites quoted:
Roger Cheng for TheWrap, 'AI is Still a Dirty Word...': https://www.thewrap.com/ai-hollywood-negative-stigma-is-a-problem/
Roger Cheng for TheWrap, 'Making Sense of the Billion Dollar AI Mega Deals': https://www.thewrap.com/ai-deals-valuations-explained/
Lila Shapiro for Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/generative-ai-hollywood-movies-tv.html
Ed Zitron, How to Argue With an AI Booster: https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/

Videos quoted / mentioned:
Kimiko Glenn and residuals: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskimiko/video/6904342710782676229
TED and Sam Altman: https://www.youtube.com/live/5MWT_doo68k?si=1iILr8WWUgnwI_Ph
Kyle the Scott on Tilly Norwood: https://youtu.be/JnCX5C08UZI?si=TiqmD-PB17euIIYR
Dust2Us with phzy on Wildcard and ChatGPT: https://youtu.be/xMirfFTHEBM

Book quoted:
Karen Hao, Empire of AI, Allen Lane, 2025.

Other articles / webpages quoted:
(I)
MIT study: https://web.archive.org/web/20250818145714mp_/https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf
Economist, vibe valuing: https://www.economist.com/business/2025/06/25/ai-valuations-are-verging-on-the-unhinged
(1A)
Variety on Lyonne and Asteria: https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/natasha-lyonne-uncanny-valley-ai-filmmaking-1236381273/
Rolling Stone on same: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/natasha-lyonne-ai-film-uncanny-valley-1235328159/
Asteria website: https://www.asteriafilm.com/
Moonvalley site: https://www.moonvalley.com/
The Hollywood Reporter on Lyonne and Asteria: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/natasha-lyonne-ai-film-uncanny-valley-hybrid-film-project-1236206729/
Deadline, on the same, also Lyonne's 'phone bad' comments: https://deadline.com/2025/04/natasha-lyonne-uncanny-valley-directorial-debut-copyright-clean-ai-1236382007/
Coleman Spilde's piece in Salon: https://www.salon.com/2025/06/29/natasha-lyonne-has-a-big-ai-problem/
Fortune's misleading piece on the MIT study: https://fortune.com/2025/08/21/an-mit-report-that-95-of-ai-pilots-fail-spooked-investors-but-the-reason-why-those-pilots-failed-is-what-should-make-the-c-suite-anxious/
(1B)
Axios on OpenAI numbers: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/21/sam-altman-openai-trump-dc-fed
(1C)
Peter Debruge in Variety on the Spherizard of Oz: https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/the-wizard-of-oz-at-sphere-review-augmented-ai-technology-1236501765/
Variety on Ted Sarandos' recent AI walkback: https://variety.com/2025/film/global/ted-sarandos-guillermo-del-toro-stop-motion-studio-ai-debate-1236545720/]
TheVerge's Charles Pulliam-Moore on Primordial Soup: https://www.theverge.com/film/686729/ancestra-darren-aronofsky-eliza-mcnitt-google-ai-veo
(1D)
Deadline on Arcana Labs: https://deadline.com/2025/04/ai-content-platform-arcana-labs-raises-5-5-million-1236369763/
(2)
The Verge, Mooser, democratising: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/694687/asteria-bryn-mooser-uncanny-valley-gen-ai
Altman and Dario Amodei on AI fixing climate change:
https://ia.samaltman.com/
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace
Climate Change AI website: https://www.climatechange.ai/

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