Cinema Ex Machina

So happy we went with @ghost.org

Can’t wait to see it 🙋‍♂️

because of AI, how many concurrent episodes of silicon valley are happening right now in the bay area?

2. @standard.site with @ghost.org as an easy plugin please! I am ready

I’m excited to show you what I’m working on

hi atproto, I’ve chosen instagram and Bluesky as my main platforms to lean on in launching this newsletter.

1. I successfully am able to upload video via api but man a. It’s complicated and b. 100MB?! I will be doing an additional encode just for you @bsky.app

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

This is the stuff Ed, stoked to see it

In the next month or so I intend to do The Hater’s Guide To Adobe

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

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tfw you’re posting about the importance of lifting up independent film, and then you watch an independent film so bad…

Fans thought they were buying Hilary Duff's signature. Instead, they may have gotten automation. That backlash may preview how audiences will react to AI entertainment. marsmag.substack.com/p/hilary-duf...

My human brain says this is bad. But let’s ask ChatGPT

US AI giant accuses Chinese rivals of mass data theft Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot

please…my stolen data…it’s been stolen www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

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I like him!

Since @Variety can't be bothered to use their account on here:

Stellen Skarsgard on the the growing presence of AI in the movie industry:

"For thousands of years, people have been very much interested in people. Describing people is what theatre does, what film does — and what we do best.

Coming soon…

Despite its positioning as the trustworthy, “nice” AI lab, Anthropic is as big, ugly and wasteful as OpenAI, and Dario Amodei is an even bigger bullshit artist than Sam Altman. It burns just as much of its revenue on inference (59% - or $2.79 billion on $4.5 billion of revenue, versus OpenAI’s $2.5 billion (62%) on $4.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2025, if you use The Information’s numbers), and shows no sign of any “efficiency” or “cost-cutting.” Worse still, Anthropic continually abuses its users through varying rate limits to juice revenues and user numbers - along with Amodei’s gas-leak-esque proclamations - to mislead the media, the general public and investors about the financial condition of the company. Based on an analysis of many users’ actual token burn on Claude Code, I believe Anthropic is burning anywhere from $3 to $20 to make $1, and that the product that users are using (and the media is raving about) is not one that Anthropic can actually support long-term. I also see signs that Amodei himself is playing fast and loose with financial metrics in a way that will blow up in his face if Anthropic ever files its paperwork to go public. In simpler terms, Anthropic’s alleged “38% gross margins” may, if we are to believe Amodei’s own words, not the result of “revenue minus COGS” but “how much a model cost and how much revenue it’s generated.” Anthropic is also making promises it can’t keep. It’s promising to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure (and an additional "up to one gigawatt”), “tens of billions” on Google Cloud, $21 billion on Google TPUs with Broadcom, “$50 billion on American infrastructure,” as much as $3 billion on Hut8’s data center in Louisiana, and an unknowable (yet likely in the billions) amount of money with Amazon Web Services. Not to worry, Dario also adds that if you’re off by a couple of years on your projections of revenue and ability to pay for compute, it’ll be “ruinous.” I think that’s he’s right. Anthropic cann…

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