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Simon Fraser IV
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Simon Fraser IV
@SimonFraser4
Writer/producer @Jacked1980s.
Tkaronto Katılım Haziran 2008
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“I say, I say, this kernel of truth has a whole lot more husk on it than I remembuh.”
- Foghorn Leghorn
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@longi1974 @Variety Yes, that’s right, algorithms are just like a bulletin board. 👍
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@Variety So if I put a bulletin board up in town and everyone got addicted to sticking post-it messages to it and reading other peoples' messages, I would be liable for enabling their addiction by putting up the bulletin board. That is what this amounts to.
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A jury has ordered Meta and Google to pay $3M to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that she became addicted to Instagram and YouTube as a child:
• Jurors found the companies liable for product design features that harmed her mental health
• The plaintiff, Kaley G.M., testified that the apps replaced her hobbies and contributed to anxiety, depression and body dysmorphia
• The case is the first of thousands targeting Big Tech over addiction to reach trial, a “bellwether” to assess how other claims could be resolved
• Meta was ordered to pay 70% of the damages, with Google responsible for the remaining 30%
variety.com/2026/digital/n…
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@Artm40 @_Anunnery Please look up the definition of the word piracy. We’re all counting on you.
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@Variety What are all the "Hollywood is cooked" bros gonna eat now?
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OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform variety.com/2026/digital/n…
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@redherringdraws @neilturkewitz There is a barrier to entry to get listed on IMDb, albeit a low barrier. It’s possible that he does have the experience he claims to have but nobody has bothered to actually market the products to which he was attached because they aren’t any good.
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It’s still early in the year, but we already have a strong contender for worst take of 2026. This guy has the temerity to say “If you really care about storytellers & artists,” you should be backing AI projects. Odd that artists are saying the opposite, no? Gaslighting 2.0.
Marcus Pittman@ImKingGinger
The next billion dollar IP is being made right now by some guy making AI "slop" in his spare bedroom. South Park was a college film project, made from construction paper and an 8mm camera. Fox passed on it because one character was a talking piece of well, you know. George Clooney personally made hundreds of VHS copies and carried them around Hollywood. That "dumb college project" is worth $2.4 billion. Channel 101, a bar screening anyone could enter, produced Rick and Morty, The Lonely Island, Tim & Eric, and the directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once. The film establishment dismissed every single one of them before they were famous. The people dunking on AI filmmaking are the Fox exec who killed South Park over Mr. Hankey. Now is the time for to begin investing in and building pipelines for indie filmmakers. Create scouting, film festivals, and entertainment brands that turns meme-slop creators into rockstars and who own their own IP, without need to sell it to studios. If you really care about storytellers, and artists. This is where all your energy and capital should be positioned right now.
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@TheOtherFrost Yes, if someone sells AI gens in a shop, anyone could steal them and sell those gens in their own shop and the first shopkeeper would have no recourse to stop it.
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Not to be confrontational, but what is the business plan behind selling genAI drawings, games, movies, music when your customers could ALSO use genAI to make their own?
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@TheOtherFrost Yes, that is his whole thing. He doesn’t understand the concept you’re proposing b/c he doesn’t understand market value or supply chains or a chain of title or indemnification or liability.
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@AmericanGadfly2 Is your whole thing just ignoring that copyright exists for traditional art and that genAI has no copyright protection?
I'm not asking what gives traditional art value. I'm asking how would genAI make money?
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@PSpicker “77% of your files has signs of AI” ≠ “77% AI-generated”
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I tested something I'd written myself: my first academic article, published 45 years ago. It came in at 77% AI-generated.
Prof. Devi Sridhar@devisridhar
Exact same issue for me- I know my previous books and articles have been used to train AI (looking at you anthropic)- & when I run previous articles (written pre-AI) into AI checkers, they can come back as high as 90% AI. It's not artificial intelligence- it's collective human intelligence.
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@RyanPMcGowan @FinanceDirCFO @ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison Yes thank you for repeating my point again.
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@SimonFraser4 @FinanceDirCFO @ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison You cannot discern how the program works from the output it provides. It is like suggesting you know how a phone works because you've seen pictures on a screen.
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AI detectors can't even detect the presence of AI properly.
If they can't even do that, I'm not inclined to think they'll be doing anything useful any time soon.
The entire sector is a con...
Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum
This AI text detector says Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was written by AI.
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@RyanPMcGowan @FinanceDirCFO @ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison Yes, that is my point. Holding as evidence a false positive on a 150yo speech presupposes the app has been programmed to discern generative AI text output in the style of 19th Century oratory. The test subject is anachronistic.
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@SimonFraser4 @FinanceDirCFO @ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison I think it's silly to presuppose how any of these tools work at all.
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@RyanPMcGowan @FinanceDirCFO @ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison You think it’s silly that computer programs have specific functions?
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@audiophilestyle @davidclowery That’s the model SoundCloud switched to a few years ago. And pretty much overnight, the per stream rate on the assets I manage was 6x what it had been with a pooled model.
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@davidclowery The percentage of fixed pool revenue enables streaming fraud to flourish as well. If a person’s monthly payment was split between rights holders/artists s/he actually listened to, fraud would go down.
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The stream rate would be the same. The main economic advantage of having a hit is that the band's fixed and overhead costs would be allocated over a greater number of streams, clawing some revenue back. Also when you have hits other sources of revenue like licensing and live revenues expand. Streaming pay as a percentage of a fixed pool of revenue is still the stupidest thing the music industry has ever done.
Cap'n Ken@capnken
@davidclowery Dig your insight and unique perspective, David. Would love to see a "if Cracker hit today" sort of financial analysis - totally different world top to bottom, it seems.
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@randalltemple @LuizaJarovsky If someone punches you in the face, does that mean you want to be punched in the face?
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I agree with the sentiment, but unfortunately the "nobody wants it" narrative falsifies itself. If people truly didn't read or want AI content, it wouldn't be an issue. The reality is they do consume it, buy it, and give it their attention. Any next step has to be grounded in that reality.
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Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles.
Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky
Nobody wants to read AI-generated books.
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@FinanceDirCFO @ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison It depends on a) what format is being analyzed, and b) what patterns the detection algorithms are designed to detect. If it hasn’t been programmed to detect speech patterns from the late 19C and you feed it speech from the late 19C, you’re using it wrong.
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@ednewtonrex @MrEwanMorrison I can definitely see the advantages in AI detectors...provided they work.
Any which score the Declaration of Independence as AI generated are worse than useless though...
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@Gwennammonty @NJSimmondsbooks I’m 100% sure that if you wrote anything, there are at least 1-5 pieces of evidence that could validate, either single-handedly or cumulatively, that you are indeed the author of what was written. Even a hobbyist has project files.
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@SimonFraser4 @NJSimmondsbooks Then we have different opinions on this. I’ve written four books and my paper trail has become exponentially less. I write in a certain genre, I don’t need a paper trail for research information when I’ve already studied it previously.
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Believe me, most authors have notebooks, mood boards and 50 drafts before the final ms. It's not hard to prove it came from your head!!
Becki is Agented!!!@roo_richardson
re: the AI book being pulled at Hachette - though I agree we shouldn’t let AI ‘books’ be published, how are they making sure to be absolutely 100% certain it was indeed written with AI? Because if there isn’t a definitive system in place this could become very messy for authors
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@davidclowery The only way to go undetected is by blending in with legit traffic. He likely also generated millions of fraudulent stream for the other artists he was blending in with. Easier to blend in with the most popular artists who are already getting millions of streams.
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How do you generate billions of bot streams without being detected? Thats the real story.
FearBuck@FearedBuck
The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million
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@Gwennammonty @NJSimmondsbooks That is incorrect. The better an author gets, the wider their “paper trail” becomes. They’ve pitched their story to others for feedback. They’ve done more research into their subject matter. Only the most amateur write in a vacuum with nothing to show for it.
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@NJSimmondsbooks The caveat I see with this is that as a writer improves their skill they use less mood boards, less notes and have less refinements. Even if they’ve not prev published, they’ve written several books and put the time into honing their craft, so the “evidence” is going to lessen
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@DanFriedman81 @bcmerchant 30 years, not 15. Cat videos were the OG slop in the 1990s.
A physical asset does have inherent value - the materials and labour that went into its production.
Both physical and digital assets have the inherent value of the author’s brand.
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We are already living in a slop apocalypse and have been for 15 years. The premise that a book has an inherent value broke down a long time ago.
Every insane subliterate thing that used to die in a slush pile is now getting self-published. And a lot of readers are happy buying stuff we all think is unreadable if it costs $0.99.
Romance writers make a living crapping out 25 novels a year written precisely to a formula and putting them on Kindle.
Now they’re using AI to put out 200 a year. What’s the difference? How can you ensloppify that which is already slop?
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Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed.
Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse.
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@JadeCole2112 “Security guards won’t make eye contact”
Hahahahahaha.
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