Some people feared that AI would create highly credible fake news, but today I think it’s here precisely to destroy any credibility. Oh, those fake Epstein files. That fake Russian video wasn’t the president…
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Holy shit dude… WTF?
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This looks pretty real to me. Looks like a FLIR video in White-hot mode from a drone. The key discriminators for me are seeing the focus jitter as the video auto-focus kicks in at various points, and the bloom supression / auto gain control when the impact happens.
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She’s right, we shouldn’t be sad. We need to pour our emotions into productive actionable outcomes like arts and crafts, like building guillotines.
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It may only take a few AI stocks tumbling, and a more ambient disinclination to fund a technology that may be encouraging people to commit suicide, for the animal spirits to kick in and for everyone who made a giant directional bet on a technology in limbo to head for the exits.
Ironically, the cascade will be started by a chatbot telling an investor to sell.
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Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app
The fake chatbots, made by users of Character.AI, used synthetic voices for messages supposedly from the stars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/03/character-ai-celebrity-teen-safety/
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This reminds me of an article from Time magazine. I found it because the title was so memorable.
Basically, Ted Turner wanted to Colorize “Citizen Kane,” but Welles’ original contract from 1941 prevented it.
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