[nonostantement #379] - spiritual delusions / daydreaming death / silent collapse
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Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: The State of A24
“Please understand, there’s a big difference between concept and story. Concept is a marketing term. And a good concept is something you can sell.” Tom Pollock, studio executive, Hollywood: The Oral History.AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT.On The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time.
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The Silent Collapse: Generative AI’s Erosion of Photo Licensing Revenue
Generative AI isn’t just reshaping image creation—it’s gutting stock photography agency revenues. This article quantifies the losses and what comes next.NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
For a few hours, 19,000 NFTS that Nike helped mint returned a Cloudflare error instead of the picture people promised would live forever online.
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Man killed in Valley road rage shooting provides own impact statement through AI
Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing.Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
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