Freelance copywriter, journalist, and screenwriter. He/Him. Website: https://xitter.gq/t.co/ttGze5TrX7 Bylines: @vice @ClashMagazine @indie_pendent @writingcoop
West Midlands, UK
Joined September 2015
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Dan Knight retweeted
Steroids. It's steroids. I don't know why everyone still insists on this weird industry-wide denial. It's fine. This isn't a professional sports competition. Steroids aren't illegal. They all do it with steroids.
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Scientists think we could be just years away from finally discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".
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Hundreds of politicians who armed, funded and cheered on the slaughter of 16,000+ children over the last 9 months are about to tell you that violence is a terrible thing that can never be excused or condoned.
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“political violence” is when violence is done to a politician. everything they cause is a different thing and you shouldn’t worry about it
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Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:
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Steve Albini, a Chicago-based rock producer who allied himself with Nirvana and against the corporatized music industry, has died. wapo.st/3QxEh2I
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It's illegal for me to be gay in my home country, Zimbabwe. Does that mean I think Zimbabwe should experience a military extermination? It doesn't. Because I'm not a psychotic asshole.
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what if your phone dies in the process of waiting for 5 cancelled trains for 4 hours
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There’s no way The Sopranos could get made in today’s society. They’d force a whole plot about a mob boss with ~anxiety~ going to therapy, both of his kids would be SJWs in interracial relationships, and there’d be a whole season about a gay mobster’s relationship struggles 🙄.
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OpenAI just released a model that can generate 1-minute videos.
You simply cannot argue that these models don't / won't compete with the content they're trained on, and the human creators behind that content.
What is the model trained on? Did the training data providers consent to their work being used? The total lack of info from OpenAI on this doesn't inspire confidence.
Across the AI industry, people's work is being exploited without consent to build products that compete with that work. This must be controlled by regulators.
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.
Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.
openai.com/sora
Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”
Dan Knight retweeted
Absolutely love this anecdote from Bob Mortimer’s autobiography about him meeting Sinéad O’Connor.
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Playboy interview 1967: fresh off the set of your new blockbuster movie, please tell us why you've become a communist.
Rolling Stone interview 2024: your work with Dove Body Wash to tell girls to be themselves is so important. why does everyone love you so much?
Dan Knight retweeted
Popular science magazine "Discover Magazine" used a cheap horribly disfigured AI generated image of a shark from Shutterstock in an article about megalodon, instead of hiring an artist that would've loved the opportunity to create an engaging & plausible scientific illustration.
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Where to even begin. A singular writer, whose lyrics have meant a great deal to me for about 20 years. A sensational frontman, an amazing interrupter of songwriting.
Not perfect, he was a punk - he sought to provoke, to tear things down. An incredible artist.
The death has been announced of Pogues frontman and songwriter Shane MacGowan. He was 65 and had been ill for some time rte.ie/entertainment/2023/11…
