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• AI is the new villain in Hollywood movies

• Google gets hit with a familiar lawsuit

• A CEO makes significant cuts thanks to chatbots

• Kevin Roose details Anthropic’s decisions before they released Claude

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THE TREND CONTINUES: AI IS THE BAD GUY

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One was stuck (and decided on the longest title possible). COVID hit and paused productions everywhere. Fast forward to today, and the movie is out in theaters after a two-year delay.

So it’s remarkable how timely the story is, given how old the script is. In case you didn’t know, the main villain in this two-part, franchise-defining film is an AI entity.

I’m not kidding. They named their villain The Entity. It even has the weird personified look that CGI artists too to add humanity to these abstract concepts.

It feels like we’re going down a well-treaded road.

AI in movies is nothing new. HAL 9000 refused to open the pod bay doors. Ash helps the alien survive. And Ultron tries to destroy the world.

But that all felt like a far-off, sci-fi future.

General audiences related to more impending perils. Rocky fights Russia. Indiana Jones beats the Nazis. And Iron Man destroys terrorists.

Yet, the new Mission Impossible feels different. Tom Cruise trying to stop an all-seeing AI from taking over the world feels a bit closer to Rocky socking Ivan Drago than Hulk beating up on Ultron.

Remember, ChatGPT was not a thing when the creators wrote this story.

Now, AI is the mascot for doom and gloom in modern Hollywood. An avalanche of new films with that theme is coming down the pipeline. Their cheap thrills and paper-thin plots will exhaust you, so get ready for that.

Our advice is not to take it personally. You know there’s a strong possibility that Artificial Intelligence leads us towards a better, brighter future.

But that doesn’t sell tickets.

So buy in or don’t, but remember that Mission Impossible is the early sign of cinema’s future. There’s a lot more where this came from.

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GOOGLE GETS WRAPPED IN THE LAWSUIT PARTY

Clarkson Law Firm has a vendetta.

First, they sued OpenAI for copyright and privacy infringements. Now, they’re hitting Google, Alphabet, and DeepMind with a similar lawsuit. It’s a concerning pattern.

Google claims it did nothing wrong.

Most defendants refused to comment on the suit, but Google appears ready to fight this suit. They claim that their data collection policy is public knowledge and new disclosures are not an admission of guilt.

Everything they trained Bard on is public data. Period.

You and I might read that and doubt it, but history is on Google’s side. They don’t conceal their data collection efforts in hidden files locked away in some vaults. They’ve told us about these efforts from Jump Street.

So what is Clarkson Law Firm doing?

It’s not clear. On their socials, they say that they believe AI is dangerous and want to stop its spread. Suing these massive tech companies is an attempt to slow them down and handicap their efforts.

However, you could also argue that this is one colossal marketing effort. It’s not a massive law firm; this is free press for them.

So why not sue OpenAI and Google? If they win, they help slow down AI; if they lose, they make headlines regardless.

I don’t imagine they’ll win, so this whole sham feels like a moral stance from a heavily involved group of lawyers.

That’s why Google didn’t flinch when the news came out.

Quick Nuggets

📌 Kevin Roose embedded himself in Anthropic’s office as they geared up for the Claude 2 launch

📷 She says she took the photo on her phone, but the judges think it’s AI

🎨 DALL-E will train on Shutterstock for another six years

🦾 A writer for The New Yorker tries to get AI to replace him

🤯 1 Billion Images: Adobe Firefly is going global after they hit that huge landmark

📢 AI will market for you for free using these tips and tricks

✨ Kakao announces Karlo 2.0 as a way to step up their AI image generator game

😬 A CEO replaces 90% of his support staff with an AI chatbot

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