AI Is Ruining the Internet (And It's Big Tech's Fault)

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Timestamps:
0:00 I have twelve fingers and I must scream
1:13 Pillar of Garbage AI situation is crazy
5:48 AI and the stock industry
9:15 Storyblocks redemption arc?
14:19 Behind the curtain
21:26 Chess under the table
28:17 Conclusion

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Sources quoted:
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, Chatto & Windus, 1993, p9-10.
Ed Zitron, 'The Rot-Com Bubble', Better Offline, CoolZoneMedia
Ed Zitron, 'The Rot-Com Bust', Better Offline, CoolZoneMedia
Michael Parenti, US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR, 1986: https://youtu.be/xP8CzlFhc14?si=s-tX6iVnq07s1VZ2
Wall Street Journal: OpenAI's Sora Made Me Crazy AI Videos, https://youtu.be/mAUpxN-EIgU?si=IvLLPqXkf1pPyHRr

Sources shown onscreen & misc. clips used are in this document (description character limit reached!) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cEZlc5KK2vL7OKsY4Ay9nnz3lwPDk-hNpqD_gnxtuA/edit?usp=sharing

YT videos mentioned:
Blooms on channel automation: https://youtu.be/dXE3lmavsH4?si=6Ls_Q3IY0I0FB-lY
hoots on AI slop: https://youtu.be/UEMT0w835RE?si=HseqimM99yGxVUOc

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YT videos used:
System Shock 2 gamplay from https://youtu.be/keGaGYvR4kE?si=UkWrtOwrwVAtKmkW
I have no mouth... gameplay from https://youtu.be/4u6N49L8MU4?si=20yE70TrWEKALQjk
Basketball gorilla video: https://youtu.be/IGQmdoK_ZfY?si=yE43Gyd_TVL8NDzk
AI spaghetti: https://youtu.be/XQr4Xklqzw8?si=imBbNa-I1KdWcpKO
AI cat short https://youtube.com/shorts/7i2lXF2F2WI?si=xT79e4HccJISvDHG
Mario footage from https://youtu.be/JOFBvrtS998?si=Q74yfqxZcknXuoHC
Facebook/meta's metaverse PR videos: https://youtu.be/SAL2JZxpoGY?si=H2Jhhb0bLDJh7N45 and https://youtu.be/uVEALvpoiMQ?si=JzzolKA1TWpRger3
Motherload gampeplay from https://youtu.be/4UWrg9YpHvA?si=DsyVWiLwLsheSrjF
AI history short https://youtube.com/shorts/C3n8To36zeQ?si=Ov1Dujfr6tFsHgDG

Thumbnail by the amazing @hotcyder - and thanks to @TSDTalks22, @PentexProductions, @every_spider-man_ever, @edgierthanthou, and @JoseBird for their guest voice lines!