Wil Rees

Film concept artist & author of William and the Thirteenth Key Available on Kindle/paperback @Amazon.com. Book purchase link:

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

If anyone is in the mood to read something imaginative and fun while we are all locked inside for a while waiting for this plague to end: https://t.co/ghYHvVisWF

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

@Erickschultz11 @realalexlains Society depends on all of us to function it is a symbiotic relationship. Without us buying their products or paying taxes government and corporations will eventually fail. It’s not a sane societally beneficial business model looking forwards.

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

@Erickschultz11 @realalexlains What the big tech companies really did training their AI from illegal servers feels like the biggest human creative arts heist in history. Which they want to sell back to us as we all become unemployed.

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

@Erickschultz11 @realalexlains However if AI is used responsibly as a tool to enhance us as a species in areas of science, and health research etc. the future could be bright. My concern is the environmental, social side effects and cost of this technology.

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

@Erickschultz11 @realalexlains People that embrace AI are only delaying being replaced themselves as AI is trained on what they themselves are doing.

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

@Erickschultz11 @realalexlains It’s a very socially complicated issue. So if 80% of the population is eventually laid off because of AI and if some sort of universal income is approved by the government what kind of life will humanity have. We as a species need purpose for existence.

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[39daph @39daph]

I never posted this here but I made this back when I finished my 30 day drawing challenge in jan. I wanted to share the similar message I had for artists reverberated by the pope himself 💕

[Wil Rees @Wandthe13thKey]

@Erickschultz11 @realalexlains And what you don’t realize is when you are forced to use AI at work you are still training it to replace you. And as soon as you have they will replace you in the name of ‘efficiency’. This is an argument I’ve heard time and time again, but it just delays the inevitable lay offs.

[Alexandra Lains @realalexlains]

AI is destructive and I’m tired of it being shoved into every aspect of our lives.

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

The people who know the least, do the least, and are nowhere near organizing, are the first to tell everyone to stop fighting.

No Demi, we don’t have to accept the exploitative, thieving, brain damaging, environmentally harmful and polluting tech that tech imposed on us.

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Karen Hao spent 250 interviews inside Sam Altman's OpenAI.

Her verdict: we're being gaslit.

Why no one said this out loud before is structural. The AI industry bankrolls most of the researchers who would normally critique it.

→ Hao interviewed 250+ people for Empire of AI, including 90+ current and former OpenAI employees.

→ "The AI industry employs and bankrolls most of the AI researchers in the world," she told The Diary Of A CEO. "They set the agenda simply by funneling money to their priorities."

→ In Kenya, she met Mophat Okinyi. Paid a couple of dollars an hour to review 15,000 pieces of violent and sexual content a month to train ChatGPT's safety filter.

→ OpenAI declined to cooperate with the book. Sam Altman publicly dismissed it on X.

→ It still won the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction.

Critique gets defined out of the job description before it's ever published. The checks come from the thing being critiqued.

I've read every major AI exposé of the last decade. This is the first one sourced from inside the building.

You can't audit a system by asking the people it pays. You audit it by asking who got paid the least to build it.

Who, in your field, can still afford to tell the truth about the thing that funds them?

Hao's method is the mental model most reporters skip. Always ask who's paid to keep the story alive, and who's paid to bury it.

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— Karen Hao, The Diary Of A CEO | Data: 250+ interviews, Empire of AI (Penguin Random House)

[Alexandra Lains @realalexlains]

Artificial intelligence has taken over every aspect of creating bodies of work in music, literature, images, etc. I don’t want to see it anymore and I don’t want to fuel it by “learning more about it.”

I see the use of AI as putting your brain in a jar and watching it rot away.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

OpenAI, long indifferent to intellectual property, now howls that China has swiped their code.

For years, they quietly trained their models on others’ work—books, blogs, forums, news—without consent, then preached that individual rights must yield to their grander vision.

When confronted over the theft, Sam Altman has said that individual rights need to give way to the greater good.

That they’re building God.

That the social contract is changing and people need to accept that.

But now that China’s doing unto them what they’ve done to others, OpenAI is shocked and outraged.

And no one cares. In fact, we’re gleeful.

Welcome to the Find Out phase.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

While the @UKLabour government considers upending the law to allow AI companies to train on people’s creative work without a license, our statement opposing unlicensed training just hit 38,000 signatures.

Still open ➡️ https://t.co/3NtIobm8iy

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

Wait so DeepSeek took from Open Ai without credit, consent or compensation???? W i l d!

Now where have I heard this problem before 🤔 🤔🤔😒

https://t.co/5jbQbm1SBd

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

Make no mistake, GenAi companies will try and dismantle all protections that creatives have over their work in the US too. They KNOW they cant win lawsuits because they broke the law. But they can try and change the laws.

Folks, prepare yourselves to fight this tooth and nail.

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

@peterkyle @10DowningStreet @bbclaurak This is so disgusting. GenAi only functions off the stolen works of creatives. A fight that is being waged in the courts everywhere. And all of you said with your whole chest “ WE LOVE STEALING FROM OUR CREATIVES”

Pathetic lot all of you.

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

I want to talk to you about AI and our climate.

Increased AI use could lead to:

- doubling data center electricity demand by 2026
- increased carbon emissions
- water supply shortages
- electronic waste

We are already facing a climate crisis. We can't let AI make it worse.

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

@SenMarkey 1000%

Also, GenAi is built off the works of artists, taken by tech companies without our consent, credit nor compensation, and worse off, it competes in our own job markets! GenAi also threatens the jobs of so sectors.

It’s terrible and unethical tech for climate AND society!

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

Concerning to hear major companies utilizing unethical GenAi models which are all currently under litigation due to potential copyright infringement amongst other violations.

May companies who replace talented artists for unethical models face consequences for their recklessness