Kris Lefcoe

Writer Director of films and TV. Musician playing shows around NYC. Professor at MFA Film and TV SUNY. DGA, UFT. IG @TheKrisLefcoe.

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

For $100 I will never send you updates on my project. For $1000 you'll never hear from me again. #Kickstarter

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@FilmUpdates Hell yes we don’t need the ai’s

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@Criterion @criterionchannl My favorite film of the year

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

❤️

[Nico Baumbach @NicoBaumbach]

catherine o'hara posing for a snapshot i took on streets of park slope when i was 10 years old

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

. @jonstewart and I agree:

AI must work for everybody, not just a handful of billionaires.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

two articles published on the same day. are you radicalized yet

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@sama I request a feature where you stop wasting all of our energy, resources, drinking water and intellectual property on some dumb shit we don’t need that will potentially exterminate us. *very requested feature*

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@sama You are a greedy immoral piece of shit. Wasting all of our resources, energy, water and labor to fuel your stupid useless robot fantasy. Fuck you.

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@JessieKx3 Inflation is global you twat

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

[musicology @musicology_mag]

New York filmmaker and musician @KrisLefcoe joins us on ‘Lost Conversations’ to discuss her very personal new track and incredible stop-motion music video clip. https://t.co/Ui9eLV97Rd

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@gerardoddavila @em_golden @runwayml @Tribeca @gabemichael_ai @julienvallee @c_valenzuelab @JunieLauX @valleeduhamel My film was shot in authentic stop motion frame by frame over five weeks. I used a Beta version of DALL-E to outpaint a vintage postcard so that I could see slightly more of the room in the photo, printed it on paper, and shot it on an antiquated downshooter. AI is simply a tool.

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

https://t.co/6XeVVVVmNr

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@em_golden @Tribeca @gabemichael_ai @julienvallee @c_valenzuelab @JunieLauX @valleeduhamel Thanks for including me Emily! Great event. It was cool to see these films and meet these talented filmmakers! Thanks @Tribeca!

[Grotesqualizer @gtqlizer]

DISCOVER NEW SONG - https://t.co/9x4HQ98ARe
@KrisLefcoe - Dirt
#triphop #psychedelicrock #thestooges

[If It's Too Loud @IfItsTooLoudBLG]

Film director @KrisLefcoe releases a cover of a @Iggy_Stooges classic!
https://t.co/lwBwCaBJPE

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

Max Roach!

[American Masters @PBSAmerMasters]

Experience the groundbreaking sounds of bebop pioneer, virtuoso percussionist and bandleader Max Roach. "American Masters – Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes" premieres Friday, October 6 at 9/8c on PBS. #AmericanMastersPBS

[Kris Lefcoe @KrisLefcoe]

@Variety I have some notes on his drone strike victims and the empathy we would have for them

[The Intercept @theintercept]

A UAW official told The Intercept that the union’s account, which they paid for, was verified until Friday morning, when suddenly it wasn’t. https://t.co/s2oJYDCE9l

[Writers Guild of America West @WGAWest]

What we’re asking for is fair and reasonable, remember that. #WGAStrike