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.
Christopher Nolan explaining his love for David Lynch and how he drew inspiration from him to write Memento:
“One of the films I saw as I was writing it was David Lynch’s Lost Highway. I’m a Lynch fan, but I was left like, What the hell was that? It felt too strange, too long; I almost didn’t finish watching it. And then, about a week later, I remembered the film as if I were remembering one of my own dreams. I realized that Lynch had created the shape of a film that would project a shadow in my memory, assuming the shape of a dream. It’s like a hypercube—the shadow of a four-dimensional object in our three-dimensional world. It’s back to Eisenstein’s shot A plus shot B gives you thought C. That’s the ultimate aspiration of what you want to try and do with the form of a movie. You want to try and create something that isn’t just film running through the projector. I think there are other films like this, Tarkovsky’s Mirror, for example, and Malick’s Tree of Life. And that’s what Memento tried to do in its own way and succeeded in doing, judging by people’s response. The thing I was proudest of is that your experience of the film was not just the film running through the projector. It bled off in all these different ways. It created a three-dimensional narrative.”
The Irishman is often a film I use as a litmus test for a person’s movie taste: if you think this film is anything but a total masterpiece, I don’t trust your judgment when my comes to anything cinema related. Calling The Irishman a masterpiece is a no-brainer. #ScorseseSundays
The Irishman moved into my Letterboxd 4 this week. Don’t ask me how, don’t ask me why. The universe just spoke to me. Probably because Pesci, Pacino, De Niro, & Marty somehow pull this masterpiece off in their 70s. Never, ever take this film for granted, people. It’s a miracle.
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One of the reasons I love Twin Peaks so much is because of how emotional it makes me for numerous different reasons. So, after my rewatch, I've decided to make a list of every Twin Peaks moment that has ever made me cry. (SPOILER THREAD)
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