Sora is going viral, suggesting there is a big opportunity in unlocking creativity. If that’s true, that’s good for humanity — and bad for Meta.
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AI's aesthetics of failure
On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop
Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation error.
Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
“You’re expected to give pretty much your whole self to Meta AI.”
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
There's a problem for AI agents like Meta's Muse: ordinary people don't seem very interested in what they're offering.
Manus Joins Meta for Next Era of Innovation
Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.
A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity
AI can already beat humans in many measures of creativity. Let's use that to our advantage.
AI IS CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
'Genshin Impact' Creator Dives Into AI for Growth Beyond Games
HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots
Itai Yanai on Twitter / X
Unpopular opinion: Going straight to AI limits your creatively, because it short-circuits the iterative process you need to develop new ideas. pic.twitter.com/O2iPs0bfh0— Itai Yanai (@ItaiYanai) June 20, 2026
Video: In a talk at the Neuro-Symbolic AI summer school, I argued that research fields progress in explore/exploit cycles, and that while the AI community is very good at the exploit phases, it is… | Arvind Narayanan
Video: In a talk at the Neuro-Symbolic AI summer school, I argued that research fields progress in explore/exploit cycles, and that while the AI community is very good at the exploit phases, it is not so good at the explore phases and tends to get stuck in local minima. Progress toward AGI (though I don't use that term) will be helped if we have strong sub-communities that have different progress criteria from mainstream AI/ML and are big and powerful enough to support scholars' career advancement. Video on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eUCGUjRx (link goes to timestamp starting at 51:10) The above is Part 1 of the talk; Part 2 is based on this essay with Sayash Kapoor and is about the application of AI to other scientific disciplines. https://lnkd.in/eUHy7aYi Thanks to the Centaur AI Institute for inviting me and to the participants for a great discussion.
Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.
