Ghost in the Machine: documentary film, 2026

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

Looks like you cannot assert a copyright privilege over "art" that wasn't made by a human being. So go rip off those Coke commercials and maybe even the LLM versions of Disney characters all you want!!!

www.theverge.com/policy/88767...

Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

I am unsure how technically accurate it is, but from a gut instinct a fair way to describe LLMs is that it’s a 3D printer for thoughts, but is not the same thing as something that does your thinking for you.

“A person made this” is impressive and sometimes awe inspiring, “a person got a machine to make this” can be clever but is rarely, like, amazing

Hi! Not yet but we will soon! We're releasing a teaser next week with a trailer to follow. And don't worry-- we will be doing screenings through the year so no rush to convience everyone this week.

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

I like how they're giving mandatory rest breaks and self nourishment time to a fucking chatbot but expecting their new hires to put in 80 hour weeks and sleep at their desks

@rudygasson.bsky.social Please email us and we’d love to connect you with a way to screen! 🤘

Ghost in the Machine Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

Starting to hear buzz about Valerie Veatch's @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social and want to where you can see it? They've got a form on their website to bring Ghost in the Machine to your university, club, festival, institution, or any other place with a screen + humans, virtual or IRL.

notaidoc.com

I think that's on our list to reach out to but if not I will add!

Bring GHOST to you! Request a screening, sale, or other event from the GHOST IN THE MACHINE team

Want to bring GHOST to your university, club, film festival, or any other place with a screen + humans? We're getting ready to make that possible! You can now request a screening through our handy form here:

Hey, we will be here handing out our #NotAI buttons! Come meet and march with us in London next weekend.

AI is like if the only opinions you were allowed to have about aerospace are “airplanes aren’t real” and “we should give a klansman handing out cardboard wings and telling people to jump off buildings a trillion dollars.”

There's a Grim New Expression: "AI;DR" The slang is a sign of how overrun the internet is with AI slop — and how the real humans using it are fed up.

"Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?"

CREATIVE INNOVATION, ETHICS AND TRUTH IN THE AGE OF AI | AIDC

Speakers will share their unique perspectives on how documentary makers can harness AI creatively while safeguarding truth and trust. (You can guess where we land on this one?)

More info here:

Anyone going to the Australian Int'l Doc Conference? If so, check out our session on March 3 at 10:15!

"Creative Innovation, Ethics, and Truth in the Age of AI" will feature our director @valerieveatch.bsky.social, Angie Abdilla, Clayton Jacobson, moderated by Lexi Landsman (BBC Studios ANZ).

Great curated list of critical AI books from Prof. Dagmar Monett #AcademicSky monettdiaz.com/books-critic...

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Staring at the stack of IT emails promising me Claude and Gemini will make my work easier, on the one hand, and the growing number of stories about researchers churning out dozens of papers with NotebookLM and ChatGPT Scholar, on the other.

Great.

Professional-Ebb8770's comment on "Sundance Film Festival / Ghost in the Machine : Exclusive Interview with Director Valerie Veatch" Explore this conversation and more from the Sundance community

By popular demand..we're on Reddit now! Come say hi or ask us a question if you feel moved.

Activists who challenged Industry Inevitability Myths — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements New! Technology Audit Curriculum: This activity provides a structured way to surface the ethical dimensions of technology tools. Drawing on four analytic ap...

Today, learn from activists who have resisted data centers and other exploitative projects.

Sue Kasun and Erin Anderson interview Omar Lázaro García and Aurora Gómez.

You can also read their conversation in Spanish!

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/activis...

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We are there !!

dair_institute - Twitch Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

Big news: @alexhanna.bsky.social and I are over the moon to welcome @naomiaklein.bsky.social to Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 to discuss “AI” and the military industrial complex. Join us for the livestream:

Monday, Feb 9, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute

“I'm not sure at all that this is any great technical project. This is really a project of shepherding people, controlling people, bullying… It’s a project that, throughout, has been propelled by threats and the threat of exclusion.” - Usha Ramanathan on Aadhaar, digital public infrastructure and AI

There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.

(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Sundance 2026: The 10 Best Movies We Saw At The Festival, Ranked - SlashFilm From a musical-themed comedy to a documentary about the disappearance of glaciers, here are our favorite films from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

"Hi kids, do you like artificial intelligence? You might change your mind after seeing director @valerieveatch.bsky.social's searing takedown of the rising technological fad that has suddenly invaded our everyday lives."

thanks, @slashfilm.bsky.social!

@naomiaklein.bsky.social: “The only governing principle of it is compute — more and more and more and more. It's a really kind of brute force way of seeing the world, and to have so many titans fighting for this one prize at the same time is the most unimaginably wasteful use of resources.”