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Famous for 15 Seconds in AI: A $975M Deal Showed Me I Was Playing the Wrong Game

A TikToker's billion-dollar AI clone deal grabbed headlines, then crashed. It also showed me I'd been following someone else's map instead of building in the wilderness where my work actually lives.
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11:22
When Everything You Create Starts Sounding Like ChatGPT (And How to Fix It)
You thought AI would save time. Instead, you're editing endless drafts and everything sounds generic. The problem isn't the AI: it's how you're using…
 • Declan Dunn
11:38
The Only AI With a Patent: Why Stephen Thaler's DABUS Got Erased from AI History
What if creativity isn't about predicting patterns—it's about breaking them? One AI pioneer build machines that invent, and create today. His questions…
 • Declan Dunn
9:34
Getty Loses AI Copyright Case: What the UK Ruling Means for You - Creator or Not
Getty Images—the most litigious photo company on Earth—just lost their AI copyright case. If they can't protect their $3B brand with armies of lawyers…
 • Declan Dunn
10:34
Dotcom Deja Vu: 3 Signals the AI Bubble is Popping (one might be your electric bill)
The money games are back Content slop generated endlessly. Electric grid built on AI hope. I saw Dotcom in 1999. Similar signals are here. And your…
 • Declan Dunn
23:23
Creative Machines and Human Creativity: Building AI that Makes Us More Creative Instead of Replacing Us
Maya Ackerman's piano is her creative partner, from Belarus to Santa Clara. In Creative Machines, she shows how AI can be too—if fear doesn't stop us…
 • Declan Dunn
16:34
Breaking the $4/Min Barrier: How AI Pays $120 for Raw Video and $30 for another?
Lionsgate's entire catalog wasn't enough to train AI. Someone's buying 50,000 hours of dog videos. Your unused footage might be worth $1-4/min—if you…
 • Declan Dunn
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