Human vs AI creativity? The Wisdom of Writers Shuts Me Up

The writers' room has a new rule: AI is contraband. One writer chose quiet instead of sides. Then hits send anyway. Same as always. What are you…

Feb 27 • Declan Dunn

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Will I Ever Get to Meet an AI Influencer? An AI Grandmother Has Two Million Followers. She Doesn't Exist.

Will AI influencers replace real ones? Wrong question — what if becoming the product was always the hard way. Ask the people watching and listening…

Feb 20 • Declan Dunn

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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…

Feb 6 • Declan Dunn

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January 2026

AI Swallows Our Wildness: Why It Can't Live on Echoes Alone

We're taming creativity into extinction. AI feeds on wild human expression, then replaces it with optimized echoes. Without 'before,' there's no AI…

Jan 30 • Declan Dunn

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Risking Kindness: Why AI chatbots reflect our truths back to us on demand (probably).

We rush to AI not because it's genius, but because it never disagrees. What happens when we seek support and comfort inside the echo chambers we carry…

Jan 23 • Declan Dunn

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We're All Naruto: The Monkey Got 25%, While AI Creators Get Nothing. Why?

A macaque takes a perfect selfie, gets 25%. You spend hours training AI. The law says both of you own nothing. The choice? Stay quiet. Don't admit AI…

Jan 9 • Declan Dunn

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December 2025

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…

Dec 26, 2025 • Declan Dunn

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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…

Dec 5, 2025 • Declan Dunn

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November 2025

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…

Nov 21, 2025 • Declan Dunn

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October 2025

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…

Oct 31, 2025 • Declan Dunn

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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…

Oct 10, 2025 • Declan Dunn

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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…

Oct 3, 2025 • Declan Dunn

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