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AI News that caught my eye over the last 7 days, plus a roundup of what was published in the Newsletters this week…
📰 IN THE NEWS
YouTubers panic as AI historians rewrite the past with fewer citations, more explosions.
History creators on YouTube are facing extinction as AI-generated content floods the platform with videos like “What Alexander the Great and Napoleon Would Text Each Other” and “10 Roman Emperors Ranked by Swag.”
Real historians who spent decades studying ancient civilizations now compete with algorithms that can produce “The Complete History of Everything” in 4 minutes with perfect hair and clickbait thumbnails.
Scholarly research and nuance are rapidly giving way to flashy AI-generated content optimized for engagement rather than accuracy.
Studio Ghibli fand riot as AI creates “Totoro 2: Tokyo Drift”
The internet has discovered it can generate imitation Studio Ghibli art using ChatGPT, causing Hayao Miyazaki to emerge from his 27th retirement to express his disgust.
The 84-year-old animation legend, who once described AI as “an insult to life itself,” was reportedly unimpressed with the flood of synthetic Ghibli-style images.
Meanwhile, AI-generated content featuring Spirited Away characters promoting cryptocurrency and No-Face selling diet pills has gone viral on social media platforms, prompting true fans to organize protests consisting mainly of meaningful silence and disapproving glances.
“Inzio” game introduces life simulator where AI characters hate their jobs too
Meanwhile, Krafton’s new Sims competitor “inZOI” features AI characters with such advanced emotional intelligence that they experience existential crises in real-time.
Early beta testers report digital humans quitting their virtual jobs to “find themselves,” refusing to wake up without coffee, and spending hours staring at in-game walls contemplating the meaning of simulated existence.
The game proudly advertises that AI isn’t just a feature but the entire point, with…
