'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans'

The new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Pluribus, was emphatically made by humans, not AI, reports TechCrunch:

If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show 'Pluribus,' you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: 'This show was made by humans.' That terse message — placed right below a note that 'animal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety' — could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI.

In fact, yesterday the former X-Files writer told Variety 'I hate AI. AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine....'

He goes on, about how AI-generated content is 'like a cow chewing its cud — an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense,' and how the U.S. will fail to regulate the technology because of an arms race with China. He works himself up until he's laughing again, proclaiming: 'Thank you, Silicon Valley! Yet again, you've fucked up the world.'

He also says 'there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit,' according to the article. 'It's basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world's first trillionaires. I think they're selling a bag of vapor.'

And earlier this week he told Polygon that he hasn't used ChatGPT 'because, as of yet, no one has held a shotgun to my head and made me do it.' (Adding 'I will never use it.')

Time magazine called Thursday's two-episode premiere 'bonkers.' Though ironically, that premiere hit its own dystopian glitch. 'After months of buildup and an omnipresent advertising campaign, Apple's much-anticipated new show Pluribus made its debut...' reports Macworld. 'And the service promptly suffered a major outage across the U.S. and Canada.'

As reported by Bloomberg and others, users started to report that the service had crashed at around 10:30 p.m. ET, shortly after Apple made the first two episodes of the show available to stream. There were almost 13,000 reports on Downdetector before Apple acknowledged the problem on its System Status page. Reports say the outage was brief, lasting less than an hour...

[T]here remains a Resolved Outage note on Apple TV (simply saying 'Some users were affected; users experienced a problem with Apple TV' between 10:29 and 11.38 p.m.), as well as on Apple Music and Apple Arcade, which also went down at the same time. Social media reports indicated that the outage was widespread.

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