Larry J. Cohen
@larryjcohen.com
Writer of TV, Film and Comics | WGAE
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happy Super Bowl Sunday! for all you commercials sickos, I make the case that this game's ad blitz will be to A.I. what 2022's was to crypto and 2000's was to the dot-com boom—with all attendant implications for our broader economy and the celebrity-promotion complex: slate.com/technology/2...
The Biggest Star of the Super Bowl Isn’t an Athlete—or Bad Bunny
We’ve seen this game before, and it doesn’t end well for anyone.
slate.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
happy Super Bowl Sunday! for all you commercials sickos, I make the case that this game's ad blitz will be to A.I. what 2022's was to crypto and 2000's was to the dot-com boom—with all attendant implications for our broader economy and the celebrity-promotion complex: slate.com/technology/2...
We deserves to live in a world that protects human labor and our news from synthetic slop. Spread the word.
Introducing The NY FAIR News Act, legislation that establishes clear protections for both journalists, media professionals and the broader public to ensure that the integrity of the news and its workforce are safeguarded against artificial intelligence.
Read more: www.wgaeast.org/fahy-rozic-i...
Read more: www.wgaeast.org/fahy-rozic-i...
![gos: New York State Senate, New York State Union Strong AFL-CIO, New York State Assembly, Writers Guild of America East, SAG-AFTRA, Directors Guild of America, The NewsGuild of New York Local 31003, CWA]
THE NY FAIR NEWS ACT
LEGISLATION TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS AND THE PUBLIC FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JEOPARDIZING NEWS REPORTING
S.8451/A.8962-A
Senator Patricia Fahy (D—Albany) and
Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D—NYC)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dxphnrtri3v6a2lyl2khufyv/bafkreigfiovkor5vynqu2cdiucrbimkp5egshmzjozoduwmpzwunksli3y@jpeg)
![“Perhaps one of the industries at most risk from the use of artificial intelligence is journalism and as a result, the public's trust and confidence in accurate news reporting. More than 76% of Americans are concerned about AI stealing or reproducing journalism and local news stories, as AI continues to reshape our daily lives and careers across industries. To protect the public's trust in reporting and the news they read everyday and the journalists who do the work, I'm proud to introduce the NY FAIR News Act with Assemblymember Rozic, and I look forward to working with my colleagues in the State Senate to enact common sense guidelines that protect New Yorkers from the unintended consequences of AI."
SENATOR PATRICIA FAHY
(D—ALBANY)
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![“At the center of the news industry, New York has a strong interest in preserving journalism and protecting the workers who produce it The NY FAIR News Act promotes journalistic integrity and ensures total AI-disclosure to journalists, workers, and the public alike."
ASSEMBLYWOMAN NILY ROZIC
(D—NYC)
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![“Artificial Intelligence presents a clear and demonstrable threat to the integrity of the news. The NY FAIR News Act recognizes that AI may be used in newsrooms, but rather than let this nascent technology run wild, especially in a critical election year, the bill mandates cooperation between news media companies and the highly skilled human workers they employee to uphold journalistic standards and workplace protections."
TOM FONTANA, PRESIDENT OF
THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA EAST
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February 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
We deserves to live in a world that protects human labor and our news from synthetic slop. Spread the word.
Their instincts were right.
"We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."
Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal
Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.
trib.al
February 1, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Their instincts were right.
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Today WGAE members joined @nynurses.bsky.social on strike at the Mount Sinai picket line! Day 3 of the #NYCNurseStrike and 15,000 nurses are still fighting for respect and fair compensation. #PatientsOverProfits ✊
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Today WGAE members joined @nynurses.bsky.social on strike at the Mount Sinai picket line! Day 3 of the #NYCNurseStrike and 15,000 nurses are still fighting for respect and fair compensation. #PatientsOverProfits ✊
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don't make me tap the sign
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
don't make me tap the sign
Always a pleasure getting to call Generative A.I. limited and mediocre compared to human creativity in the @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Always a pleasure getting to call Generative A.I. limited and mediocre compared to human creativity in the @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
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This morning, Disney announced a deal with OpenAI. Read more about the WGAW’s advocacy against the theft and exploitation of writers’ works by AI models: www.wga.org/contracts/kn...
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This morning, Disney announced a deal with OpenAI. Read more about the WGAW’s advocacy against the theft and exploitation of writers’ works by AI models: www.wga.org/contracts/kn...
I hope @propublica.org understands that not only are @propublicaguild.org G.A.I. demands fair and reasonable, but relying on G.A.I. for investigative journalism is just an inevitable disaster waiting to happen. ✊
It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I hope @propublica.org understands that not only are @propublicaguild.org G.A.I. demands fair and reasonable, but relying on G.A.I. for investigative journalism is just an inevitable disaster waiting to happen. ✊
THIS MAKES ME SO….
Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
THIS MAKES ME SO….
Honored to be part of the inaugural Dean Winters Short Film Festival open.substack.com/pub/tomfonta...
The Dean Winters Short Film Festival
Week #1
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Honored to be part of the inaugural Dean Winters Short Film Festival open.substack.com/pub/tomfonta...
This holiday season, consider streaming services that pay artists more fairly by @bcmerchant.bsky.social — www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This holiday season, consider streaming services that pay artists more fairly by @bcmerchant.bsky.social — www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
Until people leave these platforms profitting off viral grifts all together, it’s only going to keep getting worse.
X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Until people leave these platforms profitting off viral grifts all together, it’s only going to keep getting worse.
I’ll be talking all things Screenwriting, A.I. and Labor tomorrow at @caveatnyc.bsky.social.
www.caveat.nyc/events/on-th...
www.caveat.nyc/events/on-th...
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’ll be talking all things Screenwriting, A.I. and Labor tomorrow at @caveatnyc.bsky.social.
www.caveat.nyc/events/on-th...
www.caveat.nyc/events/on-th...
Things every writer should know about A.I. on the latest @wgaeast.bsky.social OnWriting podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Episode 131: WGAE AI Task Force Roundtable with Larry J. Cohen, Sarah Montana and A.M. Homes
Podcast Episode · OnWriting: A Podcast of the WGA East · 11/20/2025 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Things every writer should know about A.I. on the latest @wgaeast.bsky.social OnWriting podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of awful shit Corporate A.I. does every day… if there’s a federal ban on state A.I. laws, it would be a Twinkie… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of awful shit Corporate A.I. does every day… if there’s a federal ban on state A.I. laws, it would be a Twinkie… thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
No notes. youtu.be/Qtr81JWCl6c?...
AI Photos - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
No notes. youtu.be/Qtr81JWCl6c?...
Miyazaki: This is an insult to life itself. www.theverge.com/news/812545/...
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
www.theverge.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Miyazaki: This is an insult to life itself. www.theverge.com/news/812545/...
This 👏 technology 👏 is 👏 not 👏 reliable.
AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows reut.rs/4qkIfvx
AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC.
reut.rs
October 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This 👏 technology 👏 is 👏 not 👏 reliable.
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To answer a question in this @thr.com article:
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
To answer a question in this @thr.com article:
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
Yes, they could have, back in 2023 when the WGA and SAG came to them and said "you should work with us to force AI companies to delete stolen content from their training libraries."
They said no. There was actually a whole strike about it!
When all else fails…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.
🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
www.404media.co
October 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
When all else fails…
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Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Oct 14th - #Hackers of the world united to overload the Gibson, and prevent the Da Vinci virus from capsizing an oil fleet, designed to distract from "The Plague's" worm stealing $25m.
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
📽️📅 Hackers (1995)
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For what it’s worth:
Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.
Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.
The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...
October 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
For what it’s worth:
Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.
Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.
Go on. Tell me more. deadline.com/2025/10/mpa-...
MPA Chairman Says OpenAI Bears Responsibility For Preventing Sora 2 From Infringing On Copyright
The MPA issued a statement on the release of Sora 2.
deadline.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Go on. Tell me more. deadline.com/2025/10/mpa-...