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What is Sora's deepfake slop for, exactly? A little bit from me in the NYT on this awful, ghoulish invention which ultimately seems to have one purpose: to demolish the wall between the real and the unreal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | What Is Sora Slop For, Exactly?

Bobbie

@bobbie.net

19 Oct 2025

There's a little bit of background over here, featuring nods to @karenhao.bsky.social, @adambecker.bsky.social, @anildash.com and @theoatmeal.bsky.social : bobbie.net/2025/10/19/i...

bobbie.netIn the NYT: AI crosses the deepfake rubiconI have an opinion piece in the New York Times today about my extreme distaste for Sora, the new social video app from OpenAI that was built to create and share fake videos. “At a time when we…

Bobbie

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FWIW proceeds from this are going to the International Rescue Committee and its efforts to relieve the effects of genocide on the people of Gaza. I've sharply disagreed with the Times many times over the years, including (but not limited to) what's happening there. This was my imperfect solution.

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

19 Oct 2025

Love the way you’ve considered how to use the platform. And it’s interesting, I’ve been referencing Beer and cybernetics a lot lately in my talks and writing too. www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...

anildash.comSystems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Bobbie

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19 Oct 2025

I haven't gone deeply into cybernetics, but Beer is definitely a thinker who comes up a lot more now than he did when I started out. I've always appreciated what is essentially his inversion of "the ends justify the means." The *actual* ends are the things you have to justify!