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the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Well, I'd like to begin with a product review. I said to myself, I'll bet I could get a better camera than the one that's built into my laptop, my Macintosh. So I used Grok and I used ChatGPT and I asked people for recommendations for a good webcam, and people said the best one would be this Logitech Brio, I don't know, kind of thing, whatever is the top of…

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e what you're getting. You deserve it. No, that has to be broken and publicly humiliated. So I did that for you.

So we're back to our FaceTime camera, which is really good by the way. Very good camera.

Well, I saw a piece of work by Jay Plemmons today, or yesterday, on X, who took my book *God's Debris* and used AI to animate it. He animated it to create an AI movie, and just the first scene, you know. And that's the problem with making movies: you can make a good 15-second scene, but apparently that's as far as you can go. Even if you make lots of them, they don't fit together or something.

But just to see what the future holds. Wow. It's really amazing. It's in my X feed or you can go to Jay's feed. He's at Jay Plemmons, P-L-E-M-M-O-N-S. He'd be a good follow if you want to see some good video clips. And it features the character in the book who is called the Avatar. So that's the main character. It's a fictional account, and Jay put me in as the Avatar.

Now the funny thing about that is that the Avatar character is described as so old he looks like he's just ready to die any moment. And I thought, oh well, that's pretty good casting. Pretty good.

All right. But I would ask you, if you're tempted to take that book and turn it into a full-length movie, that would be a big copyright problem. Doing 15 seconds of it to demonstrate how it works is excellent, you know, fully approved. That would be, in my mind, fair use. That's fair use. But if you thought, hey, I think I'll make a

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whole movie out of this, no, that would not be fair use. Speaking of that, OpenAI has apparently told Hollywood studios that instead of the current model, well I guess they want to reverse the model of copyright. So they will use your copyright unless you specifically ask them not to. So you would have to explicitly opt out. Otherwise you could use OpenAI to make your own Dilbert comics or anythi…

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