Elon Musk gets his AI ideas from whatever sci-fi movie he saw last
AI is about ideas. They don’t even have to be your ideas! Blade Runner 2049, a 2017 film about an apocalyptic future, features fully autonomous AI-driven vehicles. The cars both fly through the air…
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I love Blade Runner, but I don’t know if we want that future. I believe we want that duster he’s wearing, but not the, uh, not the bleak apocalypse.
there’s nothing more painful than when capitalists think they understand cyberpunk
"Wow, this film is bleak, we sure don't want that," said the wealthiest man in the world while spending tens of millions of dollars campaigning for an authoritarian just to enrich himself further via regulatory capture.
and the sequel, 2 Blade 2 Run
The Blade and the Runner: Tokyo Drift is my favorite
…ok I’m fucking saving that for an RPG campaign I haven’t written yet
Run Blade, the prequel
Cyberpunk is when cool coat*
*said coat is a trench coat, not a duster
…huh, you’re right (for the movie — the shitty AI image is a bad amalgamation of a trench coat and something like the shoulders of a duster). maybe the fucker was thinking of fallout or some shit.
and now I’ve convinced myself to go dig up my duster
This wasn’t from a place of knowledge. I made a social read. Musk is absolutely the type to call a trilby a fedora and feel smug about it, I extrapolated from that.
so I just fucking realized, this asshole wasn’t originally going to bring up the duster but he panicked. here’s the original, so much better-looking photo he ripped off:
and the spinner (a VTOL car) in that, viewed from the back, looks a lot like something he knocked off for the design of his shitty cybercab, including how the doors open and its general shape and color (though the latter’s due to the scene’s color grading if memory serves, but musk ain’t smart), though the cybercab doesn’t have any of the design elements that make the Blade Runner car interesting because of course it doesn’t, it was designed by a creatively bankrupt billionaire from someone else’s work
so that spinner’s missing in Musk’s generative AI ripoff of that image, because the model couldn’t make a spinner-like car that didn’t look fucked up. and that’s why the AI image has “NOT THIS” hastily applied in one corner and he had to change his speech from “I believe we want that car” (followed by revealing supposedly “that car”) to “I believe we want that duster”
unbelievably lazy, but not unexpected
Image: musk in trench coat
