Is Elon Musk A Replicant? (lawandchaospod.com)

[eppur_se_muova]

Musk Sued For Crappy AI Plagiarism At Conference Celebrating His Brilliant Innovations

Andrew Torrez and Liz Dye
Oct 28, 2024

On the afternoon of October 10, 2024, just hours before an event to hype its “fully autonomous cybercab,” Tesla realized it had a problem. The company had acquired what it believed to be the rights to use a still image from the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 from Warner Bros. Discovery Inc (WBDI) in its promotion. It had rented out Warner Bros.’ studio lot in Burbank, California and invited various luminaries to witness the beautiful future — always right around the corner — of self-driving cars. But at 2 pm, WBDI realized that it did not own the rights to the image, and the actual owner, Alcon Entertainment, refused to associate itself with Musk and his companies.

And so, according to a complaint filed last week, Musk’s minions used AI to generate a copycat image and proceeded as planned. Because if you can’t beat ‘em, get your plagiarism bot to steal ‘em, right?

Mistakes Were Made

In 1982, Warner Bros. released the original Blade Runner movie, adapted from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electronic {sic!} Sheep? by science fiction author Philip K. Dick. It was an instant classic, launching a franchise exploring the fraught line separating humans from machines. The iconic shot at issue from the sequel featured actor Ryan Gosling, portraying a replicant android sent to hunt down a child born to a replicant mother, something which would offend both law and the natural order in the Blade Runner cinematic universe. He’s pictured in a duster jacket, next to his autonomous flying car, known as a “spinner,” outside a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, rendered uninhabitable by a nuclear bomb. The still was featured in publicity for the movie and is instantly recognizable to sci-fi fans.
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The idea of self-driving cars has been a staple of science fiction for at least seventy years, which is perhaps why the science fiction filmmaker behind the movie adaptation of I, Robot tweeted out this joke, rather than actually suing Musk for copying his designs.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/
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more, mostly long discussions of copyright law, and how Mush feels he's free to bend the law to suit his needs AND how his own 'futurist' approach to innovation is reminiscent of fictional dystopias more than utopias: https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/is-elon-musk-a-replicant

Adds more fuel to the speculation on so many people's minds: Just what is wrong with this guy, anyway ? And how long can the list get ?


(SF {as opposed to "Sci-Fi"} fans will know it's *electric*, not *electronic*, sheep.)

[DBoon]

1. someone should ask him this...

While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping. Why?

[wcmagumba]

2. He is very obviously a skinjob...

Only he hasn't seen the things Roy Batty has. "Like tears in rain"

[C_U_L8R]

3. No, just repugnant.