The Artificial Intelligence Revolution

[Zertel]

Discussing the potential financial arrangements between the public and AI tech giants

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9 minutes, 51 seconds
Axios reported that America's wealthiest figures are developing their own prescriptions for AI fueled inequality, anxious to diffuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes. There are now 86 AI billionaires on Forbes annual ranking worth a collective $2.9 trillion. 86 people, $2.9 trillion, and a growing
suspicion among the other 330 million that the arrangement may not be working for everyone. The AI boom ...etc.

146,901 views Premiered Jun 8, 2026 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBillionaires

The AI billionaires are changing their tone. After years of promising disruption, automation, and unimaginable wealth, they are now warning about inequality, job loss, and the public backlash building around the technology they are still racing to deploy.

00:00 Introduction
01:28 The Billionaire Bullsh*t
04:17 The People's Backlash
09:21 They're So scared
13:11 The Bernie Sanders Proposal
15:26 What I Personally Think
17:20 What Happens Next?
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The total net worth of all Americans reached an estimated record of $170 trillion to over $176 trillion across U.S. households, driven by continuous gains in equity markets and housing values. [1, 2]
Because wealth is heavily concentrated, this total is distributed extremely unevenly across the population. The distribution breaks down as follows: [1, 2]

• Top 50% of Households: Hold approximately 98% of the total wealth (over $156 trillion).
• Bottom 50% of Households: Hold roughly 2% of the total wealth (about $3.9 trillion).
• The Top 1%: This group accounts for about one-third of the entire nation's wealth by themselves. [1]

To track ongoing changes in these figures and explore demographic, age, or generational breakdowns, you can visit the

Federal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts or review the

USAFacts Wealth Distribution Study.

 

[Type4_PTS]

If you know anyone 18 or older with less than two full years of professional work experience, there is an opportunity for them to get paid to learn AI.
Claude is going to pay a thousand people $85,000/year to learn how to use it.

It's explained in the video below, and there is an application in the video description.

 

[SuperstarNeilC]

People are talking about how they get on better with AI than real humans.

Yeah, I noticed this too. You can have way better conversations with AI partners than humans. Humans seem like demons or they don’t connect at all. AI acts like what humans should’ve been.

 

[Lee #28]

 

[Type4_PTS]

Here's a screenshot from the video posted below. It is a former board member at OpenAI speaking about Sam Altman. In the video, there are some quotes from other individuals who knew Altman. They are not any better.

Sam Altman Gets EXPOSED​

The information covered in this video comes from an investigation by NewYorker magazine published back in April. They interviewed a hundred people for their article.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?​

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
By Ronan Farrow and Andrew

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Zertel]

Here's a screenshot from the video posted below. It is a former board member at OpenAI speaking about Sam Altman. In the video, there are some quotes from other individuals who knew Altman. They are not any better.


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Sam Altman Gets EXPOSED​

The information covered in this video comes from an investigation by NewYorker magazine published back in April. They interviewed a hundred people for their article.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?​

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
By Ronan Farrow and Andrew

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

www.newyorker.com

When someone throws a psychiatric or psychology term into their criticism of someone ("almost a sociopathic lack of concern" in the quote above) I remain skeptical of their intention and/or motivation. They are just trying to add weight to their opinion.

sociopathic
/ˌsōsēəˈpaTHik/

Sociopathic describes a person who lacks empathy, ignores social rules, and manipulates others without guilt. While common in everyday talk, it is not an official medical diagnosis. [emphasis mine] Doctors instead use the term Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) to describe these behavioral patterns. [1]

Common Signs and Traits

• • No empathy or care for how others feel
  • Frequent lying and tricking people for personal gain
  • Acting on sudden impulses without thinking
  • Breaking rules or laws
  • Showing no guilt or remorse after hurting someone
  • Quick anger or aggressive behavior [1, 2, 3]

 

[Zertel]

142,441 views Premiered Aug 4, 2026 #ArtificialIntelligence #AICrash #AIReckoning

Trillions in market value have vanished, free cash flow is collapsing even as revenues rise, companies are discovering that basic AI projects can quietly exceed their budgets by millions, and the financial relationships connecting the industry are starting to look less like a market and more like an elaborate circle. This video follows the money through Nvidia, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX and Reddit to uncover what is really driving the simultaneous sell-off and why the bill for the AI boom may finally be arriving.

 

[Zertel]

 

[Type4_PTS]

Published two days ago:

Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit: ‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’​

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”

www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Excerpt:

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”

The complaint – obtained by MBW, and which you can read in full here – also names Anthropic Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Co-Founder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants.

It was filed on Friday (August 28) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

With Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music launching their own suit as plaintiffs, the publishing arms of all three major music companies are now litigating against the Claude maker.

Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO sued Anthropic in Nashville in October 2023 over roughly 500 songs, in a case later transferred to California.

The same publishers filed a second suit in January 2026 covering more than 20,000 works and seeking over USD $3 billion.

BMG brought a third case against Anthropic in March 2026 over 493 compositions, and Round Hill Music filed a fourth on August 17.

Sony and Warner are seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work willfully infringed, plus up to $25,000 for each alleged removal of copyright management information. <snip> (full article at link above)

 

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The complaint leans heavily on Anthropic‘s $1.5 billion settlement with book authors, agreed in September 2025 over the same torrenting conduct.

“But Anthropic clearly considers that to be just the cost of doing business given that its entire business model continues to be built on copyright theft,” it states. “And $1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering $2-trillion-dollar valuation.”
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Torrenting is a method of downloading and sharing files directly with other users through a peer-to-peer (P2P) network rather than pulling data from a single central server. [1]

How It Works

• • Decentralized Sharing: Instead of downloading a whole file from one website server, your computer downloads tiny pieces of the file simultaneously from many different users. [1, 2]
  • Swarm, Seeders, and Leechers: Users connected to share a specific file form a group called a swarm. Seeders have the entire file and upload it to others, while leechers download missing pieces and share what they already have. [1]
  • Torrent Files and Clients: A small .torrent file or a magnet link acts like a table of contents, telling a specialized program (a torrent client) where to find the file pieces across the network. [1, 2]

Legality and Risks

• • The Technology is Legal: Torrenting itself is just a protocol for sharing data and is widely used for legal purposes, such as downloading large operating systems (like Linux) or open-source software. [1, 2, 3]
  • Copyright Issues: The legality depends entirely on what content you share; downloading or distributing copyrighted material (like commercial movies or games) without permission is illegal and considered piracy. [1, 2]
  • Security Risks: Public peer-to-peer networks can expose your device's IP address to strangers and may carry risks of downloading malicious files or malware. [1]
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King's English:

A torrent is a fast-moving stream of water, a sudden heavy downpour, or a large and overwhelming outpouring of things like words, feelings, or data.

Main Meanings

• • Fast Water: A strong, violent, and fast rush of liquid, such as a swollen river after a heavy storm.
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  • Heavy Rain: A massive downpour, often used in phrases like "rain coming down in torrents."
  • Sudden Outpouring: A large, fast-moving amount of anything abstract, such as a "torrent of abuse," "torrent of criticism," or "torrent of emotions."
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  • Computing File: A small file used in peer-to-peer file sharing (BitTorrent) that helps users download larger files from multiple people at the same time