Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted.

The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic’s Claude Code in May. — Read More

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Will OpenAI’s Critterz make or break AI filmmaking?

You may have missed the AI movie Critterz when it appeared as a short animation a couple of years ago. It didn’t exactly set the world on fire, with comments on YouTube including “I’d call this garbage, but that’d be an insult to garbage” and “This was the worst 5 minutes I will never get back”.

Nevertheless, it seems OpenAI, the maker of Chat GPT, saw potential in the ‘nature documentary turned comedy’. It’s putting its name behind the experimental short’s expansion into a feature-length movie intended for a debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026 followed by a full cinema release. Will it show that AI is ready to take on Hollywood and slash the costs of filmmaking, or will it do the opposite like ‘Netflix of AI’ Showrunner? — Read More

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