Joe's Journal

If AI businesses use your content or data, HOW should you be paid?

A rough sketch of how consent and compensation could actually work for GenAI training data.

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AI companies are robbing everyone

California AB-412 would force AI companies to be transparent about what data they’ve taken to build their models.

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Stacey Abrams on movies, religion, and the future of democracy

Btw, she just put out her 14th novel! And it’s about AI…

Dec 3 • 

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November 2025

Buying an AI Toy this Black Friday?

The temptation may be there, but these toys are governed by the same attention-maximizing algorithms that run our most addictive social media platforms.

Nov 25 • 

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AI companies are being sneaky 🐍

Big AI companies are trying to restrict states from regulating AI by adding an eleventh-hour provision to the annual National Defense Authorization Act.

Nov 19 • 

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Your digital self should belong to you

Speaking to an arena crowd about internet serfdom, AI’s fictitiously looming Hiroshima moment, and why my kids make me optimistic

Nov 18 • 

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Does “the algorithm” favor authoritarians like Donald Trump?

Social media feeds and AI chatbots are both driven by the same attention maximizers — what does that do to political discourse?

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October 2025

Why build an AI that's smarter than humans?

I've signed a petition, along with many smarter and more qualified people than myself, that calls for Superintelligence development to adhere to basic…

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I’m directing a Netflix movie about AI

A fictional story about very real things

Oct 10 • 

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I co-starred with Mark Zuckerberg in a new video

Meta’s AI algorithms are designed to prey on kids. As a dad, it makes me livid.

Oct 9 • 

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September 2025

I played drums along with Beyoncé & Miley

Could a pro drummer (or a computer) have done a more perfect job? Yes. But, perfect isn’t always the point.

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Trump, money, & creativity with Paul Krugman

It took about an hour, but by the end, I finally got the Nobel Prize winning economist to smile.

Sep 10 • 

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