Harry McCracken

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259 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 31 Aug

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This Week in Tech (Audio) · TWiT 1099: Pantsless Whims - The Fallout From Meta's $18 Billion Settlement · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

There are relatively few Leos who've been able to do this for decades.

There are a lot of people who have podcasts or YouTube videos who are not making a fortune, but I think who are making a contribution to the world and uh getting some value out of the fact they're doing this or else they wouldn't do it.

Yeah, I f I feel like

Go ahead.

I do love individuals getting a hold of powerful tools.

I do not love the idea of Disney or Warner Brothers salivating at um eliminating vast numbers of jobs and replacing them with AI and uh I'm not sure whether I'm uh

just being unreasonable here when whether it's possible to the the love

Certain aspects of of what AI is doing and

I'm also skeptical that's a good idea.

am s skeptical that the people running the studios are excited about

making better movies via AI and in fact it might be very harmful to the quality of their movies where whereas there are individuals who are cranking out slop, but are they also individuals who I think are actually doing really interesting stuff with AI that would not exist without this technology.

Some of them were the ones who made the films that were in the the runway AI film festival.

Getting back to Brian Merchant, um, I don't always agree with Brian, but I always feel smarter and usually more alarmed when I read his stuff and and anything he does is is worth reading and thinking seriously about.

Also pen pencils and pens are inherently better than even like Adobe Illustrator, which has been around for forty years.

Right.

I'm I made a tool myself that does fake watercolor, but real watercolor will always be better.

Yeah, it's not very And there's a reason why we're still trying to make stuff look like watercolor.

Well I bought a Macmin Inc.

uh in March during this brief window when I could get one and uh

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