Simon Willison

It's reminiscent of one of the most fun agent business things has been Anthropic.

Keep on setting loose this vending machine.

Yes.

And then a few months ago, they put it in the Wall Street Journal.

Oh, my God.

Did you see this, Adam?

What do you think happens when you let a bunch of Wall Street Journal reporters loose on a Slack channel with their vending machine to see if they can trick it into giving everything away for free and the workers own the rights to production, all of this stuff.

It was ridiculous.

Absolutely absurd.

They engineered a board revolt.

They managed to get the CEO overthrown by the board through faking PDFs of board minutes.

It was just amazing.

I do want to, I want to call out my biggest miss, which is that I said that I think it was my three year prediction was somebody would win an Oscar for a film that had had some element of generative AI assistance in making the movie.

And then I found out everything, everywhere, all the way at once used generative AI in the scene with the rocks.

Like, so they'd already gotten Oscar, like, two years ago.

It's the cute animals.

Cute animal videos are no longer trustworthy.

Yeah, that's right.

And it's horrifying.

Oh, my God.