Uncanny Valley | WIRED

Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie; Data Center Workers Are Fighting Back


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This week, the team discusses Amazon’s controversial decision to drop Luca Guadagnino’s film about OpenAI’s Sam Altman — which reportedly did not paint him in a favorable light. Alongside Google DeepMind’s $75 million brand new partnership with indie film studio A24, how much of a dent is AI actually having in the films we see? They also discuss the recent upheaval of workers — from electricians to software engineers — against data centers. Plus: Meta’s program to track employees’ data gets paused after a massive leak, and Anthropic is now getting along with the government thanks to CEO Dario Amodei no longer being in the room. 

Articles mentioned in this episode:

  • Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts | WIRED
  • Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak | WIRED
  • The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | WIRED 

    Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from the newest ventures to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests.


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