Nilay Patel

It’s a super fun visual database of different video techniques and shot types with tons of reference clips. Websites! They’re rad.

There’s a really important lesson in here but also: swag pope forever lol.

So there’s a creator called icemanfox1 on TikTok who uses Digital Combat Simulator to make super realistic clips of fighter jets. You might call them machinima, or link them to the use of Unity and Unreal Engine in Hollywood. They’re not AI, but they are surely synthetic media, and it feels like only a matter of time before game engines incorporate generative AI anyway. Where do you think the line is? I bet we’ll be thinking about it for a long time to come.

Did I have to apologize to host Shumita Basu for answering every question with a question about the nature of human emotions? I did. But I think that might be the entire point!

More on the Vergecast tomorrow.

It’s all been like this. Help.

As the TikTok hearing rages on, a reminder that both parties in Congress seem pretty irritated they can’t just make government speech regulations because of that pesky First Amendment.