Tech-obsessed music lover. I don't fully endorse anything I say below.
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Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
AI has ruined writing.
Fentanyl has ruined drugs.
Bots have ruined comment sections.
Influencers have ruined vacations.
Airbnb has ruined renting.
Ticketmaster has ruined concerts.
Algorithms have ruined discovering music.
Autotune has ruined bad singing.
Ring cameras have ruined sneaking home.
DoorDash has ruined cheap takeout.
LinkedIn has ruined bragging.
Cryptocurrency has ruined getting scammed the old-fashioned way.
Podcasts have ruined knowing when to shut up.
Dating apps have ruined meeting people naturally.
Smartphones have ruined being bored.
Social media has ruined keeping your life private.
Netflix has ruined waiting for the next episode.
Spoilers have ruined watching movies unprepared.
Corporate jargon has ruined speaking normally.
Online reviews have ruined trusting your own judgment.
Subscription services have ruined owning things.
AI influencers have ruined knowing who's even real.
Food delivery apps have ruined cooking out of convenience.
Smart TVs have ruined turning on the television and just watching something.
Group chats have ruined having one peaceful day.
Personal branding has ruined having a personality.
And hustle culture has ruined the idea of simply enjoying your life.
We invented technology to make life easier, then somehow made everything more exhausting.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
🚨 Australia is considering legalising the theft of worldwide creatives' work on its soil. 🚨
They plan to hand creatives' work to AI companies unless people 'opt out'. But most people will miss the chance to opt-out. This would be a forced transfer of wealth from creatives to AI companies that the Australian government has no right to make.
It doesn't just affect Australians. Wherever you live, AI companies will be able to exploit your work in Australia if this law passes.
If you have friends in Australia, please ask them to call their representatives and demand that the government not legalise this theft.
politico.com/news/2026/10/13…
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
"It's punk rock to pay corporations on subscription to remix stolen materials for you!"
I can't think of anything LESS punk rock than championing corporate exploitation, theft, and abuse.
AI is the new punk rock - @RickRubin
1000% agree and have been saying this for a while that we are entering a new golden era of creativity thanks to AI. Where my fellow punk rock AI creatives at? filmmakers, vibe coders, artists… let me know what you’re making.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too.
In a new lawsuit, two authors allege that Guillaume Lample, while an AI researcher at Meta, torrented 70 terabytes of pirated books for training Llama. (He later co-founded Mistral.) They also accuse Joelle Pineau, a former VP of AI Research, of being involved.
Suspect we will see more researchers sued in this way as the discovery process in other lawsuits reveals who was involved in getting copyrighted work for training.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
i love the "its inevitable so why fight it" argument coming from rich older women who spend a lot of time and money fighting another supposedly inevitable thing
#Cannes jury member Demi Moore says we need to "find ways" to work with AI:
"Against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. So to fight it is to fight a battle that we will lose. So to find ways that we can work with it is a valuable path that we can take."
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
The rapid technological evolution we are witnessing has accelerated speculative behavior in search of raw materials. This shift seems to overshadow fundamental imperatives such as the safeguarding of creation, the rights of local communities, the dignity of labor, and the protection of public health. I thus renew the appeal of Pope Francis, who passed away exactly one year ago: “Today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.”
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
This clown. Witherspoon sold a majority stake in her production company, Hello Sunshine, to the Blackstone-backed Candle Media for $900 million in 2021. Blackstone is currently a massive investor in AI infrastructure, including a $25 billion project for AI data centers.
Reese Witherspoon is braving backlash and doubling down on urging women to learn how to use AI tools:
“The AI revolution has begun, and I need to learn as much as I possibly can about AI and share it with all of you. Also, FYI: the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don’t want to be left behind. So…do you want to learn with me?”
variety.com/2026/more/news/r…
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
#ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
This is huge evidence of the AI bubble.
$450 billion vanished and produced nothing in the real economy.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
I’ve long said that current actors will now compete with dead actors for roles, due to AI usage. If anyone wants to see the checklist of ways AI implementation will pollute the business, here’s what I wrote in 2023: credo23.com/AIINFILM
FIRST LOOK: Val Kilmer has been resurrected via AI to star in the new movie "As Deep as the Grave."
Kilmer was cast in the movie in 2020, five years before his death. But he was too sick amid his throat cancer battle to ever make it to set. Now an AI version of the actor is appearing in the film, with the full blessing of his daughter, Mercedes: "He always looked at emerging technologies with optimism as a tool to expand the possibilities of storytelling. This spirit is something that we are all honoring within this specific film, of which he was an integral part.”
“He was the actor I wanted to play this role,” says writer-director Coerte Voorhees. “It was very much designed around him. It drew on his Native American heritage and his ties to and love of the Southwest... His family kept saying how important they thought the movie was and that Val really wanted to be a part of this. He really thought it was important story that he wanted his name on. It was that support that gave me the confidence to say, okay let’s do this. Despite the fact some people might call it controversial, this is what Val wanted.”
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Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
Groups in the UK who oppose AI exploiting creatives’ work without permission:
- 95% of artists
- Thousands of British musicians & authors
- 79% of Members of Parliament
- The House of Lords
- The Green Party
- 95% of respondents to the UK public consultation on the topic
Groups who explicitly want to entertain the possibility of allowing that exploitation:
- AI companies
- The Labour Party
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
What AI hawkers simply can't understand is: even if you put aside the stolen training data, unwanted integration, environmental impact, creation of low-trust culture, and dogshit output, they still talk and behave like fanatical tent preachers and no one wants to be around them.
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
wtf you stole my GPL3 project and copied it - not even forced it
Removed attribution and you are posting it as MIT
Are you serious?!
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.
In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.
To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.
People's work is not the government's to give away.
If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!
@AirFranceFR dites cela fait 30
Jours (!) que j’attends une réponse à mon claim du 30/12. J’ai perdu 400€ et 16h à cause de vos erreurs (particulièrement problèmatique la ligne platinum). Vous avez tellement été mauvais que même la chef de cabine et le capitaine ont appuyé mon claim. Depuis j’ai appelé 3x la ligne platinum qui m’a dit que vous aviez du retard “20 jours max”. Mais cela fait un mois! Et rien ne bouge le message n’est même pas lu! Que se passe t’il?
Alors @AirFranceFR @airfrance des nouvelles? Cela fait un mois maintenant sans aucun retour?
Virginie Berger ▶️ retweeted
Ah yes, victim-blaming.
Imagine sharing a family photo, only to see some freak cropped your underage daughter and made her into an AI pornstar.
Or imagine your son being framed with a fake rape video.
“Maybe stop posting photos of yourself” is like telling a girl deserved to get raped because she was wearing a skirt.
Or when British police were calling victims of grooming gangs “paki shaggers” and “white slags”.
Or when I was asked by a detective if I had ‘consented’ to sexual activity after being abused from the age of 5.
Women shouldn’t have to fear sharing innocent photos online. Women shouldn’t have to hide their hair or face or skin to avoid being called a slut. Women shouldn’t be told it’s their fault that perverts are using unregulated AI technology to defile and degrade them.
You are everything wrong with society right now. Not me.
My latest article is out. forbes.com/sites/virginieber…
I look at the recent AI music licensing deals (Suno and Udio), the lack of transparency around them, and what this actually means for artists and independents.
