generative AI
10 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2023 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about generative AI, oldest first
Jul 7, 2023 bearish
Apr 5, 2024 bearish
Dave Morin: AI media is disposable 'sugar food' building no brand
“This is what I, look, I think that you end up with kind of a barbell, right? Where you have a whole lot of AI generated stuff that has an extremely fast metabolism through culture, right? Like this, like lots of stuff coming. It's like, I don't know, it's like…”
Apr 5, 2024 neutral
Jun 21, 2024 neutral
Aug 9, 2024 negative
Sam Lessin: Creator success requires edge and differentiation, not generic AI tools
“Is, it's exactly the type of shit that just everyone comes blind to is everyone does the same thing, and then no one gives a shit. The whole creative thing is finding edge. It's edge. You gotta do something different.”
Nov 29, 2024 neutral
Vascellaro: Hollywood AI Adoption Requires Native Interfaces, Not Prompt Engineering
“I think it'd be once they figure out a more native prompt engineering to the creative process, that's when I think we're going to be like, oh no, how prevalent is this going to be? Cause right now it just feels like no one would, people would rather be doing t…”
Nov 29, 2024 bullish
Apr 4, 2025 bearish
Lessin: The generative AI infrastructure boom is ZIRP's final gasp
“This is like the last death knell of Zerp where people are like, fuck, we need to stuff a bunch of cash somewhere. Right. Ideally with downside protection, which is nice because we're buying like fucking real estate and servers and power.”
Apr 25, 2025 bearish
Sam Lessin: Digital entertainment economy will collapse to zero value under AI
“The entertainment economy has got to go to zero, right? It's just an AI jerk off feed. It's going to be highly personalized, like whatever, like there's going to be no, there's no, there's, it's not like, I can't, I just don't imagine a world where there's any…”
Mar 6, 2026 bearish
Sam Lessin: Generative AI destroys software defensibility because creation is trivial
“No one's going to build a company doing any of this stuff because it's too easy to build, right? Like there's no software defensibility to any of it, right? Like, so you just have to be really pure on business model and like why it is that you're going to have…”