🤖 AI - 🇨🇦 Actor Dan Aykroyd is fine with being in your AI-slop videos—so long as he gets paid

🚓 CRIME - Scammers are impersonating Girl Guides and pretending to sell their cookies across Canada

🍁 IMMIGRATION - Canada refuses to take back Bangladeshi man who ‘accidentally’ crossed the U.S. border and got arrested by ICE

Good morning.

OpenAI—the company behind ChatGPT—wants to build a massive network of warehouse-sized data centres across Canada to store the millions of terabytes of slop processed by its large language model every day.

“I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centres over time,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Data centres run hot. The average one devours as much electricity every day as the city of Scarborough.

They also guzzle water—a million litres a day, on average.

So it’s no surprise Altman is drooling over Canada and its nearly 10 million square kilometres of largely uninhabited land that holds about 20% of the world's total surface freshwater.

Worse, our Gen-X-captured government is eager to sell our resources to power the world’s foremost Slop Machine. AI Minister Evan Solomon is already meeting with OpenAI execs.

You don’t want Altman to get his way. 

If he does, you’ll pay more—lots more—for water and hydro… all so that your nephew can rot in his parents’ basement until he’s 40 with an AI-girlfriend he customized, while your 70-year-old neighbour doomscrolls Meta Vibes all day watching AI-generated videos of cats defending babies from bears.

We are in hell. 🔥 

Enjoy.

-Peter

PS: Don’t be one of those morons who say the em-dash is an AI tell. There are far better, more reliable ways to spot AI-slop prose—such as when you read a sentence structured like, “It’s not just [A], it’s [B].”

AI will one day steal your job. Why are you in such a hurry to give it the em-dash, too?

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🤖 AI 🤖

BOOMER ACTOR NOBODY CARES ABOUT WANTS TO WORK FOREVER

Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd wants to work forever.

The 70-year-old “Ghostbusters” star and founding “SNL” cast-member says he’s fine with people using his AI-generated likeness once he’s dead so that he can keep landing d-list acting gigs long after he’s dust.

His one condition? He wants to get paid for it.

In an interview with the Canadian Press (CP), Aykroyd mused that perhaps his History Channel show, “The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd,” could keep running after he’s dead.

“Certainly, if History Channel and AI want to generate me after I’m gone and have me out there doing the show, they can. But they have to pay my estate, my family, to do so,” Aykroyd said.

Aykroyd’s comments came after the CP reporter asked him about the millions of AI-generated videos featuring dead celebrities that have flooded the internet since OpenAI released Sora 2, its latest video generation model.

Aykroyd doesn’t seem to have any ethical concerns with this trend, but he does envision it opening up plenty of good lawsuit opportunities for washed-up actors.

“The legal representatives of these individuals are going to have to go to the carriers and say there has to be some kind of rights compensation,” he said.