Ah this is terrible.

The bee population is already struggling, and there’s no way this one survived after getting stuck in dude’s throat.

Reportedly the dude was also a dick, and horrible to his ex-wife, but the bee didn’t know that before it killed him.

This really shouldn’t be news.

I suppose JK Rowling, regardless of her personal politics, made her actual money by writing the world’s most popular children’s book series. Likewise George Lucas I guess is probably a billionaire too. And Taylor Swift.

But these are examples of incredibly lucky creators of novel IPs. There’s always been a handful of these people on the lower end of the upper end of economic power.

According to the article she was swallowed. Not likely to come back from that.

AI is good for producing low-stakes outputs where validity is near irrelevant, or outputs which would have been scrutinized by qualified humans anyway.

It often requires massive amounts of energy and massive amounts of (questionably obtained) pre-existing human knowledge to produce its outputs.

Sue that therapist for malpractice! Wait…oh.