Okay, denial phase is officially over, folks. What publishers, creators, and pretty much anyone with a website have been yelling for months is finally breaking through the corporate spin.

And the best part? It’s not some X randos this time—it’s coming from the actual execs who swore everything was smooth and fine.

Spoiler alert: it’s very much not fine. In-fact, AI is breaking the internet in more ways than we realize.

First up: Google, for months has been all sunshine and rainbows, insisting the web is thriving, clicks are “stable,” and search is still the great traffic firehose it’s always been. Sundar said it. Liz Reid said it. Nick Fox said it, heck the whole choir sang the same tune.

But then — plot twist. In a DOJ courtroom battle (y’know, the one that could chop up Google’s ad empire), the company finally admitted that “The open web is already in rapid decline.”

Their argument? If the government forces a breakup, it’ll speed up that decline and hurt publishers even more.

Now, of course, Google tried to walk it back: saying the line was taken out of context. But hey, the slip’s out in the open— traffic’s tanking, AI summaries are hogging the clicks, and the supposedly “thriving” web is bleeding out.

Meanwhile, Over on X, Sam Altman had a mini-meltdown of his own. He’s scrolling Reddit, sees wall-to-wall posts hyping OpenAI’s Codex… and then it hits him: he literally can’t tell if it’s humans or bots, hyping his own product. Awkward, right?

In his own words:

“AI Twitter/AI Reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago.”

And honestly? He’s right:

Put the puzzle together and:

The Big Picture: The web isn’t just “changing.” It’s basically getting reprogrammed on the fly—by AI, by algorithms, by bots that never sleep . And the wildest part? The loudest confessions are coming from the same folks who hyped this mess to begin with.

Our take: 

Don’t buy the PR bedtime stories. When the deniers start spilling tea, you know the problem’s already bigger than their control panel. And unless someone hits the reset button fast, the next version of the internet won’t be built for humans—it’ll be bots talking to bots while we watch from the sidelines.

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After years of AI hype, doomsday predictions, and more thinkpieces than anyone asked for…Hollywood is officially moving forward with its first real AI-powered movie.

Yup, you read that right.

Meet Critterz — the first major AI-assisted film, backed by OpenAI and racing toward a Cannes 2026 premiere.

The backstory’s wild: three years ago, Chad Nelson (now at OpenAI) messed around with DALL-E to whip up some weird little forest critters for a short parody. Fast-forward and that tiny side project has morphed into a full-scale production with heavyweight backing from Vertigo Films (London), Native Foreign (L.A.), and Federation Studios.

The crazy part? Instead of the usual 3 years and $100M budget for an animated movie, this team’s aiming to knock it out in just 9 months — for under $30M. The secret weapon? A mash-up of human artists and AI tools (yep, GPT-5 included).

The setup looks like this:

Why it matters:

If Critterz sticks the landing, it won’t just be a quirky AI experiment — it’ll be proof that AI can actually carry a whole movie production.

And don’t forget the backdrop: Hollywood’s deeply split on AI. Lawsuits are flying, last year’s strikes were all about stopping actors from being cloned, and while Netflix scrambles to write new rules, Disney and Universal are busy suing Midjourney. It’s a mess.

So… genius move or total chaos? Honestly, a little of both.

AI tools are way better than they were a couple years ago — visuals are cleaner, animation tricks are smarter, and social feeds are already full of AI-made clips that look shockingly real. But the real question isn’t can the tech make images. It’s this: will people actually show up for an AI-assisted movie? Will they feel the heart — or just the polish?

Bottom line: Critterz is Hollywood’s guinea pig.

Either way, this is the opening bell for the “AI vs. Hollywood” showdown.

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