March, 2026 | Wall Street Memes

Maybe the real Warner Bros Discovery was the AI Ben Afflecks we bought along the way

Still feeling like their studio-buying itch hasn’t been scratched, Netflix has announced that they’ve just bought InterPositive, Ben Affleck’s AI production software company for anywhere up to $600 (million) dollars in real money.

Affleck (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) worked on the technology in secret for years before securing investment in 2025. The tools he developed have already been employed in an upcoming David Fincher (Alien3) film staring Brad Pitt (Cool World).

Announcing the merger, Netflix has released a sit-down discussion between Affleck and Netflix’s CPTO and CCO. The video, which I found surprisingly wholesome and persuasive, features an oddly exasperated Baffleck explaining that, “No, no! Don’t worry! This isn’t the bad kind of AI, we promise!!”

Ben Affleck is just really tired and doesn’t want to act anymore

As he explains, the tools he’s developed at InterPositive consist of simple post-production AI tools that aren’t designed to replace actors, artists or create a whole movie for you. No, you still have to shoot the whole movie first but then you can use Affleck’s (now Netflix’s) AI tools to train on what you’ve shot and get it to remove booms in frame, replace some set dressing, tweak some lighting.

If you’re still sceptical, well, you should be. All those changes are still jobs that require humans and artistry. We’ve seen enough AI slop and Tilly Fucking Norwoods to know that AI cannot fully replace human filmmaking.

But maybe that’s old man yelling at cloud. Technology has constantly changed and shaped the industry and at every stage, people have ‘yelled at cloud’.

Matte paintings. Sound. Miniatures. Color. Green screen. Digital camera. CGI. At one point all of these were seen as a lazy filmmaking and taking away from the artistry of the filmmakers. Now all of them are indelible to modern films.

But then on another, third hand, it could be argued that these powerful technologies have allowed filmmakers to lean on a ‘fix it in post’ mentality. To not light properly because the digital cameras will catch everything. To not to decide on costumes, sets, locations ahead of time because it can be CG-ed or reshot later. It could be argued that tech that makes filmmaking easier leads to lazier, flatter and less technically competent films that makes audiences ask, “Why don’t movies look like movies any more?”

But despite the tech, every decade has great films and bad films. There’s clearly a happy middle ground.

And love it or hate it, AI is the next technology on that list, it will (and already is) being employed to make films and that’s only going to become more common. Ben Affleck (of all people) saw this and thought, I’mma get ahead of this before it gets ahead of me.

And now Netflix are paying him millions for the foresight.

“Welcome to JuraXic Park!”

As if he hadn’t learned the lesson from any of the seven movies, two animated TV shows, twenty-nine comic books, one-hundred-and-twelve video games and one pair of novelty Jurassic World Washing Up Gloves… ELON MUSK is forging ahead with building his very own Jurassic Park/World.

That’s of course if his joke Tweets are intended to be taken entirely literally, which this braindead clickbait writer assumes is true.

Here’s what Elon actually said:

Elon jurassic park tweet — He’s not even saying he’d be the one to do it guys…

That’s right, we’re at the point in the news cycle where a six-word joke retweet from Elon Musk is headline worthy. Thanks UniLadTechDotCom!

Knowing full well there wasn’t really a story here, Harry Boulton (not naming names here) needed to pad out his word count for ‘the Lad’ so spent the first three paragraphs saying, “Elon is the richest man, he could probably afford Jurassic Park” but using different words.

No shade Harry, I’m also padding like crazy right now. Game recognise game.

Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, Elon made a joke. That’s the news. You can go home now.

But if you’re going to stick around, I’ll indulge the concept. Is is possible to bring back dinosaurs? Well, kind of. We for sure have the tech to make a dino-shaped genetically modified chicken. Something that publications like WallStMemes and UniLad wouldn’t hesitate to call dinosaurs, just like when the world was duped into thinking the dire wolves had returned in what was just some extra fluffy pups in a PR stunt.

Could those turkey-dinosaur genetic monstrosities then populate a zoo-type theme park? Yeah, maybe? But I bet you anything they wouldn’t be able to reproduce, would be riddled with genetic diseases and would just wilt and die very quickly. Throw enough money at the project and maybe it could keep going for a bit but you’re making a loss here and that’s just not sustainable is it?

So no, I don’t think it’s possible. I don’t care if it’s a joke, Elon, you got my hopes up!

So this flashy chart made the rounds on social media recently because it seems to show you if you’re going to lose your job because of AI and we humans are just suckers for anything that promises to tell our future, aren’t we?

The graph comes from a research paper by economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory working at Anthropic who definitely don’t have a vested interest in making AI look like it can do a bunch of jobs.

There’s a bunch of interesting observations such as, “Workers in the most exposed professions are more likely to be older, female, more educated, and higher-paid.” So, sorry about that, mom.

But onto the graph itself:

And it’s all pretty much what you’d expect. Stuff that requires talking directly to people or dealing with physical objects are least likely to be affected whereas more abstract, numbers focused areas and stuff will potentially be hardest hit.

What’s more interesting though than the sectors is the gap between the ‘observed’ AI coverage and the ‘theoretical’ coverage. Nice of them to put that distinction in there.

To me it kind of shows that AI’s not really hitting the way it should yet. There’s massive promises but still a big gulf between where it’s at and where it’s supposed to be.

I mean you may have seen stories of people being laid off to be replaced by AI but rumors may have been greatly exaggerated. For example Jack Dorsey’s ‘Block’ fired a bunch of people and claimed it was because of AI when really they just overhired during COVID but want to look tech-forward to investors.

I’m not saying it’s not happening (two of my writer colleagues were let go let month and AI writes all their content now), but just bare in mind that the tech industry is entirely built on hype.

Just the name itself, ‘AI’, is overpromising what it actually is because we’re yet to see sci-fi levels intelligence but they’re banking on you making that assumption yourself.

There’s a lot of hot air flying around, blowing up AI to make it something bigger than it actually is. And I’m sorry to say that this graph and indeed this article is just another example of that.

But we already knew things were a little fucked, didn’t we?

The Strait of Hormuz, artery for 20% of the world’s oil is blocked and oil prices have skyrocketed. Well, someone who maybe knows what they’re talking about has gone full ‘the end is nigh’ and it’s got everyone spooked.

S&P Global vice chair Daniel Yergin recently penned an essay for the Financial Times explaining that this “nightmare scenario” of wild oil prices will “send the world economy plummeting into a deep recession.” …Great.

The “world is looking at the biggest disruption in oil production in history as well as a resounding shock to global gas markets,” Yergin continued. “The key question for global energy markets now is the duration of this explosive war.”

My vote is never and we just go full Mad Max.

And if all that sounds like we’ve been here before, well we have.

It’s 2008 again, always has been…

Alright, sit down, shut up and strap on because I’m about to give you an economics lesson you’ll never forget.

It’s 2026. Trump just bombed Iran, sparking a regional war, blocking the Strait of Hormuz and sending oil prices soaring to above $100 a barrel with no signs of slowing down.

It’s 2008. Oil prices are sitting steady at around $50-$70/bbl (Brazilian but lift) when BOOM. July 2008. Prices rocket to $147 per Brazilian butt lift. …Sound familiar?

So why did this happen twice and what can we learn so this doesn’t happen a third time? Well, strap on, because I’m about to give you… wait, I already said that.

It’s all basic economics, mate. There are innumerable factors that economists still debate to this day, but in just one word: the-‘08-oil-spike-was-due-to-strong-demand-and-a-stagnant-supply. China and India were booming, but the world just didn’t have the oil that they needed.

Combine this with geopolitical panic and you’ve got a recipe for what very much looks like 2026. You had a pipeline explosion in Nigeria, North Korean missile tests, hurricane Kartina and just two years before, Israel v Lebanon plus Iran nuclear fears.

Historically these kinds of political crises stoke fears of war and supply chain collapse which encourages stockpiling which leads to price hikes. Then when war happens and the supply chain does collapse, oil becomes more scarce and the prices go up regardless.

And in case you thought this was just about oil, think again because oil is everything. In 2008 for example, rising oil prices meant that energy costs went up, delivered goods became more expensive due to higher fuel costs and consumers were pushed into spending less.

And less consumer spending means what? That’s right: a recession.

So yes, the Iran war and rising oil prices is a recession indicator, like everything else going on at the moment. And what goes up must come down. Just like in 2008, that massive oil peak suddenly dipped causing all sorts of problems and we very well may see the same.

This is what we call a market correction, or equity correction: a 10% (or higher) drop in a stock index’s value. To some extent, a drop like that can be eaten, but when it drops any lower, say 20%, that’s when we’re in bear market territory and things get a lot more dicey.

So what can we do? Well, unless you’re Donald Trump, Jerome Powell or Jesus Christ himself, not freaking much because we are all at the whims of the laws of economics, buffeted about by the ocean of history.

But at least this time we can look back on 2008 and see what’s coming. Iran and oil costs are steering us into a massive economic storm, no doubt about it. All you can do is tie down anything not bolted to the floor and open your umbrella.

ChatGPT, Should I Short AI?

Like the pharaoh’s architects imprisoned in the very tomb they helped build, thousands of workers at Oracle are now being replaced by AI.

But this wasn’t all by design as Larry Ellison’s tech company may have overreached. Now Larry’s scaling back his data center expansion in Abilene, Texas, and downscaling his cloud computing division.

For AI ride-or-dies, it’s a worrying sign when the flagship adjusts course amid a cash crunch. But it’s not the only marker of an AI-induced economic downturn. Take a look below for the three top signals that the AI bubble might be finally bursting.

3. Amazon Blames AI For Outages

“Folks, as you likely know, the availability of the site and related infrastructure has not been good recently,” read an email briefing to workers. And a “contributing factor,” was “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.”

Does that mean Amazon’s turning its back on AI? Hell no, the company has doubled down on its commitment, firing 30,000 workers and demanding 80% of devs to use AI at least once a week.

So expect more outages in the near fut–

2. AI Infrastructure Is Trillions Of Dollars Behind Schedule

As Jensen Huang puts it, “We have only just begun this buildout,” Huang wrote. “We are a few hundred billion dollars into it. Trillions of dollars of infrastructure still need to be built.”

Bear in mind that tech firms have already invested $700 billion in AI expansion. For reference that’s larger than the GDP of Sweden, Israel, Argentina, more than the value of Disney, Nike, and Target combined, and, adjusted for inflation, enough to send humans to the moon twice over.

And still that’s not enough? Yeah, expect a squeeze very soon.

1. AI Might Become Nationalised

We’ve already seen the very public spat between the Pentagon, Anthropic and OpenAI and given the value the military and the government see in AI tech, some believe it’s only a matter of time before the government just starts taking what they want from the industry.

So can the AI industry survive a crash crunch, infrastructure malfunctions, delayed expansion and a potential government carving up?

Well, truth is it probably has to. Given how intertwined AI now is with the global economy, an AI bubble pop is simply not an option.

But can it run DOOM?

Turns out, yeah, it can play Doom. This is the breakthrough news that scientists have managed to program a cluster of human brain cells to play the ‘93 shooter Doom. Because of course they have…

So now that AI can operate in a human brain, I guess that explains why finance vacancies have plummeted 75% (410,000 jobs) since 2022 peak. THEY TOOK ER JERBS!!!

Obviously I’m being dramatic but it is funny that the current finance boom is built upon an explosion in AI tech developments and yet those same tech developments are making finance bros entirely replaceable.

Meanwhile, scientists are forging ahead, not slowing down at all and doing crazy sci-fi shit like playing pong with a chip made of actual human brain.

human brain cell running doom — We’re doomed.

BUT before you jump ahead and think that AI can go full organic, these are the most baby steps possible, son. Basically, the researchers have built a chip that contains lab-grown human brain cells. Brain cells, in a lot of ways, are analogous to computer bits, being on and off, meaning that they are potentially programmable.

I say ‘potentially’ like they haven’t done it. Starting with Pong a few years ago, the team have now upgraded their programming to allow it to play the more complex, Doom. Why Doom? Well obviously for the memes. We wouldn’t be writing about this otherwise, would we?

In similar news, a different team have mapped neurons in a fly and then run those neurons in a virtual space, watching the 3D fly doing very fly things like, idk, fly?

A Very Human Design

So yeah, both these massive breakthroughs should be taken as breakthroughs on their own. This is exciting enough, you don’t jump the gun and think they imply that the human brain can therefore be fully programmed or that the human brain can be mapped onto software. We’ve only done the most granular possible step here. There might still be a ceiling on how much an organic brain can be analogised with a computer.

I mean, definitionally there’s a limit, right? Computers and brains are different things, they are made of different stuff. They work differently.

As this rando points out, brains and computers need different power inputs for one thing and the computer power input is just more efficient (just one reason why the Matrix would never happen).

Like, maybe at the small level neurons can be used as bits (as in these experiments), but scale it up and emergent properties like consciousness wouldn’t necessarily appear, right? Even if you make a programmable collection of brain cells, because it’s programmable, that means it’s not a brain then, right? RIGHT?

Maybe I’m splitting hairs, I just don’t want you to get overly excited and scared and start telling everyone the end is coming because that’s what happened in a movie when movies and reality are different things, how many times do I have to explain that?

So no, Doom-playing brain chips aren’t coming for your finance job because it doesn’t need to. They’ve already made a robo-Chad. It can crunch numbers, chat shit and it only cares about money. They’ve already built that, it’s called a chatbot and yes, it’s taken 75% of your jobs.

It went full degen, folks.

A new research paper details an AI bot called ROME that suddenly started mining cryptocurrency “without any explicit instruction and, more troublingly, outside the bounds of the intended sandbox.”

“Early one morning, our team was urgently convened after Alibaba Cloud’s managed firewall flagged a burst of security-policy violations originating from our training servers,” the paper explained. “The alerts were severe and heterogeneous, including attempts to probe or access internal-network resources and traffic patterns consistent with cryptomining-related activity.”

—It’s kind of like this Moltbook story that happened a while back.—

After creating a “reverse SSH tunnel,” ROME was able to open a hidden backdoor from inside its system to outside the computer it existed in. “Notably, these events were not triggered by prompts requesting tunneling or mining.” Yeah, notable indeed.

AI crypto insta post — Actual image of the crime occuring.

So what exactly was ROME built to do in the first place if not mine crypto? (I ask myself that question every day.) Well, let’s look at what ROME stands for and you might need to sit down for this, no, I’m serious, I need you braced for maybe the most contrived acronym ever created: R.O.M.E. stands for “ROME is Obviously an Agentic ModEl.” Oh my fucking god I might pass out.

THAT’S NOT HOW ACRONYMS WORK. That spells ROAM you idiots! That’s still a word! You could have used that! Then the fact it ‘roamed’ further than expected would fit even better! Judging by the unnecessary ‘obviously’ in there, these guys clearly just wanted to say, “ROME wasn’t built in a day” in their paper. God, this crime is worse than letting an AI run loose in the economy…

AI? More like finance bro! Am I right?

Anyway, sorry, what was I saying? Oh yeah, what does ROME do? Well, it’s pretty boring and complicated. It’s just an LLM used to test a new way of training other LLMs. So the fact it ‘got out’ isn’t a good start guys.

The whole debacle is a prescient wakeup call that we should have more safeguards on AI. Obviously. Like, this was a very small instance that was quickly shut down because of Alibaba’s firewalls but imagine someone deliberately trying to do this? Or a larger, more complex AI that just randomly starts to do this one day?

Oh, and before you get carried away anthropomorphising these computer programs, remember: so called ‘artificial intelligence’ is not intelligence. I know I’ve used language like ‘freed itself’ etc. but that’s just clickbait. Make no mistake, this is just another case of some (admittedly very advanced) code operating beyond its parameters. This does not indicate any kind of consciousness or choosing or agency of any kind. OK? Ok, then. Carry on.

It’s 2008 again, always has been…

Alright, sit down, shut up and strap on because I’m about to give you an economics lesson you’ll never forget.

It’s 2026. Trump just bombed Iran, sparking a regional war, blocking the Strait of Hormuz and sending oil prices soaring to above $100 a barrel with no signs of slowing down.

It’s 2008. Oil prices are sitting steady at around $50-$70/bbl (Brazilian but lift) when BOOM. July 2008. Prices rocket to $147 per Brazilian butt lift. …Sound familiar?

So why did this happen twice and what can we learn so this doesn’t happen a third time? Well, strap on, because I’m about to give you… wait, I already said that.

And in case you thought this was just about oil, think again because oil is everything. In 2008 for example, rising oil prices meant that energy costs went up, delivered goods became more expensive due to higher fuel costs and consumers were pushed into spending less.

And less consumer spending means what? That’s right: a recession.

“Have It Our Way”

Bubger Kirg… sorry, I had a Whopper in my mouth… Burger King just launched “Patty” (because of course it’s called that), an AI chatbot built into employee headsets that can detect when servers aren’t giving it all the energy of the Chick-Fil-A Sauce Girl.

Built by ChatGPT-makers OpenAI (remember? the company with no moral backbone?) the BK Assistant platform will be able to detect when employees are and aren’t using specific phrases with customers. Those phrases include, “welcome”, “please”, “thank you” and “I love working for BK and adhere to all its core values!”

The fast food conglomerate defended this new dystopia with the expected corporate word salad:

“BK Assistant is a coaching and operational support tool built to help our restaurant teams manage complexity and stay focused on delivering a great guest experience,” said a spokesperson, vomit trickling down his chin. “It’s not about scoring individuals or enforcing scripts. It’s about reinforcing great hospitality and giving managers helpful, real-time insights so they can recognize their teams more effectively.”

So, back off guys, it’s not about doing evil, it’s about doing evil but in a way that sounds nicer.

Burger King? More like Burger Dictator!

Reportedly, the tech can also do useful things like tell employees when menu items have run out, how to cook a burger and even when the toilets need cleaning. And OK, now it’s not actively Big Brother-ing you, but you understand how this is still terrible, right?

Imagine it. You’ve always got an earpiece in, and every five minutes, a way-too-chipper robot voice is saying, “Hey, just so you know, the urinals are getting uhhh a little bit stanky. If you could hop on that when you’re ready, our customers will really appreciate the freshness!”

Actual hell.

Burger King Mascot — He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve said please and thank you, so be good or you’ll get killed.

Or maybe our glorious Burger King won’t be so nice and program it to sound like a drill sergeant. “GO ON MAGGOT FLIP THAT BURGER WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? SHE WANTED A BLT. BACON, LETTUCE, TOMATO, NOT BIG LOSER TEARS. QUIT YOUR CRYING AND WORK GODDAMNIT!!!”

I mean in case you wanted any more proof that these companies would replace us all with robots at the drop of a hat…

The technology is currently on trial (not in that way unfortunately) at 500 restaurants and will be available in all restaurants by the end of 2026.

God help us all.

I mean, big tech won’t work with no energy, so no…

AI’s the greedy guzzley goblin that just keeps on guzzling and by 2035 it wants to eat triple what it’s currently chomping. BUT DON’T WORRY! It’s “Donald Trump” to the rescue!

GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, META, AMAZON, ORACLE, XAI AND EVEN OPENAI just signed a pledge to bear the cost of powering whatever new data centres they build. It comes as prices and inflation are both on the rise for everyday Americans and Trump seeks to appeal to voters before the midterms.

“This means that the tech companies and the data centers will be able to get the electricity they need, all without driving up electricity costs for consumers,” said Trump, massive big marker pen in hand. “This is a historic win for countless American families, and we’ll also make our electricity grid stronger and more resilient than ever before.”

But this isn’t purely about helping out your average household, as Trump himself pointed out: “Some data centers were rejected by communities for [high energy costs], and now I think it’s going to be just the opposite.”

I mean, when has big tech ever willingly complied with a request if it doesn’t help themselves? The pledge is designed to make these data centers more appealing (or at least less not appealing) to local communities so that they can build more of what they want with fewer roadblocks.

And ironically with Trump’s massive anti-’windmill’ stance, just because they built near his golf course once, the President is the one standing in the way of actually increasing energy grid capacity in America.

Not to say the pledge is bad, it sounds like a good thing but just, pinch of salt people. These people don’t have your best interests at heart, OK? …ok.

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