"Lyonne, who happens to be the co-founder of an A.I. studio, seemed to be implying that the revered filmmaker had offered his approval to the same nihilistic and destructive technology that recently enabled President Donald Trump to imagine himself as a king in a fighter jet dropping payloads of diarrhea on the people he's sworn to serve. But Lynch's public statements about A.I., like his public statements about lots of things, mixed earnest, generalized optimism with dread."
"In January, amid the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, Lynch was evacuated from his home and died shortly thereafter, of complications from emphysema. Days later, on what would have been Lynch's seventy-ninth birthday, Trump was inaugurated into his second term. This coincidence of timing meant that, in the outpouring of public grief following Lynch's death, viewers were discovering or returning to his life's work at the same time that they were sustaining the first avalanches of cruelty and engineered disaster which have characterized much of the second Trump Administration."
Natasha Lyonne relayed an anecdote that David Lynch said A.I. in the creative arts would soon be as ubiquitous and indispensable as the pencil. Lyonne's role as co-founder of an A.I. studio framed the remark amid examples of AI's misuse, including a grotesque deepfake by President Donald Trump. Lynch expressed mixed feelings: he acknowledged A.I.'s potential for beauty while warning that profit-driven deployment would bring sadness, despair, and horror. Lynch was evacuated during Los Angeles wildfires and died of emphysema complications in January. His death coincided with Trump's inauguration, prompting renewed engagement with Lynch's work as political cruelty escalated.
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