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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I cannot believe the @seahawksofficial.com got Emmanwori good lord, is this me feeling… optimistic??

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ve started writing some longer pieces about AI and creative work. This week: The Ghibli-LOTR trailer, AI copy paste content & why AI tools maximizing our skills for virality and not originality. Link: aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/p/ai-ripoffs...

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AI Ripoffs, Rage-Clicks, and the Battle for Human Creativity

Why AI content that mimics or copies human creativity thrives & how you can use AI tools to reclaim originality.

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Damn it, RIP Val Kilmer Real Genius sure did mean a lot to us nerds in the 1980s

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I wrote some words on why some AI slop might actually be good. Of course, this revelation came to me after I fell into a TikTok rabbit hole so keep that lil fact in mind. aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/p/maybe-ai-s...

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Maybe AI Slop Is Actually Good?

It pollutes our social feeds but viral AI Slop is training a new generation on how to tell compelling stories with AI tools

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

there’s a McDonald’s in the pentagon

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aiforhumans.bsky.social @aiforhumans.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

New AI For Humans & Kevin is back! Today... -- Elon vs OpenAI (plus bonus GPT-5 news) -- The Paris AI summit & our new e/acc VP -- Pikadditions & Adobe Firefly Beta Demos And, unfortunately, more than ten seconds on AI feet. YT below and audio available EVERYWHERE.... youtu.be/U08zNhi_r3U?...

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Fight For The Future of AI: OpenAI vs Elon vs The World

YouTube video by AI For Humans

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This might be the greatest sports quote of my lifetime (now that I relate): Lebron James' response when asked what it meant that he joined Michael Jordan as the only NBA player to score 40 points after the age of 40...

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Talked with @barrons.com Jack Hough about AI. Lot of Deepseek but the stick around towards the end where we discuss the future of Hollywood and AI video. Little sneak in this of a talk I'm giving at NATPE next week... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5TK1... Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4hllIKu

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China's AI Breakthrough Rewrites the Script

Barron's Streetwise · Episode

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I get unreasonably mad every time I see a video of that guy who spins paint cans above a canvas. Not his fault. I’ll own this.

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Weird story but someone bought gavinpurcell dot com like 15 years ago and I never had a personal website... well, they let it expire and NOW I NEED YOUR HELP this is the most basic thing for now but I want you to help me make it better and by you i mean everyone (more below)

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Feeling deeply for a lot of people we know personally who lost their houses yesterday. It's insane to see how many homes are just gone. But whomever just sent out that alert to everyone in the entire city of LA... good lord. My Mom called me as the alert was going off still.

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

holy shit Kneecap on Netflix is incredible

aiforhumans.bsky.social @aiforhumans.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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It's a new AI For Humans! We give our 2025 predictions for the AI space as well as chat a bit more about OpenAI's's o3 model. Plus, bonus on the audio edition... we fed NotebookLM all our 2024 episodes to see how we did... and roast us. YT link 👇 and audio everywhere! youtu.be/47Lsa_Pu9zY?...

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Time for the Purcell family Xmas Eve tradition: Watching Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ classic holiday movie “Eurovision Song Contest”

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

nothing like feeling pretty good about the growth of your independent podcast and then hearing about another indie podcast that has like 10x the listeners lol

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

the drone story feels like the first real post-truth mainstream news story what I mean is that it feels like there is no truth that everyone will be satisfied by and it reaches across all different contingencies

aiforhumans.bsky.social @aiforhumans.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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NEW SHOW DAY... and good lord, what a week. - OpenAI shippin' like crazy - GoogleDeepMind also shippin' like crazy - Apple shippin' whatever genmojis are And we spend a LOT of time with Sora, love how it breaks and have some issues with it. YT link here & pod everywhere! youtu.be/TcTz96xlAj8?...

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

honestly & truly enjoying this Lindsay Lohan Xmas Netflix movie

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

the wine is the shield we wield on this blessed day

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

dear brands, next year, i don't need a thanksgiving email

aiforhumans.bsky.social @aiforhumans.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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NEW (EARLY) EPISODE! We break down the 3 BIGGEST AI TRENDS for 2025: - AI Agents! - Inference Compute! - The rise of AI Video & Audio! Plus, what to say about AI while passing turkey and answers to your top AI questions. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!🦃 (link👇)

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

one of the most special things about attending an nfl game in person is that if the home team wins, they open up all the exits and let all the fans go home. nothing like sleeping in your own bed

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

gladiator 2 missed its opportunity to be called monkey emperor

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So my favorite five games of the last five years are Stardew Valley, Disco Elysium, Slay The Spire, Baldur’s Gate 3 & Balatro. This prob says more about me than the games industry but… It also says something about the games industry.

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

whoa this is amazing company to be in… tysm

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

libraries were sacred spaces for me when growing up they're protective, insulating and honestly kind of magical

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

how about we do a social network *without* aggregation accounts? i'm pretty set on 'miracles of the universe' content

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

we need a name for this sort of content on the internet i mean i know it's an ad but it's like *special* kind of ad it shares some of the same qualities of late night infomericals

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I'm rewatching the first season of Altered Carbon in chunks (at the gym) and I kind of would like someone to re-make this... First season was *mostly* good, second season really lost its way and this entire world deserves more. i know this will never happen but look i just say things

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

the remaining cabinet appointees will be filled out, in bulk, based on tv ratings from the years 1993 to 2005

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

have to say my favorite part of bluesky is seeing all my old twitter friends pop up so many people i've weirdly missed in my feeds and didn't know it my threads algo was always around my IG handle which i never really used anyways, it's nice to be back...

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

just signal boosting this allsee is amazing and her game is very, very cool

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

i know not many people are here for this but my buddy @kevinp.bsky.social and I run a weekly podcast about AI stuff that is not just hype-beast-y but trying to talk about the impact on all of us humans we're now on bluesky as well bsky.app/profile/aifo...

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

BALATRO!! My favorite game in years and I’m thrilled to see it get recognition at @geoffkeighley.bsky.social’s Game Awards

Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I've spent the last 48 hours pouring over data from X/Twitter, Threads and BlueSky to determine how to boost engagement across all three platforms RIGHT NOW. Below you'll see how to unlock the magic of social media and specifically BlueSky is THE place to boost your numbers RIGHT NOW 1/???

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ok so it sounds like we doing this now huh

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

checking in here. want to see how this compares to threads now. feeling semi-lost in that i have no idea who is where now.

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Trying to decide if people are actually pouring in here again or what’s going on exactly. Are you here?

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 11/05/2023

Question: How much of BlueSky’s vibe is the fact that it’s just small still vs the people here? There’s likely a turning point on all social networks where it is gonna be rough going due to size.

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Gavin Purcell @gavinpurcell.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

Listening to the new @semaforben.bsky.social book on 2000s social media / news Traffic seems fitting while browsing Blue Sky. It’s good! But I can’t tell if I think that because I know like 50% of the people in it. Same as Blue Sky tbh. 😀