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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - but first, some context
1:59 - Rhett Reese’s take on Seedance
3:04 - is it over for us? who is “us”?
4:13 - this has happened before, let me explain
5:47 - why this AI moment might be different
6:36 - and the interesting part of this is…
7:40 - what people is getting wrong
9:10 - what this AI model could men for the future
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