Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”

A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”

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[–] 75 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far...

Is this written by an LLM? Because whenever I hear "it's not just this, it's that" now, I think LLM.

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  • [–] 26 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Nothing says, "I don't give a shit about you," like asking an LLM to respond for you. It's all just so over the giving top, it beggars belief.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago

    I was talking to this woman I was interested in. I related to her a mini existential crisis I was having because of climate change. She used AI to summarize why I shouldn't be so worried, and sent it to me. I just stared blankly at the obviously AI driven text for minutes before asking, "Did you... Did you come up with all that off the top of your head?"

    mind boggling.

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  • [–] 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

    I just don't believe any human would put out a statement with an em dash in 2026. It's the thing

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  • [–] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    i started using them because of ai. lol

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    My hyperbolic analogy is a swastika. Sure, the swastika had been in use for 10,000 years before Germany existed....but a company probably isn't putting one on their letter head in 2026.

    It's as iconic for AI slop as It's Not X, It's Y

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    to an untrained eye who hasn't read anything but internet posts, sure, but people use them in other places and that still carries on into internet prose sometimes.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Wow, what a douche way to insult someone. You think you have to be terminally online to be aware of the two biggest signs that text is from an LLM?

    It's not the 2010s anymore, we've had LLMs posting slop for years now. Use your favorite search engine and tell me what the top result says. Probably the same as the Wikipedia page. Search your work email, there's a good chance you got the same tips from HR.

    Knowing what it looks like isn't as niche as you're implying. And in the context of a public statement from a media company, an em dash SHOULD raise an eyebrow in 2026. Unless you think a human wrote this.

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