Archive - Kevin Bankston's CONVERGER

CONVERGER #5: How to Copyright AI-Generated Works, From the Lawyer Who Did It for "Critterz"

Also: A24's Google Deal and Other Team-Ups Between Studios and AI Labs; Hollywood’s New Short Story Gold Rush

Jul 7 • Kevin Bankston

CONVERGER #4.5: The Anthropic Fable FUBAR

How the White House is Censoring Our AI Future

Jul 1 • Kevin Bankston

June 2026

CONVERGER #4: How I Got an AI-Generated TV Series Cancelled (Accidentally)

ALSO: ‘AI on the Lot’ Conference Takeaways, Tech Brother vs. Hollywood Brother, and the Last Edition of Hannah Einbinder’s Swirlie Watch!

Jun 11 • Kevin Bankston

May 2026

CONVERGER #3: The Cannes AI Vibe Shift

Also: mapping the microdrama megatrend, how I “engineered wonder" by making comic books, and more!

May 26 • Kevin Bankston

CONVERGER #2 — YouTube’s Chilling Crackdown on AI Creators

Also: AI labs hypocritically condemn everyone else's internet scraping; viral internet creators dominate horror cinema; Noah Hawley is the franchise…

May 7 • Kevin Bankston

April 2026

CONVERGER #1 — Super-Sized First Edition

Mapping the content singularity where all media collapse into one

Apr 21 • Kevin Bankston

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