For the slightest bit of defence: it makes sense. “Nepo baby” generally refers to some kid who doesn’t have the qualifications for their role but got it through their parents giving them an unfair chance.

But it makes perfect sense that if you grow up in a house with actors and writers for parents they can both teach you about the business, they’ll be happy to pay for that kind of education, and they’ll be super encouraging because unlike most families, to them becoming an actor or director is a perfectly reasonable goal.

It’s like a child of doctors growing up to become a doctor. On one hand their parents could have just pulled some strings, on the other hand, having parents excited to teach you organic chemistry and advanced math in middle school probably helps you a lot when it comes to qualifying for med school.

I don’t think all Hollywood nepo babies are like this. I’m just saying you would expect to see children of great actors become actors themselves.

The whole point of AI hate anyway is that there is physically no world in which this happens. Any LLM we have now, no matter how much power we give it, is incapable of abstract thought or especially self-interest. It’s just a larger and larger chatbot that would not be able to adapt to all of the systems it would have to infiltrate, let alone have the impetus to do so.

The great thing about this job is that you can cash 300k without doing anything because as soon as you hear the code word you just have to ignore it for 10 seconds and the world ends anyway.

So it’s a meme

“but some day I might! And then people like me better watch their step!”