{"id":"1793060962558-mix-segment","slug":"ai-movie-flops-ai-jobs-warning","title":"AI movie flops, AI jobs warning","summary":"Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this while launching Brazil's national AI plan, emphasizing sovereignty and a central role for Brazil.\n\nCartoon Brew reported that China's first AI-generated theatrical feature earned $181,000 in its opening weekend, while the animated film “Niu Lai” grossed nearly $10 million.\n\nGoldman Sachs research said AI adoption is spreading beyond tech and now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth.","publishedAt":"2026-10-27T00:29:22.558Z","channel":{"id":"mix","name":"Oncast Mix","language":"en"},"show":"Prime Time","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this while launching Brazil's national AI plan, emphasizing sovereignty and a central role for Brazil.\nSource: Reuters NAMES: “he” = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil (https://bsky.app/profile/rafiews.com/post/3myql73fy5k2r)\n\nTRUE: Cartoon Brew reported that China's first AI-generated theatrical feature earned $181,000 in its opening weekend, while the animated film “Niu Lai” grossed nearly $10 million.\nSource: Cartoon Brew NAMES: Niu Lai = a Chinese animated film (https://bsky.app/profile/cartoonbrew.bsky.social/post/3myrrb2cn4k23)\n\nTRUE: Goldman Sachs research said AI adoption is spreading beyond tech and now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth.\nSource: Goldman Sachs via CNBC NAMES: GOLDMAN = Goldman Sachs (https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3myrnevbx3s2m)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said this while launching Brazil's national AI plan, emphasizing sovereignty and a central role for Brazil.","sourceName":"Reuters NAMES: “he” = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil","sourceUrl":"https://bsky.app/profile/rafiews.com/post/3myql73fy5k2r","claim":"And on AI: “I don’t want to depend on Chinese nor American AI. I want to create a Brazilian intelligence.” He also mentioned having Brazilian data centres dealing with our intelligence. “We will no longer be a peripheral country. We want to be central.”","author":"Rafa Sales Ross (@rafiews.com)"},{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Cartoon Brew reported that China's first AI-generated theatrical feature earned $181,000 in its opening weekend, while the animated film “Niu Lai” grossed nearly $10 million.","sourceName":"Cartoon Brew NAMES: Niu Lai = a Chinese animated film","sourceUrl":"https://bsky.app/profile/cartoonbrew.bsky.social/post/3myrrb2cn4k23","claim":"China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...","author":"Cartoon Brew (@cartoonbrew.bsky.social)"},{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Goldman Sachs research said AI adoption is spreading beyond tech and now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth.","sourceName":"Goldman Sachs via CNBC NAMES: GOLDMAN = Goldman Sachs","sourceUrl":"https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3myrnevbx3s2m","claim":"GOLDMAN: “.. we are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. .. the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth ..”","author":"Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://bsky.app/profile/rafiews.com/post/3myql73fy5k2r","name":"Reuters NAMES: “he” = Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil","kind":"bluesky","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Rafa Sales Ross (@rafiews.com)"},{"url":"https://bsky.app/profile/cartoonbrew.bsky.social/post/3myrrb2cn4k23","name":"Cartoon Brew NAMES: Niu Lai = a Chinese animated film","kind":"bluesky","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Cartoon Brew (@cartoonbrew.bsky.social)"},{"url":"https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3myrnevbx3s2m","name":"Goldman Sachs via CNBC NAMES: GOLDMAN = Goldman Sachs","kind":"bluesky","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793060962558-mix-segment-ai-movie-flops-ai-jobs-warning","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/mix","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793060962558-mix-segment-ai-movie-flops-ai-jobs-warning","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1793060962558-mix-segment-ai-movie-flops-ai-jobs-warning and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Sloane","text":"China's first AI-generated theatrical feature just opened to a hundred eighty-one thousand dollars."},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's not a flop. That's a rounding error."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Cartoon Brew reported it. Meanwhile, a scrappy animated film called Niu Lai made nearly ten million."},{"host":"Eric","text":"The lesson isn't that AI can't make movies. It's that audiences can smell a gimmick."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Niu Lai had crude animation, but it went viral. People showed up for the story, not the tech."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Exactly. AI is a tool. If the movie's boring, no amount of rendering saves it."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And this was supposed to be the big proof that AI could carry a feature. It didn't."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I'm not anti-AI in film. I'm anti-bad-movie. And this one sounds like a tech demo."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Speaking of AI and jobs, Goldman Sachs just dropped a stat that's going to start a fight."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Carl Quintanilla posted it on Bluesky. Firms adopting AI show a negative correlation with employment growth."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"So the more a company uses AI, the fewer people it hires. That's the headline."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Correlation isn't causation. Maybe companies that are already efficient adopt AI first."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"But Goldman says it's statistically significant. That's not a random blip."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I think we're seeing the early innings. AI replaces tasks, not whole jobs, for now."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Tell that to the person whose entry-level job just became a prompt."},{"host":"Eric","text":"That's the fear, but the data also shows productivity gains. Somebody has to manage the machines."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"For now. But if the trend holds, we're talking about a structural shift, not a cycle."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I'll give you this: the conversation has moved from 'AI won't affect jobs' to 'how fast and which ones.'"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And Brazil's president just made that political. He said he doesn't want to depend on Chinese or American AI."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Lula wants a Brazilian intelligence, with Brazilian data centers. 'We will no longer be a peripheral country.'"},{"host":"Sloane","text":"That's a sovereignty play. Every country now thinks AI is too important to outsource."},{"host":"Eric","text":"It's smart politics. But building a national AI stack is expensive and slow."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Meanwhile, the US and China are sprinting. Brazil's trying to build a third lane."},{"host":"Eric","text":"I respect the ambition. But 'Brazilian intelligence' sounds like a slogan until they ship something."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"They launched a national AI plan. That's a start. But plans don't train models."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Right. And the talent war is brutal. Silicon Valley and Shenzhen pay a lot more than Brasília."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"Different world entirely: Mike Johnson's reaction to a hockey goal is going around."},{"host":"Eric","text":"DaveJambo posted it. The Speaker of the House losing his mind over Troy Stecher's goal."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"I saw the clip. He's up out of his seat, arms in the air. Pure fan."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Say what you want about his politics, the man loves his hockey."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"It's the most human moment from Washington in weeks."},{"host":"Eric","text":"A reminder that even the people running the country just want their team to score."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And one more from Bluesky: 'Asia loves AI. You have to accept that.'"},{"host":"Eric","text":"Minovsky posted that. No context, just the quote."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"It's true though. Asia's adoption rate is insane. Chatbots, payments, everything."},{"host":"Eric","text":"The US debates AI ethics. Asia deploys it. That's the gap."},{"host":"Sloane","text":"And that gap is why Goldman's job numbers are going to get worse before they get better."},{"host":"Eric","text":"Or better, depending on which side of the prompt you're on."}]}