🍭 Fast Forecasts, Fewer Formulas ⛈️

Good morning! Today’s theme is: platforms enabling chaos for years and then acting shocked when it works too well.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• YouTube finally nukes the AI fake trailer empire

• A viral diet-planning prompt that builds meal plans with real schedules

• NOAA hands parts of global weather forecasting over to AI

Steal This Prompt
🥗 Custom Diet Plan That Doesn’t Hate Your Schedule

One prompt that spits out a personalized, balanced diet plan based on your goals, preferences (veg, low-carb, etc.), and lifestyle (busy / sedentary / active).

Use it to:

• “Lose X lbs in Y weeks” without living on sad chicken

• Get quick recipes if you tell it you’re slammed

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

2. Paste it into your model.

3. Replace the #s with your age, weight, target, timeframe, preferences, and lifestyle

4. Watch it cook (you’ll get a full plan that’s actually doable on a Tuesday)

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

YouTube
📼 Finally Kills the Fake Trailer Machine

The Bite:
YouTube has terminated two of the biggest fake movie trailer channels on the platform: Screen Culture and KH Studio.

Both channels built massive audiences by publishing AI-generated trailers that looked real, used studio IP, and were often mistaken for official releases.

YouTube says the channels violated policies around misleading content and impersonation.

The takedowns follow years of studios, fans, and creators complaining.
Meanwhile, the videos quietly racked up hundreds of millions of views.

Snacks:

• Screen Culture had over 1.3M subs and regularly pulled ~40M views

• Trailers used studio logos, actor likenesses, and official movie titles

• Many videos were labeled vaguely, making it hard to tell they weren’t real

• Studios like Disney and Warner Bros. raised concerns over brand confusion

• YouTube didn’t just demonetize, but fully removed the channels

Why it Bites:
Let’s be real.

Do you think these channels got shut down because YouTube discovered integrity?

These channels thrived because they worked.
They kept users clicking even though the content was misleading.

YouTube could’ve just turned off monetization. But no.
It waited until fake trailers became too visible, and too close to studio IP to ignore.

This is YouTube drawing a late line.
Around AI-generated media that impersonates reality well enough to fool people.

The platform helped build the slop factory.

Now it’s cleaning up after it…

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NOAA
⛈️ Hands the Weather Over to AI

The Bite:
A new generation of AI-driven global weather models has rolled out.
This marks a major shift in how forecasts are made.

It doesn’t rely on physics-heavy simulations that take hours to run.

Instead, these models learn patterns from decades of weather data;
And generate forecasts much faster.

The models already compete with and sometimes even match traditional systems.

It’s a big step toward AI becoming a core part of climate and weather prediction.

Snacks:

• Models forecast temperature, wind, and pressure on a global scale

• Model runs are much faster and cheaper than physics-based models

• Outputs can be generated in minutes instead of hours

• Designed to complement, not fully replace, existing systems

• NOAA plans to test them in live forecasting environments

Why it bites:
For decades, forecasting meant brute-force physics:
Massive equations, supercomputers, and long runtimes.

Now AI is saying: what if we learn the patterns instead?

That’s exciting! But still worth being skeptical. Why?

Weather isn’t text.

The atmosphere doesn’t politely follow rules.
And edge cases matter most when lives are on the line.

The real promise here isn’t perfect prediction.
It’s speed, scale, and earlier signals.

And also more room for humans to double-check the results.

Hope we won’t find out the hard way that physics still matters.

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

🎬 YouTube Terminates Popular Trailer Channels
→ YouTube shut down major channels making AI-generated fake movie trailers for misleading viewers.

🌪️ NOAA Deploys New AI-Driven Global Weather Models
→ NOAA launched faster, AI-powered global weather models to improve large-scale forecasting.

🫂 Many People Now Use AI for Emotional Support
→ A UK study found a significant share of adults use AI tools for emotional support or companionship.

🧠 OpenAI Evaluates Chain-of-Thought Monitorability
→ OpenAI released a framework to measure how inspectable and safe AI reasoning processes are.

📰 Why Journalism Still Matters in the AI Era
→ Journalism’s value is rising as AI increases demand for verified, accountable reporting.