Travelers interested in booking a hotel room in New York City this summer might be shocked at the price now that 20% of the city's hotel rooms have been converted into shelters for illegal aliens and the homeless, draining the city's supply of available rooms and sending costs through the roof.According to a recent report from the New York Times, NYC has approximately 680 hotels. Of those, 135 have been turned into shelters.'Make sure that your asylum hearing is in New York. ... If you put your court hearing in Texas, you're gonna screw yourself over.'The city currently has 2,812 fewer hotel rooms than it had just before the COVID-related government shutdowns of 2020. That drop in supply has coincided with a sharp increase in demand now that tourists are returning to NYC at about pre-COVID levels. These economic changes combined with a significant decline in short-term Airbnb rentals has caused rental costs to soar. In the year after NYC began accommodating large influxes of illegal aliens, the average cost of a hotel room in NYC rose 8.5%, from $277.92 in 2022 to $301.61 in 2023.Many of these rooms are in hotels that were once frequented by middle-income tourists, and some believe that such tourists are likely to be hit the hardest by the changes."I really believe it’s enabled two-, two-and-a-half-star hotels to be a little more emboldened, to take advantage of the situation and charge prices that perhaps they wouldn’t otherwise be able to," said Sean Hennessey, a hotel industry adviser and clinical associate professor at New York University.Many of these hotels were in dire straits before swarms of illegal aliens began arriving in the city, and some have been significantly altered to accommodate migrants in particular. For example, the Roosevelt has since turned its lobby into a immigration processing center.Some will close their doors for good once the immigration crisis ends. "Some of them will not come back into the hotel industry, period," claimed Vijay Dandapani, president and CEO of he Hotel Association of New York City.NYC, a sanctuary city, legally obligated itself years ago to provide a bed for all migrants who show up within its limits. As such, it's now paying cooperating hotels at least $185 per room per night, even if a room remains unoccupied. The illegal alien and homeless guests who do occupy the rooms get to enjoy amenities such as "housekeeping every other day and fresh towels and linens at least once a week," the Times reported, citing sources.Carlos Arellano, who used to work at the Row NYC Hotel, which has since become a shelter, told Fox Business that these migrant guests have not taken care of the accommodations they've been given, agreeing with host Stuart Varney's suggestion that the hotels have been "trashed.""They're ruined. They're never going to be what they once were," he stated.Arellano also claimed that some of the hotels have been billing the city — and, by extension, the taxpayers — for luxuries such as "homeschool teachers" for migrant children whose parents don't want to send them to public school. "They find any little excuse to charge more money," he said.Arellano even suggested that illegal aliens are warned at the border to make their way to NYC, where they can take advantage of a legal system more sympathetic to their supposed plight. "I've been hearing when I've been down talking to migrants at the border [] that they ... coordinate," he said. "They tell each other: 'Make sure that your asylum hearing is in New York. Because in New York, there's judges who lean a certain way that will give you more time. If you put your court hearing in Texas, you're gonna screw yourself over.' So they tell each other: '[Have a court hearing] here in New York, claim your free hotel once you get there, and then come back to Texas. Because if you do it in Texas, it's not going to go well for you.'"Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Have you ever watched a TV show and wished you could make one yourself? Of course, making a wish like that come true is a lot easier said than done. There are a lot of moving parts involved in creating a TV show of any caliber. Now, though, Fable Studio wants to make that dream a little easier to obtain with the reveal of Showrunner AI, a new tool that lets anyone generate their very own TV series episode by episode. Showrunner is technically the world’s first AI-generated streaming service, and so far, it’s only available as part of a waitlist, which will eventually get you access to 10 animated shows created using the service. Users will be able to watch the episodes that have already been created, or they can use prompts to generate scenes that can then be stitched together to create full episodes they’ve essentially directed. Of course, the release of something like Showrunner AI is sure to spark the concerns that AI is going to replace us all, a sentiment that even the Godfather of AI has shared in some ways. But things aren't quite that dire, which is something we'll discuss a bit more in a moment. So far, Fable has revealed three of the series it’ll showcase. One is called Ikiru Shinu, and Fable calls the show dark horror anime. The other two include Sim Francisco, an anthology based in a city sharing the same name, which follows people living there. Then there is Exit Valley, which looks to be a satire based around Silicon Valley that was heavily inspired by Silicon Valley. https://vimeo.com/941632069/22ba55ff4e The release of this new AI tool isn’t entirely unexpected, of course. We’ve already seen a lot of really interesting and mind-blowing stuff from OpenAI’s Sora model. And Fable teased its AI video generation capabilities last year when it created an episode of South Park. If you paid any attention at all, the show really fell apart quite quickly, but as we’ve seen with each new ChatGPT release, AI is improving at a rapid rate. So, what does Showrunner AI mean for the future of human-created TV shows? Is this going to replace human creators? At the moment, it isn’t really going to change anything, let’s be honest here. Sure, AI tools like this have a sense of novelty to them that wows people at first, but AI isn’t quite capable of recreating that human creativity that makes real TV shows and other creative media worthwhile. There’s also the fact that all AI is trained on already existing content. It can’t think up new ideas on its own like humans can. So, sure, it might make things easier on one hand, and the tech could be really cool when it comes out for a full public release. But right now, it’s just another drop in the hat of somewhat promising but also somewhat gimmicky AI tools that we’ll have to wait to see how they really work after they’ve had some time to mature. Don't Miss: Insane video shows China’s rifle-toting robot dog opening fire The post This AI tool will let anyone generate their own TV shows appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $189 Apple Watch SE, $299 3D printer, $829 M2 MacBook Air, $300 GoPro HERO12 Black, more Best Apple deals for May 2024 Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $89 AirPods, $19 Roku, $307 Apple Watch S9, $500 off Husqvarna robot lawn mower, more

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