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It is incredibly cheap and easy to artificially bump a post to the top of a decent sized subreddit. I’ve seen it done before and the cost per impression/click puts most advertising to shame. And this was being done unsophisticatedly by some dude and a cheap bot. Now imagine what major corporations can do with all the resources to burn.

I have a hard time seeing why the average person should have a zero to 60 in the sub 6 second range. People fucking suck at driving.

They should go check out the Titanic first

The availability of Tizen apps is abysmal

Lotta manufacturers have done that. I had an Android phone back in the day that was notorious for false positives on the moisture detectors. The phone was a piece of shit and a lot of people wrongly got denied on warranty claims because of supposed moisture.

I don’t have one anymore but even if I did I wouldn’t use it. Much prefer wireless.

Yeah most people won’t notice much of a difference past 1gbps for now. A lot of the infrastructure hasn’t caught up yet and a lot of people don’t even have fast enough WIFI routers yet.

I upgraded from something like 200mbps to 1gbps a while back in my last place and I verified I had 1gbps but my download speeds even directly over ethernet were not much if at all faster from the sorts of places I typically download from. Like you said a lot of sites throttle.

Can’t even get those speeds where I live. The fastest I see available is 1gbps down/100 Mbps up and this is a decent sized European city.

Lol no shit it was gonna stop working. Dunno why anybody thought otherwise.

I think the big problem is the duration of copyright. That it’s so much longer than patents is pretty hard to logically defend.

Yeah the app is bloated as shit

I use sheets in Firefox literally every day.

Doubt

Yeah we’ve just cut back our consumption a lot and what we do watch is a lot more intentional and not just riding the algo for hours. And what we do watch now is done via JDownoader > Plex for the most part.

Ya sure got me there! Congrats

Yeah I feel like it must have really done a number on the field of translation. Also voice over work at the low to mid budget is probably done for with what those voice AI models can do now. It’s a sad state of affairs and it’s disheartening to see so many people cheer it on without caveats.

Yeah for sure. Mostly indirectly. I know a few people in my line of work who lost jobs because the client decided to just use AI to generate something.

I’ve also seen a number of examples of publications using AI images for editorial pieces which absolutely used to be paying jobs. For example this Atlantic article on Alex Jones. An actual person would have been paid to do a piece like this before AI came around.

And also there was the San Francisco ballet that did a bunch of their Nutcracker promo campaign art with AI stuff last year. They had traditionally used artists and photographers for years to do key pieces for their promo materials.

And as far as I am personally concerned, I’ve seen a marked slump in the volume of work inquiries I’ve been getting in the last year. I’ve been fortunate enough to remain fully booked and in the past just had to turn down a lot of work, but right now I’m getting about half as many inbound inquiries as I would have even a year ago. Hard to pin that on any one thing but I am sure AI is a factor. I’d be lying if I said that there haven’t been a number of my jobs over the years that couldn’t have been done with one of these AI models and a little trial and error.

I’ve also had a few clients now send me Midjourney stuff and basically want me to replicate it but make it work for whatever thing it was they were needing artwork for. So right there, that’s all the fun problem solving and artistic exploration out the window and it’s basically a case of “fix the robot’s thing.” It’s pretty depressing.

I’d be mostly fine with the robots doing away with all of our jobs if it meant we were heading into some post-work utopia where we got to just spend time doing the things that really matter to us, but that’s almost definitely not where this is going. All the windfalls will go to the top, the jobs will be less interesting, and wages will be depressed.

Yeah that’s pretty consistent with my expectations. A lot of work will transition into fixing the robots mistakes. So we’d be ceding the interesting, more creatively challenging aspects of our jobs to AIs and turning into data janitors. And that would only last as long as we’d be necessary. They’d hammer out the details making that janitor work eventually disappear.

I do design and illustration and it’d kind of be like telling me “Well we don’t need you to illustrate this stuff anymore, but Midjourney still draws shitty hands with too many fingers. So your job now is to fix those hands.” That is not what I came here to do and that does not provide the fulfillment I seek from a line of work. And following that analogy, Midjourney will eventually make flawless hands and I’d be out of a job.

Fortunately right now AI cannot hit a specific design/illustration brief to the consistent standards my projects require, nor iterate on a project based on specific and vague client feedback. So I still have work for now, but I see the writing on the wall. I’m always surprised other people don’t see that writing too.

This whole thing is going to make an insane chasm of the wealth equality divide we already have.

Learn to have a discussion with people without being a dickhead about it.

Yeah I just found this out and sure enough it works.