The cloud givith and the cloud taketh

Just switched to them. Would recommend so far.

You can also copyright the original character and make AI generate all the motions of that character. Since the originals was (human) created and copyrighted, it doesn’t matter that AI created art derived from that character isn’t copyrightable in of itself.

Plus there is also trademarks for character likeness.

All in all, I agree with you, this is a non issue for Hollywood studios.

This was more or less a reflection of my personal experience.

When I was in school, we were taught how to do research. It involves going to Libraries and looking for primary secondary and tertiary sources via the Dewey decimal system. We were taught how to use almanacs and even had an almanac competition on how fast someone can find information.

Public institutions such as the Library system in the United States, were our “temple” of knowledge. Public support for Libraries was historically VERY high.

However, since the popularization of search engines, it has radically reshaped our expectations of finding information. We expect to find it at our fingertip, in less than 200ms, at the cost of quality and gatekeeping institutions that filtered out a lot of junk knowledge.

I was able to find a few articles talking about this: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2477/2279

I especially love the quote, “Conflation of information retrieval with knowledge”

Sure, just do what California did via the CCPA and CPRA.

You can opt out of that party selling your data.

It 100% is more tax efficient and effective than going through the judicial system for every single warrant they want to execute. Can’t blame them for that.

I think the logic is more that if AI is inevitable, might as well be the first to make a shitload of money from it.

Or a fart in a blanket :)

Slap some 2D anime girl avatar on it and you got yourself a top grossing v-tuber.

Google search engine destroyed lots of jobs. I would even argue, from a US perspective, it even changed our relationship to institutions of knowledge curation (libraries, news papers, magazines)

We’re all just learning here, but yeah, that’s pretty interesting to learn about effective synthetic data used for training.

They still sell the Pixma Pro 100 line. It works with 3rd party ink still. Plenty of the printers on eBay for less than 200 as well.

My old canon printer is still going strong. 3rd party cartridges are very cheap.

Same

That’s a bit of a broad strike no? That’s like saying the invention of the modern computing is mostly a “hoax”, all they are capable of doing is adding numbers together faster than a human.

We already know we can transform certain problems that are computationally expensive to be solved by quantum computers. I’m sure more Algorithms can be developed to take advantage of that in the future as well.

We really need AI content label regulations.

Unfortunately the primary job of the CEO these days is more or less investor relations and relationship management between the C-staff. Can’t automate that quite yet.

What I never understood was why not tie API to Reddit premium. Such a simple thing and it would’ve converted a lot of users without all this fuss.

I think it will really depend on if there are 1 or 2 “killer” apps. For Smartphone, when it first came out (before Iphone, there were tons of pseudo-smartphones coming out of Japan/Korea for a decade), it was just some glorified mp3 player with basic internet and phone capabilities plus some calculators. It wasn’t until maps, navigations, and later, apps like lyft, uber, and Instagram, that really drove home the role of smartphones for the average consumer.

the US is a fractal scam. At every level, everything is an attempt to extract money from ill-informed “suckers”, from the running of the government, to the prices of supermarket groceries, to the tipping culture at restaurants, to even finding a place to put your car [1]. Every single thing is someone’s grift. In order to function in America, you need to be willing to be suckered to some extent. There’s no way around it. Unfairness is baked into every transaction, and increasingly more social interactions.

What a quote. I will add that “we” also like to believe we have the most fair system. And in many ways, the “gotchas” are much more hidden and systemic than other countries. For example, you might be scammed haggling with someone in Southeast Asia, but we get scammed everyday by credit card companies making bank on every single transactions.