Cardinal Scum: Lord Google! Our Premium service is only making 8.5 Billion net profit per year, a miserable increase of 25% from last year!
Lord Google: These peasant eyeballs have disappointed me. Force the plebians to ingest propaganda as in the olden times! And as for the so-called-Premium subs . . . we will crush their purchasing power!
If you're on Xitter, I don't know what to tell you. Except, get off.
Has no one made the standard "how to move to Mastodon and take all your twitter followers with you" yet? If they have I havent' seen it, but that's the missing link here.
It's the same situation, just writ large. Dumb human decisions to put AI where it shouldn't be. Heck, you can put it in charge of the nuclear missles now if you want to. Don't. Though. That'd be really, really stupid.
Part of my knee-jerk dislike of the AI hype is that it's glorified text completion. It doesn't know shit. It only knows the % chance of your saying the next word. AGI is not happening anytime soon and all this is techbro theatre for the sake of money.
Anyone who reads a wall of bland generated text and thinks we're about to talk to god is seriously mistaken.
Love it. I was wondering the other day when we'd see a return to "simple" games like pool. Can you imagine the graphics power of today's games applied to "just" pool? Instead of 1000 things exploding, you could have a true ambient scene that was ever-changing and create different locales etc. Someday?
YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts (www.androidauthority.com)
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood (themarkup.org)
Safety and Research were Sacrificed for Profit under Altman (www.theatlantic.com)
Article from The Atlantic, archive link: archive.ph/Vqjpr...
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)
Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number (www.theverge.com)
Not the best looking game ever, but very relaxing: Championship Pool (NES, 1993) (imgur.com)