AlteredEgo

There is really a purposeful ignorance to the whole fuckai movement. Like the OP article treats "AI is notorious for stealing from humans" as a settled argument, like if you don't agree with that statement it's a moral failing. There is no disagreements in their echo chambers any more, only good vs evil. But as we know, only a Sith deals in absolutes lol.

Or "a technology that’s being used to remove the human element from the process" yeah it - once it actually does look better and is more controllable - can drastically reduce how much human labor is needed.

But that argument has two sides, and thee author is basically making a pro-capitalism argument. Films and movies SHOULD belong to the capitalists, who control who can make movies and expensive entertainment, they get to control the narrative, and obviously anything that won't make money never sees daylight. Yeah it's nice that people work on movies, but it incredibly expensive.

If their argument was that we should build a socialist movie industry, with a separate institution with separate elections printing money to produce movies and art and the voters get to vote and influence what is being financed - yeah that would be nice. But who can even imagine some system today any more?

Instead we are already seeing plenty of amateurs making shitty AI movies and slop, but eventually the tools will get better and the best new directors will produce worthwhile art.

And the argument against is of course "no current AI is a dead end here someone said it over there, it won't get better, only slop!" and then they treat THAT as a settled argument and a moral failing to think we'll see progress. Do these people now have eyes to see? People struggle to tell if a scene is AI generated or not, but someone it's not good enough and a filmmaker saying "yeah cool" is worthy of being scolded?

Just the last months we've seen breakthroughs in computing hardware and in software with full 27b models compressed to "terniary" fitting on a smartphone. The AI bubble is grotesque and will pop. The advancements in AI models will remain.

All this hatred and rage should be directed against capitalism and the plutocrats, but it's being misdirected and turn out counterproductive.

The most straightforward AI policy we should push is to mandate AI metadata tags for images, video and text that must remain when editing. So you can immediately see a watermark or icon on an image or video in the browser. But do we hear this anywhere?

This should really be a critique of capitalism. The problem is that the plutocracy is very good at using your anger and rage against you.

"I just read this" in a review of someone very upset about requiring an account, while the signup server was offline over Christmas. I'm very sorry I came off so "confidently", I thought writing "I read this" is a reasonable indication that this is second hand knowledge not first hand. Hearsay in a court of public opinion you could say. I guess this confidence is just my natural charisma which is my undoing again lol

It might also be that this is only true for the regional distributor in my country. I suspect my country is the original inventor of enshittification.

You're welcome. Cunningham's Law is proven to work flawlessly again.

It's shocking that they just seem to sit out there in the open. Afaik they are very delicate and fragile machines.

If you're honestly asking, one thing I just read is that you need an account to use it. Not sure if that is a downside for many.

Yeah it has to be open weight and free to use for everybody, with regulation to tag all AI output as generated so we know what is what.

The worst outcome would be if somehow all open weight AI models that can't show their training data will be subject to some kind of tax or rent by AI / IP collection agencies, ultimately going to the plutocrats. That would be techno feudalism. Big corporations can afford to negotiate and pay license fees and often profit from cumbersome regulation too that prevents others from producing value. So the worst outcome is if we have robots doing all the work, and all the robot IP is owned by the techno-feudalists. And we can't even use robots to help with subsistence farming because we can't pay the expensive AI IP licenses.

It's a futile and stupid effort funded solely by Bloomberg: The destruction of 3D printing: Bloomberg is behind it - YouTube

This article is disgusting neoliberal disinformation because it hides this simple and easily provable fact. Probably frames it as a debate with pro and contra. But it's fundamentally moronic.

Ah thanks, hadn't heard of microG! Nice!

The speed of light in fiber optic cable is ~66% of what the speed of light in vacuum is (or radio signals in atmosphere). Signal first has to go up but then travels faster than in fiber optics cable and arrives faster. Hence faster ping.

Well with the new hollow optic fiber you would be right.

Average ping time between Europe and US is 100-150ms, which is high for e.g. gaming. Satellite constellations could cut that down by 33%. Which was a huge promised benefit of starlink, even just for HFT stock trading which is like cheating and mining gold.

But yeah with hollow optic fiber being able to do the same, much of the value of Starlink should be wiped out! SpaceX stock should take a massive nosedive lol!

Afaik you're wrong about overhead with atmosphere and dish.

The only value internet constellations now provide is universal coverage. But that could be achieved cheaper with a higher orbit of 2000 km instead of 500km. Coverage goes up to 12% instead of 3.6% so you need like 9 times (square) less satellites? I think? And the ping would be worse but still acceptable like 200ms between EU and US if you live somewhere off grid or on the ocean.

Well if that's what is holding up more hardware compatibility for open android.