Fair point. It’s so sad to think about artists being poor to start with :-/

The things with AI is that it has yet to come for the poors…

That’s what makes us humans at least…

In Europe we have the AI act which, as of August, will introduce some form of transparency obligations. Not perfect obviously but a start. Probably will not be followed by the rest of the world though so like GDPR it will be forcibly eroded by other’s interests through lobbying but at least we try.

Uh? It’s a bit less generic than that… some activities of governments are excluded from the scope but not all data processing from government agencies are.

For example this particular personal data processing likely fits under the prevention of criminal offences and threats to public security and is highly unfortunate but let’s keep shit factual.

I’m 40 years into trying to become fluent-ish in Dutch and it’s going to need another lifetime to get there unfortunately. So English to Dutch ain’t much of a passerelle.

Back in the days it is said that our Dutch speaking neighbours had an « easier » time learning English because they didn’t had much in the way of local content. Whereas as a French speaker we have all dubbed so less pressure to get introduced early to English.

I find it super funny that you position French as easier than English. In what language are you native? From my anecdotal evidence discussing with a sizeable amount of foreigners French is among the most hated / difficult western language to learn. Possibly because of all the prononciation shenanigans, it’s not like in Dutch and English where sounds are somewhat logical.

Well what would be an easier language ? French? Dutch? Not German, that one looks atrocious. If it’s not relative then all foreign languages are hard to newcomers I guess. Personally I remember that learning enough English so I can somewhat communicate was quite easy because of the mass of available content to read / listen to / watch.

With some luck diabeties or aneurysm. He looks ripe for it.

Heyyyyy at least they failed fast :)

True for hackers… Somehow it started my career… but snow crash feels a bit like Uber-gig which isn’t what I would look forward to.

As a 80s kid I don’t recall being hyped. If anything all sci-fi books were warnings for us. Younger generations embraced the black mirror shit thought.

Nha boomers are not the cause for this shit. Smart ass marketeers and tech bro pushing for more precise target identification and thus more reach for them are to blame. And those I stumble upon are definitely on the younger side.

Nice :)

We’ll see this would be a use case for blockchain and such so that every participant in the flow gets it’s bit in exchange of the bytes they serve.

So that the isp doesn’t act like an even worse dpi point indeed.

I’m not saying it’s desirable. Just a fun thought experiment.

Just maybe this would be a way to finance content creators with more transparency and it would probably cut YouTube and the likes of it from their dominant position.

Clearly… imagine you have an allowance of say 100€ a month managed by ISPs and all of that would be spread across all used services based on usage. Internet services PAYU.

That would drive interesting changes in the landscape for sure.

And how retributions would be shared between the various layers and ecosystems.

Also would likely kill all new entrants and innovation. Plus some legit use cases for advertising (goodbye marketplace I guess?).

Yeah being European doesn’t mean someone will let go a good business opportunity… We’ll see others follow with similar increases unless the European stance on territoriality changes again.

Slop apologist because I argue that correctly using a tool to restructure pre-existing information I’m inputting under my oversight is risk free?

You crazy ass end-of-world lunatic…

As far as I know slop always presupposes generation of derivatives, not restructuring or manipulation. You argue out of your ass and that’s just a bad opinion.

Nha that’s just plain wrong…also you can also fantastically screw flying a plane but so long you use LLMs safely you’re golden.

It also has no will on its own; it is not « working against you ». Don’t give those apps a semblance of intent.

So is a speedometer and an altimeter until you reaaaaaaaaly need to understand them.

I mean it all boils down to proper tool with proper knowledge and ability. It’s slightly exacerbated by the apparent simplicity but if you look at it as a tool it’s no different.

If you can’t fly a plane chances are you’ll crash it. If you can’t use llms chances are you’ll get shit out of it… outcome of using a tool is directly correlated to one’s ability?

Sound logical enough to me.