Kalshi ran a series of Youtube videos last year that were deepfakes of athletes saying really outrageous stuff. It was hilarious. It was also deeply provocative and exploitative. It showed exactly who they are... people who will test the edge of decency.
But they have not bought everything available. The industry has. No one actor caused the shortage. OpenAI may be the largest single buyer, but they do not make up the majority of the buyers. There is competition for what they provide. So they are not even a sole provider.
If you use the same competitive basis for the public transport advocate analogy, your complaint seems to be that one of the advocates for public transport is building public transport. Not the only one, just one of many.
There is a high demand overall, it is costing people more. What solution do you propose?
I love the idea of different ways to access YouTube. We should be able to make a website like this that is essentially a meta channel around a topic. Great work
Ah, I like this idea. I also had a different thought of accessing YouTube content in the sense I wanted to know all the tech live streams happening today on a particular topic.
Yep, this is what we did. Both my kids are computer kids now and look down (nicely) on the "iPad kids".
The Amazon product is fine. It's really a question of how often they use it, and how early. I agree that any screens before 2 risks screwing up a human's idea of what's real.
The article is wrong. Adobe charged rent to create profit to send to shareholders. Paying engineers was not the major cost center other than that it needed to _seem_ like it was, to justify the subscription price.
Ultimately Photoshop as an idea stopped creatively evolving and Adobe created a tenuous pricing scheme that disincentivized competition, locked in users, and made most customers resentful. What this taught many of us is that this is a cautionary tale.
Mind you Adobe could have made CC free, built a healthy ecosystem around it, and created a lot of value in network effects, standards, plugins, etc. But they chose the dark path and they deserve to pay for it.
Current evidence is compelling us towards the shared opinion that AI is changing coding and nothing else… but do remember that AI itself is code and we are in an early
phase of recursive AI improvement.
We have no idea where this will take us but it’s like measuring the effects of COVID in 2020. The immediate outcomes (temporary unemployment, massive stimulus) created long waves that we are still encountering (inflation, global instability).
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