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Broke: cure cancer, new physics, agi, take your jobs, what have you. Please give us a trillion. Woke: AI slop tictoc to waste millions of human-hours.

by piskov 1y ago

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eclipticplane 1y ago
> AI slop tictoc to waste millions of human-hours. Don't forget the power it consumes from an already overloaded grid [while actively turning off new renewable power sources], the fresh water data centers consume for cooling, and the noise pollution forced on low-income residents.
- amarcheschi 1y ago
  As a european, i don't know if it's more funny or sad that american citizens close tho data centers are effectively subsidizing ai for the rest of the world by paying more for their electricity since the datacenters are mostly there
noduerme 1y ago
You make a good point. They may well as admit at this point that curing cancer, new physics, and AGI aren't going to happen very soon. What surprises me a bit is that they'd take this TikTok route, rather than selling Sora as a very expensive storyboarding tool to film/tv studios, producers, etc. Why package it as an app for your neice to make viral videos that's bound to lose money with every click? Just sell it for $50k/hr of video to someone with deep pockets. Is it just a publicity stunt?
- measurablefunc 1y ago
  The query data they are collecting can be used for ad targeting. Remember, if you're not paying for it (and in many cases even when you are paying for it) then the data collected from your use of the application is going to be used by someone to make money one way or another. Google made billions from search queries & OpenAI has an even better query/profiling perspective on its users b/c they are providing all sorts of different modalities for interaction, that data is extremely valuable, analogous to how Google search queries (along w/ data from their other products) are extremely valuable to corporate marketing departments that are willing to pay a premium for access to Google's targeting algorithms.
- rsynnott 1y ago
  > What surprises me a bit is that they'd take this TikTok route, rather than selling Sora as a very expensive storyboarding tool to film/tv studios, producers, etc. Because it’s not good enough, I would assume. Hard to see it actually being useful in this role.
  - Ianjit 1y ago
    The TAM for TV/Film storyboard is probably way too small to justify the cost of training and infering these models.
rsynnott 1y ago
Well, yeah, but that stuff was all bullshit, whereas the fake tiktok kind of exists and might keep the all-important money taps on for another six months or so.
amarcheschi 1y ago
Almost as if the AGI talks were what a ceo would do to pump the hype of its company as much as possible

Broke: cure cancer, new physics, agi, take your jobs, what have you. Please give us a trillion. Woke: AI slop tictoc to waste millions of human-hours.

by piskov 1y ago

Broke: cure cancer, new physics, agi, take your jobs, what have you. Please give us a trillion. Woke: AI slop tictoc to waste millions of human-hours.

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eclipticplane 1y ago

> AI slop tictoc to waste millions of human-hours. Don't forget the power it consumes from an already overloaded grid [while actively turning off new renewable power sources], the fresh water data centers consume for cooling, and the noise pollution forced on low-income residents.

amarcheschi 1y ago
As a european, i don't know if it's more funny or sad that american citizens close tho data centers are effectively subsidizing ai for the rest of the world by paying more for their electricity since the datacenters are mostly there

noduerme 1y ago

You make a good point. They may well as admit at this point that curing cancer, new physics, and AGI aren't going to happen very soon. What surprises me a bit is that they'd take this TikTok route, rather than selling Sora as a very expensive storyboarding tool to film/tv studios, producers, etc. Why package it as an app for your neice to make viral videos that's bound to lose money with every click? Just sell it for $50k/hr of video to someone with deep pockets. Is it just a publicity stunt?

measurablefunc 1y ago
The query data they are collecting can be used for ad targeting. Remember, if you're not paying for it (and in many cases even when you are paying for it) then the data collected from your use of the application is going to be used by someone to make money one way or another. Google made billions from search queries & OpenAI has an even better query/profiling perspective on its users b/c they are providing all sorts of different modalities for interaction, that data is extremely valuable, analogous to how Google search queries (along w/ data from their other products) are extremely valuable to corporate marketing departments that are willing to pay a premium for access to Google's targeting algorithms.
rsynnott 1y ago
> What surprises me a bit is that they'd take this TikTok route, rather than selling Sora as a very expensive storyboarding tool to film/tv studios, producers, etc. Because it’s not good enough, I would assume. Hard to see it actually being useful in this role.
- Ianjit 1y ago
  The TAM for TV/Film storyboard is probably way too small to justify the cost of training and infering these models.

rsynnott 1y ago

Well, yeah, but that stuff was all bullshit, whereas the fake tiktok kind of exists and might keep the all-important money taps on for another six months or so.

amarcheschi 1y ago

Almost as if the AGI talks were what a ceo would do to pump the hype of its company as much as possible