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If any engineers think that's what they're doing they should be fired. More likely it's product managers who barely know what's going on in their departments ex
by plorg 10mo ago
If any engineers think that's what they're doing they should be fired. More likely it's product managers who barely know what's going on in their departments except that there's a word "AI" pinging around that's good for their KPIs and keeps them from getting fired.
- echelon 10mo ago[flagged]
- asveikau 10mo agoVideos are expensive to store, but generative AI is expensive to run. That will cost them more than storage allegedly saved. To solve this problem of adding compute heavy processing to serving videos, they will need to cache the output of the AI, which uses up the storage you say they are saving.
- echelon 10mo agohttps://c3-neural-compression.github.io/ https://c3-neural-compression.github.io/ Google has already matched H.266. And this was over a year ago. They've probably developed some really good models for this and are silently testing how people perceive them.
- hatmanstack 10mo agoIf you want insight into why they haven't deleted "old garbage" you might try, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff. Pretty enlightening.
- echelon 10mo agoI'm pretty sure those 12 year olds uploading 24 hour long Sonic YouTube poops aren't creating value.
- theendisney 10mo ago1000 years from now those will be very important. A bit like we are now wondering what horrible food average/poor people ate 1000 years ago.
- sgerenser 10mo agoI’m afraid to search… what exactly is a “24 hour long sonic Youtube poop?”
- echelon 10mo agoIt's safe for work (usually), just silly kid nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Poop Examples: https://youtu.be/XyuHSjXo2Nk https://youtu.be/XyuHSjXo2Nk https://youtu.be/wUmretPQAHo https://youtu.be/wUmretPQAHo https://youtu.be/JD3L9h45fOs https://youtu.be/JD3L9h45fOs https://youtu.be/Hn0QvVgmMaQ https://youtu.be/Hn0QvVgmMaQ