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by cm2012 10mo ago
Happy to provide. I will say that literally all these sources are already available in this HN thread, but its hard to find and many of the comments are down voted. So here you go: This link has a great overview of why generative AI is not
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Sure. There are many studies but here is one. Will Dobbie & Roland Fryer (NBER) This study uses regression-discontinuity around exam cutoffs at Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant. It finds increased rigor of coursework but lit
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by cm2012 10mo ago
But in the end a human takes the finished work and says yes, this matches what I intended to communicate. That is what is important.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
The data says this is not true. Quality of education has almost no effect on lifetime income outcomes when you control for initial test scores.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Do you feel the same about spellcheck?
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Its not possible to stop anymore than the Luddites could stop the industrial revolution in textiles.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Interestingly there was no push back in the prior thread on Rob's environmental claims. This leads me to believe most HNers took them at face value.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Astroturfing means a company is paying people to comment. No one in this entire thread was paid to comment.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Its because the post that spawned the thread was emotionally charged / low in real content.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
You are purposefully blinding yourself to facts you dont want to see because of ideology.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
This argument could be made for almost any technology.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Do you really think that the only reason people would be turned off by this post by Rob Pike is that they are being paid by big AI?
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Its not replacing humans any more than a toaster is. 99% of people used to work on farms, now its 1%. People will adapt.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
This is a great approach and article, I recommend it to those who asked me for sources
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by cm2012 10mo ago
I dont feel like putting together a study but just look up the energy/co2/environment cost to stream one hour of video. You will see it is an order of magnitude higher than other uses like AI. The European average is 56 grams of C
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Why is stout a higher quality than coca cola? Are they not just different? Its not like stout is an objectively superior product or something
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Per year, which is a big lift compared to them pressing play on Spotify
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by cm2012 10mo ago
That seems reasonable? Assume an artist (either directly or through a rights holder) makes 1/3 income from streaming, 1/3 from merch and physical albums, and 1/3 from live events. 40m streams per year would be 800k per week.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Helps train an algorithm to figure out which music is popular, as a training signal
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Spotify paid out ten billion dollars to artists in 2024. This is not small potatoes - total 2024 music industry merchandise sales was around $14b. Youtube also paid out literally 50x more to creators in 2024 than Patreon had total subscript
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Especially since they scraped Spotify's popularity rating as well
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by cm2012 10mo ago
This leak will also be really useful to bad actors who will resell the music from this list without paying royalties to the artists.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Everyone should just download all art, music and literature for free. Musicians, artists and writers can all make money some other way while I enjoy the works of their efforts.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Can you post your social security number and other personal info here then? You will still have it afterwards! Oh also, I don't see why I should ever pay for trains or movie tickets if there are seats available. I can just walk in! The
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by cm2012 10mo ago
No but the rip is a perfect tool for bad actors to profit from the music without paying licensing fees
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Downloading it all in bulk is different than personal usage. Its like ai companies hoovering up everything.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
At least pirates provide some value from curation usually. In this case the leak is just all of Spotify. It makes it really easy for a competitor to just duplicate the Spotify service without paying licensing fees. Tbd what happens.
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Ageee with you, this release is obviously a scummy thing to do. Same as if someone released every book on Kindle for free. There are rules. Project Gutenberg is great. They don't just steal every book they can. Not to mention the organ
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by cm2012 10mo ago
Yes but very hard to scrape in bulk from user accounts
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by cm2012 10mo ago
This would probably catch a lot of errors

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