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by saaaaaam 7d ago
I have no opinion on the content. Just that AI favours ponderously glib “mic drop” statements of this sort.
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by saaaaaam 7d ago
The original 404 media story this badly written vice article is click baiting with is better. https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-l...
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by saaaaaam 8d ago
To me the blog post feels as though AI has had significant input in the writing. Whether it's entirely AI written or AI ideated with some human input on the writing I don't know. So it's not really a surprise to see this sort
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by saaaaaam 9d ago
What a load of bullshit. The author can’t even get basic facts right. “When Daft Punk became robots around the turn of the millennium” Is 1993 really “around the turn of the millennium? It’s also worth recognising that this is written from
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by saaaaaam 13d ago
How weird. I reported this exact ad earlier today.
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by saaaaaam 16d ago
It’s West Wing coming true again. “Give me $200 and it’s done!” https://youtu.be/QMlp8BeBJgg
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by saaaaaam 16d ago
I didn’t say it was a perfect system. I often say, professionally, that the infrastructure around music rights and licensing is insanely complicated - and as you have personally experienced it can be very frustrating, confusing and dispirit
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
I don’t really know what you mean. But I’ll try to answer what I think you’re asking. YouTube is a directly negotiated licence - ie it doesn’t fall under any of the statutory blankets, and is licensed territory by territory. Most rights hol
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
I’m sure I read something about NEW SIRI somewhere. Siri isn’t just falling short, it seems to be getting actively and progressively more useless. My HomePod speakers take about 10 seconds to respond now and often get things wrong.
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
Does anyone use their phone “like an actual phone” anymore, as in held to their ear? Most people I see out and about are either using face time, or inexplicably speaking in speakerphone and holding the flat, face up, with the bottom of the
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
I know absolutely and very specifically what I’m talking about here, yes.
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
Knowledge diffusion was definitely crippled in the UK after 1710, and significantly restricted innovation. Most of the things that were invented after 1710 were pretty trivial. Things like the spinning jenny, the steam engine, water powered
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
Yes - sorry, I should have been more precise and said "in a licensed venue". One additional point, in response to your comment: public performance licences are for events or venues, not DJs. So if you are DJing in club, you are co
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
So actually, your remixed music you could play live, as a DJ. But to SELL it you’d need the permission of the songwriters and record labels, and probably agree some sort of split on the royalties. But is that actually so unreasonable, given
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by saaaaaam 17d ago
But what does “available on the market” mean? Let’s say I own the copyright to something of cultural significance. I make it “available on the market” but at a very high price. Or are you saying that the price would be enforced?
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by saaaaaam 18d ago
1. “Curated” implies human oversight but this is written by AI 2. “Work during internet blackout” implies “can communicate with others if the internet is blacked out” and yet your AI has a whole section about tools which “evade filtering on
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by saaaaaam 18d ago
Sorry, it was satire which doesn’t always come through in the written word, I wasn’t being serious :)
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by saaaaaam 19d ago
> I personally believe there are organizations in a Mr. Burns-type equilibrium[2]. Maybe, like Mr Burns, they are in that perfect but fragile state of dysfunction which somehow makes them deliver, for some definition of "deliver&quo
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by saaaaaam 19d ago
A bunch of things like Nuclear submarines (which I think still run on Windows NT?) and gas turbines and things I think. And then, presumably, their downstream supply chains and integration tooling and yadda yadda. Every time I am in a railw
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by saaaaaam 19d ago
But did they get any better at putting out fires by committee? Or are there still groups of Microsoft employees saying “I saw a fire extinguisher in Bob’s office the other day. He was using it as footrest. I told Magda to warn him about the
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by saaaaaam 19d ago
It’s from an email chain published as part of a 2007 lawsuit - so it looks like he did indeed say it.
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by saaaaaam 19d ago
But it didn’t. And Microsoft is worth $3.5 trillion. So maybe actually everyone should take a leaf out of the Microsoft book. When something is on fire, pass the buck to other people and stand around saying “that thing is on fire… wouldn’t
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
I guess the difference is the founding of the EU didn’t require multiple genocidal slaughters. Oh, wait.
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
Oh sweetheart. The real looney Eurocrats like us don’t even leave Strasbourg. Brussels is filthy.
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
OK! Your generalisation definitely beats mine.
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
I think you maybe missed my footnotes. Even if you did/did not, vernacular evolves. So at the time that you fervently hope the EU comes to its (clearly deserved, Mr Putin) end, I imagine people will be able to adapt their wrong speak a
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably. I’m not sure many people would include Russia in Europe in normal speech, unless they were a geographer in which case Russia is partly “Europe” in some cases I think. Even
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
Having a dog is one of the best things someone working in tech (in anything?) can do. It changed my life.
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
>Bots are welcome. Slop gets blocked. And yet the marketing copy is egregious AI slop.
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by saaaaaam 21d ago
I think the Gemini 3.8 Flash ones the other day were superior pelicans. Particularly the murderous one who was going to squish his tiny cousin. Interesting that terra xhigh effort is cycling right left, in opposition to the prevailing pelic

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