atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t mean the Board doesn’t think that “the CEO stepping down” will make the company look better to the people they pissed off by shoehorning AI into everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably their Board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to be paying for extended support? My job is still on windows 10 (after they tried to upgrade to 11 and ended up having business applications not work as they should), but they are paying for extended support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why she’s being banned from criticizing the company? Like she signed a “non NDA” that included a clause about disparagement of the company, I get that, but I don’t really understand how that’s not a violation of her rights and therefore an invalidation of the contract.

  And on further reading it’s claimed that she hasn’t been forced to pay any damages for breach of that contract so how is she on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it that she can’t promote her book?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, let me get this straight. Spotify uses AI, is developing AI and is allowing (and possibly seeding the platform with) AI generated music.

  And the company [Spotify] is upset that the users are downloading their own data and putting in it trust in a collective for the purposes of selling it to an AI company to analyze?

  And Spotify made it part of their TOS that you have the right to download your own data as a user, but also made it part of the TOS that you can’t use the data you own to train AI (which only makes sense if you don’t own your data).

  Have I got this is right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  s3nd.pics is also a possible successor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the people who use Tik Tok don’t see this as a red flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What feed. Mm y Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That’s it. I don’t like… Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don’t have insta. Don’t have messenger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don’t get the “jailbait click bait” and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.

  I don’t watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it’s most definitely not “jailbait”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Let’s be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance’s ballsac. And it’s not like YouTube didn’t start out with short form videos. It’s just that they didn’t make it a separate video feed until 2020.

  I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don’t have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn’t a new phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that’s not what I’m saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That’s the part that shouldn’t have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the way this article is written. There are concepts that it tries to convey that have major caveats it glosses over. Additionally it posits some ideas for alternatives that aren’t new currencies and doesn’t explain how most of them would work. It also seems to ignore the fact that content creators very often get paid in ad revenue by the very same companies that are exacerbating this problem with their GenAI models, as well as companies that are being hit hard by the lack of actual ad generated revenue due to loss of clickthroughs and impressions.

  That being said it does actually somewhat explain a lot of the problem with the internet being sustained via ad revenue and ads.

  Several of the companies who’s business model is built around ad aggregation are either investing in or developing/have launched GenAI products that are in opposition with their current business model.

  They seem content at the moment to starve other places on the internet of the very ad revenue they rely on to make money. This will hurt them in the long run but they are focused on the short term profits they will make in the meantime and they do not seem concerned about the future so long as they can be seen to be on the cutting edge of the new technology.

  I don’t really know if this will lead to a downturn in creator made content. A lot of paid creators are so invested in that eco system that they’d rather hop from one service to the next forever than give it up and go get a 9-5.

  The pay as you crawl system is going to be difficult to implement, especially when crawlers already ignore the .txt file. The startups are not in a position to necessarily pay to license data and I question if they’d be able to pay as they crawl either. Meaning there will be big conglomerate gate keepers like Meta and Google and MS. The pay as you crawl system also only works if it’s regulated in some way so that normal users and small creators don’t get caught up in being victimized by bots/crawlers ignoring such rules or laws, with those victims unable to have their case taken seriously or heard at all.

  As for determining where the information came from and providing attribution. Most people still aren’t going to click through to those pages. This is in part because a lot of them don’t want to see ads in the first place (for security reasons and because ads are an imposition on their increasingly limited time, energy, and attention). It’s also because they already have the information they need. You don’t care if Wikipedia gets your ad revenue so long as you can prove you were right about Brad Pitt’s height or his first job to your friend you made that bet with at the bar last night.

  They say sources would be compensated. By who? And how? We have already established that people don’t think there’s a lot of value in pay for chatbots. The vast majority of Gen AI LLM users have shown (through polling, and introductory costs that go up in price later) that they aren’t interested in and don’t find value in pay for them. So conglomerates (many of whom run chatbots at a loss) would be on the hook both for paying for their crawlers and for providing such services to their consumers (corporate or not)? That most definitely not sustainable.

  The other option is licensing but a lot of data has already been crawled and continues to be crawled without licensing or compensation.

  I’m not sure that changing this business model will lead to anything good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re targeting actual creators rather than AI Slop though. Lots of creators have been talking about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I already have some issues with my public tone sounding… Too official. Using the em-dash just makes it seem like I might be a bot. I’m not going to bother with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s just parents falling for this or older people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. That no upvote rule. I’ve heard tell the corporate overlords don’t like Luigi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What “don’t upvote” rule?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rofl… Oh. They’re serious. Well. I’m that case. Rotflmfao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point the IT department where I work were asking questions about why I tether my phone to my work laptop when I’m out of the office (working from home). I told them very specifically that I would not connect any device I didn’t have administrator control over to my home network. They didn’t ask anymore questions after that. I have a work phone and work laptop for work things. I use both only for work things. I have two personal computers, and two personal phones (one for messing with roms). I don’t need their hardware for anything in my personal life. Nope. Not even a Google search.

  They also asked me if I wanted my personal phone logged into the wifi and I gave them serious side eye before saying no thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh the third hand, Google fomented the scam ads that then took over that they are now using their AI tool to solve, and it’s come very late to the table to do so. They shouldn’t have to rely on AI to clean up their mess. They should have been facilitating protocols to vet ads long before now. At best the AI might be faster, but those results will still more than likely need to be checked by people (at the very least, appeals will be, but perhaps most of these scam ad companies won’t try to appeal).

  With the use of AI to deny or approve healthcare insurance claims etc, this is exactly why we should be pushing for legislation that regulates AI. There’s too many people who are all “cats out of the bag” and not enough people going, we should be regulating this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech tariff exemptions are only temporary, according to Trump’s commerce secretary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sarcasm lost on you, or?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech tariff exemptions are only temporary, according to Trump’s commerce secretary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, did the market tumble again after he said this nonsense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting to see if the prices still go up, because between this and the fact that windows 10 support is ending in October, I’m sure these companies are still going to try to gouge people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know. This sounds like some shit Terry Pratchett wrote about in “Making Money”. Product is making money hand over fist, but never turns a profit so they sell it to themselves with its own money or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok ban loses momentum as fewer Americans view it as a security threat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of people who literally won’t look at their threat model and admit that this app could even potentially be a threat to them in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much will the uncomfortable truth of a former employee cost Meta?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The book has some pretty damning first person accounts of several times Meta broke national and international law. The main problem is that currently the US justice system has been castrated and the most egregious of the international law breaking happens in places that don’t have strong government to oppose them (Myanmar etc). This is just from what few excerpts I’ve found online surrounding the controversy of meta trying to silence the author.

  The fact is, meta’s money over everything modus operandi is what got us the current administration in the first place and they’re unlikely to face consequences from that administration as a result.