Opinionhaver
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- Comment on I would still download a car if I could. 🚗 2 days ago:
I think it’s a false assumption that these people wouldn’t be paying anyway. That’s just a narrative spread as a fact. It’s undeniable that film/game studios are losing money due to piracy. Some number of the people who pirate would be paying for it if piracy wasn’t an option.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 1 week ago:
You’re free to say “I hate all AI-generated content” - but the issue isn’t what you believe you hate, it’s whether you can know that what you hate is in fact AI-generated.
You don’t need 100% detection accuracy to hate some AI content. But if you claim to hate all AI content, then the reliability of your detection absolutely matters. Because if even one piece slipped by - and you didn’t hate it - your statement is no longer true.
And considering how much AI-generated content is already out there - usually unlabeled and increasingly indistinguishable - it’s statistically improbable that everything you’ve consumed and didn’t hate was human-made. You may feel confident about your preferences, but you’re arguing from certainty where none is possible. That’s not a logical stance - it’s ideological.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 1 week ago:
That would require you to be able to detect AI-generated content with 100% accuracy, which simply isn’t the case.
What you actually have is a prejudice - you dislike content when you suspect or find out it’s AI-generated. But there’s undoubtedly AI-generated content you’ve encountered without realizing, and likely didn’t mind. Just as there’s human-made content you dislike.
You don’t hate all AI-generated content. You hate the idea of AI-generated content. That reaction is ideological, not purely about quality.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 1 week ago:
You’re not really engaging with what I said. I’m not claiming everyone who listens enjoys it, just pointing out that some clearly do - and if enough people are voluntarily replaying it or adding it to playlists, then the “slop” label starts sounding more like prejudice than critique.
There’s always filler and mediocrity in any medium - human or AI. We just don’t call it “slop” when it’s made by a garage band or a beginner solo artist. That word feels like it’s doing extra work here - as if the low quality is inherent to all AI content independent of the end result. And that’s exactly the bias I’m pointing to.
You can say it’s “AI slop,” but if it passes for music some people want to listen to, then maybe it’s time to reevaluate what that label is even supposed to mean.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 1 week ago:
It’s not exactly “slop” if people are listening to it and presumably enjoying it. That just goes to show it’s not AI-generated content in general that people dislike - it’s bad AI-generated content. If the content is good, people are drawn to it regardless of who or what made it - as it should be.
- Comment on Tinder tests letting users set a 'height preference' 5 weeks ago:
Setting a height preference to 6ft filters out around 80% of potential partners if you’re in the U.S. Now imagine how many of the remaining 20% actually match the rest of your criteria. And on top of that, the tiny fraction of a person left after all the filtering still has to find you attractive.
If you want to date on hard mode — by all means.
- Comment on Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again 2 months ago:
The benefit of driving 15 year old cars is that stupid trends like touch screen controls go out of fashion 10 years before I even start considering buying a vehicle from that time period.
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 2 months ago:
There’s nothing wrong with the term itself. Many people just think it means something else than what it actually does.
Definitions for intelligence:
- The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
- the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
- the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
- the act of understanding
- the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
- It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Artificial just means were talking about something man made rather than a biological system.
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 2 months ago:
AI is a broad category that includes everything from image upscalers to music generators to chess engines - none of which have anything to do with surveillance. It’s a tool, not a conspiracy.
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 2 months ago:
But they don’t let you to entirely block them either but only to hide them for 30 days at a time.
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 2 months ago:
If a robot / LLM can do you your job they probably should. Factory jobs should be the first to go - that’s not a place for humans.
- Comment on YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions. 4 months ago:
When ever they finally manage to prevent the use of adblockers I’ll just buy premium and won’t even be mad. The only reason I’m not already paying is that adblocking is so easy. Considering how much I use YouTube (and how long I have used it for) it’s easily worth every dollar.
- Comment on YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions. 4 months ago:
Background play too. I’m not sure if it’s just a Samsung thing but the playback stops when I close the browser but I can then pull down the notification centre and the playback controls for YouTube are there. If I then click play it wont stop even if I close the display.
- Comment on Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching 4 months ago:
I kept usin Win7 way past after Microsoft stopped supporting. It was only when Steam stopped working that I switched to Linux. That’s just on my gaming PC though. My daily driver is running on outdated MacOS.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ feature calls businesses on your behalf to inquire about services, pricing. 5 months ago:
You don’t offer your services and prices easily
That’s a strange assumption. My pricing and services are listed on the flyer they likely first heard about me from, as well as on my website. You can also just call, email, or text and ask.
If you have a job for me but don’t want to “waste your time” by reaching out, I’m not too concerned about losing you as a customer. Virtually all of my previous clients seem to appreciate not just a job well done, but the one-on-one human connection as well. In fact, some of them seem to just want someone to talk to - the work itself feels almost secondary.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ feature calls businesses on your behalf to inquire about services, pricing. 5 months ago:
Not that I as a small bussines owner would expect anyone to use this to call me about my pricing or services but the call would end real quick when I realise I’m talking to an AI. I don’t even have anything against AI per se, I talk with LLMs a lot. It’s just that if you can be arsed to personally call me then I can’t be arsed to serve your needs either - I have more serious customers to cater to.