As much as I wish he would land in jail, I doubt that will be the actual outcome. I bet the republican talking heads know it too, but they can’t resist cashing in on the fear of it to fire up their bases.

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We won’t need guillotines if we can just make it trendy for billionaires to do dumb shit like this. 👍

Have they tried not using it? 🤦

Kagi’s FastGPT. It’s handy for quick answers to questions I’d normally punch in a search engine with the same ability to vet the sources.

I’ve used an LLM that provides references for most things it says, and it really ruined a lot of the magic when I saw the answer was basically copied verbatim from those sources with a little rewording to mash it together. I can’t imagine trusting an LLM that doesn’t do this now.

The reason is that Elon Musk got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

I bet the AI was tuned to select ads that maximize both profit and engagement for Meta over maximizing either profit or engagement for the advertiser. Totally working “as intended”.

I barely watch YouTube as it is. Sometimes I have to watch a tutorial or review that I can’t find information on elsewhere, but literally every time I wish it was a blog post instead.

Yeah that’s true, I was thinking more of consoles but I suppose Steam doesn’t really have any bearing on that market. I guess the better equivalent for PC would be DRM free games where it’s downloadable, and could be backed up to physical media (not provided). 😅

I think the direct parallel was Netflix. It used to be the only platform of it’s kind with an extensive catalog, so it was a far easier sell for people to sign up and stay subscribed. Even at it’s peak though, Netflix never managed to kill off physical media because there are still fans who want to own that disc of their favorite TV show or movie that they could watch anywhere, anytime. Then when other media companies wanted to grab their share of streaming revenue by clawing back their stuff from Netflix and setting up their own smaller catalogs, thinking they would get the same retention that Netflix achieved, instead people started to play the subscription hopping game. In the wake of this, sales of physical media are even seeing an increase too.

I feel like Steam comes close to being the “Netflix” of games because even though it’s not literally streaming games and doesn’t use a subscription model, it still has an extensive catalog and acts as an alternative to owning physical copies of games which comes with both benefits and drawbacks. I’m pretty sure that if publishers keep trying to claw their stuff away from Steam though, that we’ll see a similar uptick in people returning to buying physical copies as a result.

What’s funny to me is the streaming model for media already has shown this won’t work out well for gaming companies. When a new game drops people will sign up for a month, binge it, then cancel their subscription. They could try and trickle out DLC to get people to stay subscribed, but unless the DLC is significant people will probably just wait a while until a bunch of DLC is available then binge it again.

Personally I can only focus on one or maybe two major games at a time so I’d be happy to only pay a small monthly fee to one major game company at a time over paying for several $80 AAA titles a month.

What happened in the US could very easily happen here too. We’re not as immune from the misinformation as we think.

Well, even sociopaths can recognize that subsidies and tax cuts only go so far when the entire country becomes unstable and they definitely wouldn’t want to be under the thumb of an actual dictator.

I would like to show these copyright lawyers one of my original pieces of copyrighted art, then hide it and ask them to describe it in detail. Once they have done so, I’ll use the similarity between their description and my artwork to prove in court that they now have an illegal copy of my copyrighted work in their brain and I would that removed as per my rights. Slam dunk.

There are medications that measure the active ingredient as a percentage too, like topical creams. I think it’s done to make the relative strength easier to compare when the volume is varied. Labelling a keg of beer or a barrel of wine with the actual volume of alcohol it contains doesn’t make it easy to tell the amount that would be in a single glass.

Mill Street was bought out by Labatt in 2015, which is ultimately owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so now Mill Street is technically a Belgian owned brewery.

Mill Street was bought out by Labatt in 2015, which is ultimately owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, so now Mill Street is technically a Belgian owned brewery.

So capitalism is turning into communism except it’s the plutocrats that end up owning everything instead of the government? Neat.

Right, unless your business is a monopoly that maintains dominance because it can run at a loss since the parent company just shovels money into it that they earned in completely different markets.