In this case, Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI, so they’re the ones subsidizing it. They can also offer at-cost hosting and in-roads into enterprise sales. Probably a better deal at this point than VC cash.
I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…
This is sad but understandable. Authors, most of whom don’t make enough money to call it a career, are being kicked from every side. In just the last handful of years, you have AI companies training on their works, companies demonstrating they’re open to replacing writers with AI, the Internet Archive giving their books away for free, states trying to ban more and more books, etc. When you’re kicked enough, everything looks like a threat.
Similar to music, I imagine there’s going to need to be some shift in the industry but I don’t think we’ve seen what that is yet. Patreon, physical merch, and live performances just don’t seem to work as well for authors as they do for musicians.
That being said, this particular site is clearly fair use and I’m surprised AI was even mentioned anywhere in the conversation.
So, I’m sure we all know about the WEI thing at this point, which is bad and weird enough; and also the sudden move to block ad-blockers on YouTube. I don’t know how that’s going to work out, but it’s pretty irritating. Not to mention, going to the gym, coming home, and suddenly getting loads of fitness-related ads piled...
Now I’m hearing that YouTube is now increasing its price per month for premium by a whopping two bucks, to $13.99. That’s as much as Netflix. So I can be ad-free on freakin’ YouTube, with contented created basically for them, for the same price as a network that actually takes responsibility for its shows.
To be fair, that $13.99 also includes a Spotify clone ($10.99/month) Should they separate the two and only charge $3 for ad free YouTube? Absolutely.
Oh no, not at all. They’ll probably do the Amazon Prime route and bundle as much as possible in one high fee. See Google One getting a VPN stuck in it recently.
When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by...
ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day (www.firstpost.com)
Repost from HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37109394
Escape Simulator gets official Portal DLC (www.pcgamer.com)
The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool (www.techdirt.com)
I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…
Is Google having a total breakdown right now???
So, I’m sure we all know about the WEI thing at this point, which is bad and weird enough; and also the sudden move to block ad-blockers on YouTube. I don’t know how that’s going to work out, but it’s pretty irritating. Not to mention, going to the gym, coming home, and suddenly getting loads of fitness-related ads piled...
Your thoughts on The Orville? (lemmy.world)
When I first started this show I found it to be a really awkward mix of comedy and seriousness. It had some jokes thrown it at the most inopportune times as some kind of comic relief from a really serious situation. Perhaps the first half of the first season was actually a bit rough or maybe the show just grew on me, but by...