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Comment Re:Death of Clickbait Journalism is A Good Thing (Score 1) 132

> Death of Clickbait Journalism is A Good Thing

if only it would impact those sites, but nope, it impacts everything, click through rate is abysmal for any and all sites. AI summaries top of the search results for any subject. Google for "search" is worthless, but majority will happily accept the AI summary and never look further.

How is that a long term smart move?? google is biting the hand that feeds it: content creators. If you want to ensure people actually find your site, you will have to start... blocking google bot? Cause you gain nothing from publishing any content and having it made "searchable" through google. Nobody will ever visit your site. Your content will just get slurped up by the bot and integrated in the RAG for their LLM.

And if everybody starts blocking google, their LLM will provide outdated stuff in less a few years.

so what... we put everything behind paywalls to help recover any lost revenue ?
This move by major AI companies to never mention sources & links is just horrible. Horrible for trust in the output of the LLM, horrible for those whose content was blatantly copied and used for LLM model training

Comment Re:The CGI revolutiojn (Score 1) 50

> I haven't seen a decent movie since the end of the 90s

that's you stopped watching movies ofc


a few post 90s movies that more than "decent"
The Dark Knight, The Lord of the Rings, Inception, City of God,Spirited Away,The Pianist,Gladiator,Parasite,The Departed,Whiplash,The Prestige,The Intouchables,Django Unchained, Dune P1/P2, Memento, WALLE,Inglourious Basterds,Coco,Oldboy,...

but yes, since the CGI "revolution" zero decent movies.
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Comment playbooks, spitball ideas (Score 1) 61

to make playbooks, spitball ideas and transfer them from static images to demo reels would indeed be a cool idea to use these tools to quickly get something out there to see if there is Animo for a concept. If it helps them realize quicker those ideas that can spark, and those that cannot, I'm all for it. but alas, their goal will ultimately be cost cutting with zero revenue sharing

Comment productive vs capitalism (Score 1) 167

the increases in productivity should have caused less time to deliver the same quality/quantity of products required, thereby reducing the amount of hours/week working is required by humans. However for all the "good" capitalism has done, by pushing the "more money per week" narrative, and the fact those that stand to gain the most from these increased profits are not properly taxed... has made capitalism basically the cause for all these "job losses" to increased tools for productivity. Instead of seeing as a way for humanity to grow as a whole.


sad.

Comment Re:WFH *is* often a hit on productivity, but.. (Score 1) 125

>I work from home.
> I value the chance to do that, and do it conscientiously, and work a bit more than paid hours to be sure I am being fair.
> Even so, I am sure I am not quite as productive as if I was in the office, working the same hours.
> *But that is a hit my employer is willing to accept.*

please let this reply not be the one being read and accepted as truth, the only truth.

I work home home
I value the chance to do that, and do it conscientiously, and work the paid hours to be sure I am being fair.
I am sure I am more productive as if I was in the office, working the same hours.
*"""that is a hit my employer is willing to accept"""".*

Comment Re:that's why there is a robots.txt (Score 1) 78

> Show me where bots are ignoring it, then it's an actionable story.

I see plenty of traffic indexing and downloading the sites with bad user agents, thousands of hits, ignoring any robots.txt or disallowed tags; so there are enough bad actors out there and this will only increase as everybody wants to crawl and build/train their "bots" for "AI" purposes

Comment Re:Reminds me of an Aesop's fable (Score 1) 42

> Headquarters Warsaw, Poland


> Poland has been a member of the European Union since 1 May 2004 under the Accession Treaty signed in Athens on 16 April 2003. As a member state, Poland has the power to influence EU decisions. The European Union is an economic and political union between 27 EU countries that together cover much of the continent.


Gog is already in Europe...

Remember when archive.com was forced to remove contents, stop linking, stop... archiving? wonder where they are located. One guess...

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