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Gee whatever will we do without spies ^H^H^H^H^H^H students flying drones over our naval facilities and taking patents and trade secrets back home..

I don't know about Gerling personally, but the reason most high subscriber, high production value channels are on youtube is because that is where they can make MONEY.

A lot of the content creators don't want to also do the other sales activities effort that would be required to find sponsors, read their ad copy on the show, do the tax accounting for ad sales and accepting direct payments from multiple clients... etc. Youtube lets them produce content and makes monetizing it push button. That is hugely valuable.

It also solves the customer acquisition problem, you can get revenue from people watching 'ad-tier' YouTube while you court them for patron and similar subscription models, vs a tricky game of how much do I give away, is the free stuff stale, etc trying to do it without YouTube.

I am not trying to defend YouTube here, I am just pointing out why higher-production value content creators choose it. Even if the other social-video-on-demand platforms offer similar things they have not got the mind the mind share of viewers, which means less revenue from your content.

What is included in BNPL?

Does that include traditional credit cards? I would expect simple demographic trends to explain a lot of the shift. The little old ladies writing checks at the grocery store because that is how they always bought their groceries are aging out.

Hardly anyone carries cash any more so even small "pocket change" purchases done at grocery stores (stopped in for another half gallon of milk) probably are car purchases now, further skewing the numbers.

Maybe consumers are finally getting educated and learning debit cards are mostly just stupid? Use your credit card get better consumer protections and rewards of some kind however small in value..

I am not exactly shopping and the expensive upscale posh grocery operations. I certainly have not seen a 'lay away' counter at any of the local Food Lion stores. How does one even do BNPL other than a credit card at a grocery?

English has only descriptive not prescriptive dictionaries. So a word being in a dictionary is only documenting the fact that people use it, it does not really confer any legitimacy upon it outside games of scrabble.

Presence in the dictionary also does not itself indicate if the word is considered a vulgarity or offensive, though the dictionary might document if that is in fact the case.

That said industry chatter, isn't formal business communication and enshitification along with a lot of language we might consider low class in other context seems to be widely accepted and used. We also understood the message, to that end the communication is clear, and the format isn't distracting to most of the audience. That is really what makes its use correct.

Olsoc might not like it, but this the level of discourse the tech industry now uses.

I don't think that is really good analogy. Microsoft is more or less no longer in the Windows business; I don't think they could care less if you run Windows or pick your Linux flavor, just as long as it is an Azure workload.

It would be more like if Amazon bought some SaaS provider that had all their infrastructure on Azure PaaS offerings. I absolutely would expect as part of the transition a pretty rapid migration from Azure infrastructure to AWS, in that situation.

Yeah but these kind of releases are the corporate equivalent of clicking the 'care' button in facebook.

An empty performative social convention.

We are raising prices/eliminating popular offerings/charging for things that used to be included/etc but we just care so much about the customer experience trust us!

It is nonsense. We all know these choices boil down to "we want or perhaps require more revenue" it is what it is

Exactly and that is all this is here.

There is no-risk, what the federal legislature creates it can easily tacketh away, with another act/repeal bill.

What this does do is use supremacy to keep the states from jumping in and creating a confusing mess of different rules that takes an entire legal department to sort thru.

Of course that is the situation Anthropic wants, they don't want some other start up with a good idea being able to do anything to interesting, they want them bogged down in legal tangles so they can be acquired cheaply.

4/10 sure sounds like a lot but with exactly not idea what methodology was used to decide what sample cases to include in the report, is entirely meaningless.

See i don't think it should work that.

If I offer a service I should be governed EXCLUSIVELY by the laws in the place i am offering that service. That would be where my server is because that is where the activity is taking place.

If Germany has a problem with it or the EU does it should be their responsibility to restrict their citizens from using services, like mine where their laws are not followed, or outside their jurisdiction or whatever. More reasonably they should just educate their public, you better know where you actually are online because our rules don't apply everywhere.

Just like if operate a restaurant and you visit this country, I should have to comply with federal, state, and local health codes. Which might mean I CAN use some food additive that is banned in the EU. I don't have to make sure you are not an EU citizen before I serve you, I should not be burdened with that responsibility online either. The current system is STUPID.

The entire shield agreement and current system of jurisdiction around digital services needs to be tossed. It really is unworkable.

Addressing it at the design phase beyond, we need to be able to silo operations within national boarder and geofence users into their correct region is impossible because the rules of the road get changed often and often enough in pretty profound ways.

The international agreements need to be simplified to 'where the server is is the jurisdiction that applies'.

This could actually prove to be an interesting event. We have been here before of course but generally speaking legal holds and discovery are more narrow in scope than this or they have been.

If courts start to get in the habit of throwing words like 'all' around often in these types of orders and the appellate court holdings turn out to be that such behavior is acceptable, I expect we are going to see legislative action to stay the power of these courts pretty quickly.

Its not just the trillion dollar GenAI industry here that is put at risk, but any PAAS/SAAS provider business model.

Right the proposition here is that there should be 'good money in commercial art.'

What is technology really but application of knowledge to replace manual labor activities with capital assets.

Being anti-AI at this point is really just being anti-tech. Sorry that is what it boils down to, you can justify it anyway you want but the objection is really no different than a ferrier being upset with the development of rubber tires and the automobile.

Really this boils down to very fundamental questions about 'what is art' mixed with courts needing to elucidate on just exactly how much tokenization and reductive statistical modeling it takes before you are no longer copying but creating something that happens to be inspired by ...

As far as the artists go though, it does not matter. GenAI is going to dominate commercial arts. Even the AI guys ultimately have to pay the creators, it isn't like they wont find plenty of already public domain material and people no longer working more than willing to license stuff they already got paid for more cheaply than new people can afford to produce it.

If you are anything but a live performer, and are not either an A-lister, or established enough to have steady stream of residuals time to find a new career. That goes for actors, voice actors, illustrators, musicans, composers, choreographers, all of it.

I don't think a lot of people worry or think much about the law enforcement access angle. Most of the public does not imagine themselves commiting any crime anyone would take seriously enough to send samples off to a lab over.

I think far more people have experienced 'corporate surveillance' in some way that harms them. Think their homeowners policy going up because the laytex swimming pool shows up in a sat photo..

Auto insurers pushing the GPS monitors, or heard stories about sucking data out of the wrecks GPS to deny claims.

Then there was the big question about what would happen to the 23&me data would some insurance company buy it etc. For the part of the population that actually looks at their pay stub, health insurance is probably the biggest deduction. Sure it ended up not playing out that way exactly this time but does anyone think that won't be the case next time round. Even if medical insurance is restricted on how they use information on pre-existing conditions that does not mean others are. What if an auto insurer looked at your age and knew you had some genetic marker that suggested dementia in your future? I don't think there is anything that would stop them from pricing that enhanced risk in or deciding to not offer a policy at all same things for other coverage like umbrella.
 

I hope that true but I don't think it is. A big segment of the consumer market, just isn't very forward thinking. They don't have that old yankee ethic, and that isn't surprising corporate America and our keeping up with the Jones society has has been trying to beat that out of people/families for three generations.

A lot stuff isn't repairable because it cheaply done. Its faster an cheaper to glue stuff together than put it together with replaceable fasteners. If it needs to be somewhat water tight once again a little glue and bobs your uncle, if you make the thing so that it can come apart well now you probably need gasket material etc..

Same thing with components, that ribbon connector does not cost much but if you just solder the thing to the PCB, well you save assembly steps, avoid defects etc, it can reduce cost quite a bit.

Same thing sure you could use painted sheet metal that when damage could be patched, filled, and repainted. The kind of thing a guy could do in his garage with couple tack welds some bondo and few rattle cans, or you can slap some PVC up there and just expect people to bin the entire panel buy a entire new one for many hundreds of dollars. The car is cheaper today though, you can injection mold something cheaper than you can stamp steel, it does not have to be handled as carefully, and installs easier. Cheaper today..

That is the trouble with all this. I know there are outright repair hostile practices, I think they should be banned. I have encountered them. Replace the key-less entry door handle on your Chrysler for example, it will work fine; but the odomeeter will blink because the body module sees some reported serial number on the connected device has changed. You need to go to deal and pay them to create some new digital signature or like scheme of the connected devices to stop that. That does not a thing but lock individuals and independent shops out of being able to complete certain service jobs. I am not even talking about an after market component here, first party module and you can't swap it without this issue; that is major BS and it should be against the law.

So much of where we are though is just because of cost reduction to point of making everything disposable. Sadly enough consumers are going to go with the cheapest thing most of the time. I predict in 10 years time we are going see these laws repealed because "nobody repairs anything anyway." The truth is most stuff is not made to be worth fixing, even if the parts and instructions are offered and the intentional anti-repair measures are eliminated, you still looking at lots of time, not necessarily in expensive parts, to get a result that inst by any stretch 'good as new'. While exceptions for things like smart phones and cars might exist, I don't expect anyone is going fix a broken toaster.

or and hear me out on this.

You're a liar. You are re-posting the stuff because as you frequently point out it is a way to draw down mods away that your parent comments bullshit would normally win you.

You have spent an awful lot of time here talking about weaknesses in the mod system and suggesting people try to manipulate it. Perhaps you doth protest to much?