No, the companies that already exist that want it do so for the same reason oil companies push to regulate refineries. It makes the barrier to entry much tougher for someone new. If they cared about it for environmental reasons they would never ad AI.

Yep, exactly.

It's popular for some of the cool kids to posture and kvetch about it right now, but no, normal people really don't care - as long as it's a good game.

To be honest, I didn't much care for movie going then either, lol. But the wait for some other method for any given movie was considerably longer.

Society itself has changed.

For the shared movie going experience in a theater to be enjoyable, that depends on most people following largely unwritten and unenforceable (except socially) rules. And we mostly don't have that anymore, as a society.

Ah, well, with a huge screen I imagine it might matter more, yeah :)

That's another thing I've never got into. Our living room and bedroom are small-ish, or medium-ish at most; I really can't imagine using a huge TV screen in them. I never really understood the whole "cover your wall with a TV screen" thing :D

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Some recipe sites also jumped into generative ai fairly quickly as well. Generative AI is great for recipes. A couple of years ago someone gathered lots of recipes for chocolate chip cookies, took the average in Excel, and won a chocolate chip cookie baking competition. This is essentially what generative ai does when generating recipes, and they are generally decent.

I worry this will result in a "This product may cause cancer in California" sort of outcome. Label it as AI just in case. I've already seen the AI tag on a few videos which were arguably edited only using conventional methods. One of them had only been sped up.

I was taught in university that of you were going to design something and it didn't look a bit like other solutions on the market, you better have good reasons and be able to explain yourself.

Similar to TV that way. Graphics are overblown.

When digital and hi-def TV came out, I was like "eh, seeing the actors' pores isn't going to improve anything. Good plots and characterization would." And so it is with games as well.

I'm not sure what age you think that is, but this semi-old guy won't be watching it because I don't want to. It's pointless and boring.

(And I'm not sure that I know of anyone, no matter how old, who "doesn't know how" to use YouTube.)

Try to make any ad hominem attack you want, but I'm right. Show me the success stories.

Paypal was never prohibited from becoming a bank. They remained not-a-bank because they believed it was a more profitable arrangement. They have now apparently changed their mind, and in my view they're many years late in that decision. Other startup financial services companies have been nipping at their heels harder and faster in the last couple years. Recent politics and are mentioned in the same story but it can not be concluded that these are directly related.

I've had fewer problems with PayPal than with any bank, lol. After decades of financial activity.