Upvoted for a different perspective, but I suspect it ends in the same place.

OpenAI is kept solvent by investor capital, and capital is kept flowing by the perception of OpenAI being the market leader. Seedance being a better model, enough to cause OpenAI to exit the market, still ruptures the perception of value. In a market with no clear profitability path, that’s ground falling away.

It also can’t be simply commoditized because generations (I’m sure even Seedance) are expensive and still not good enough for production use, even if 50% of their consumer base might boycott if a major studio even did use it in production. Commoditization can’t occur when there’s still no economically self-sustaining, market-acceptable “good enough” product. Without that, even if the leader changes, it’s a race between lemmings (sorry) off the cliff.

OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision.

That is the strongest indication this is the beginning of the end for the AI bubble. Sora burned a ton of processing power, with no clear value proposition, just to keep the hype cycle going a little longer. Shutting down without explanation leaves the most likely one: they are out of helium to pump into the balloon. And if that balloon isn’t inflating, it’s deflating.

I just checked and civil statute of limitations is five years. Criminal six. There’s hope at least, even if I’m similarly cynical.

I really hope there are people left keeping track of these things, is the only thing. By noon there will be something else awful, by design, that makes us all forget about this.

Not sure why. I just tried them and they work both in the US and via a Sweden VPN. I’m not sure if they’re geolocked, but I can view them.

They’re in multiple parts but seem all here at least:

https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSite/videos

It’s incredible how every day in this country continues to be unimaginably dumber than the last.

“Well, guess we have to hire 33,000 more ICE agents!”

Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman, responded to the ruling in a statement posted to social media, saying the department planned to challenge the order.

“We disagree with the decision and are pursuing an immediate appeal,” he said.

Their first step in the appeal will be to seek a stay of the district court order. And they probably will get it, making this an illusory victory. To recap:

• Step 1: Enact illegal rule/agency guidance/EO. This creates a new status quo.
• Step 2: Ignore any objections and delay during inevitable court challenges to sustain the new rule as long as possible.
• Step 3: Argue in trial court or appellate court that an injunction against the new rule will disrupt the status quo.
• Step 4a: Court rejects the injunction. Go to Step 2.
• Step 4b: Court agrees to the injunction. Appeal, and optionally ignore the court order during the appeal, which only creates more urgency for the appellate court and challenger to address the appeal.

Why do some people like vinyl? Why did the iPod’s scroll wheel evoke joy when used? Why is the OG PSP’s UMD drive clicking open and closed enjoyable?

If you’re looking to abstractly optimize consumption and sharing efficiency, it’s worse. But if you’re looking to optimize personal connection to the art and to other people, having some tactile interaction and giving a physical object that embodies the music arguably does that better.

I’d even bet that if you scanned brain activity of someone opening an MP3 versus someone putting in a disc and hitting a play button, the disc’s physical interaction very likely creates stronger neural pathways that trigger more chemical rewards.

That’s very well said. The bottom line is Democrats’ entire theory of political power is backwards. They need to demonstrate value to get political power. But instead we have Jefferies and Schumer who whine about not having political power so they can’t demonstrate value.

Right…Per the article, the guy is fighting with the town’s lawyers who are apparently sending takedowns to Google without a legal basis.

Per the article, because he wanted to shine light on the fact that you play by different rules if you are wealthy.

From the article:

Parr’s experiment and documentary raises questions, of course, about who gets to have privacy in America. A wealthy enclave has set up the legal and surveillance infrastructure to be able to prevent being mapped. The rest of us, meanwhile, are subject to all sorts of surveillance by our neighbors and law enforcement. “The only reason it’s set up this way is because it’s such a wealthy community,” Parr said. “I know that I was able to do this, but I don’t know if I should be able to do this, and that’s kind of the question that I wanted to tackle. The YouTube comments are pretty crazy man. They’re all over the place. They’re very split 50/50 on that question.”

Seems like a pretty worthy activity to me.

Yup, both the Paul Ryan and stock market metaphors are apt.

But taking the Paul Ryan comparison to its conclusion is probably also apt - he never had the chance to buy back in low, because he didn’t factor in that this particular market has no bottom. The only rational move with the GOP, ever, is to just cash out and leave forever.

But they’re bracing for long hours and possible late nights in a bid to build momentum for the bill, which already has broad public support. A recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters found that 71 percent support the SAVE America Act.

That’s pretty depressing. But then, I suppose low-information people would support any bill if they just called it “The Good Law Act.”

Oh, right, that’s basically what they did when they passed the, what was it called, Big Conservative Wet Dream Bill last year.

Edit: Oh, seeing the headlines alongside the poll that are all extremely suspect and right-washing, I wanted to check further.

Despite that TheHill reports uncritically about it and it is somehow associated with Harvard, the poll was commissioned by Stagwell Global, a marketing firm that is run by Mark Penn, who is apparently a “deep state” conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter, and contact info for the poll is not Harvard, but Stagwell, who also somehow was allowed to “release” the poll (“Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) today released the results of the February Harvard CAPS / Harris poll…”).

All in all I feel the most likely fit for the above is this is propaganda and not reliable.

Hopefully we live to see them have to argue for their own stupidity as a defense in a criminal war crime tribunal.

You’re right to feel insulted. LLMs are verbose and unreliable often enough that you have to check any work that comes out (or be negligent).

So what’s usually happening is someone is saving their time by spending yours. They saved the time normally needed to write a thoughtful reply by shifting the time and cognitive cost of reading and verifying to you, with AI as an excuse (often not without condescension, which is a type of “virtue signaling” driven by c-suite AI boosting). The slop output looks like “work product,” but is neither - it took no work and is a facade of a “product” because it’s unverified.

They are being selfish, and it is objectively an insulting act.

It would be nice that he said this on Fox News, since his supporters wouldn’t ever see it otherwise.

But if they’ve gone along with him this far, I’m sure they are fine with this as well. “He shouldn’t say it, but I know what he meant, and I have good genes so I’m fine,” is probably as far as they’ll get.

Literally thousands? Have you tried bookmarking things after they’ve sat unused for awhile?

I typically just periodically save my browser windows with a tab manager extension. I just say because thousands sounds like way too much to keep track of…

Funny story, they actually did this to me before this all happened, and I was on a “I’m never going to update again” beta firmware that they gave me a link to, when the forced-update happened that broke my wifi. I didn’t disable any ADB-level processes, and I don’t think the system let me disable updates.

I mean, that’s great in theory. But the amount of manufacturers of non-smart TVs is tiny, and if you are interested in the best panels and display technology, refresh rates for gaming, etc (even removing affordability), it’s very very hard to just boycott if you want to have a modern TV at all.