So, it's basically like a Cane Toad then?

I personally didn't like Curiosity Stream when I tried it years ago. The docos always felt a little too close to entertainment for my liking.

My favourite streaming service is The Great Courses. It had a small hiccup when it rebranded as Wondrium for a few years and merged its content with Magellan etc, but the users complained loudly and the company went back to their core competency. I have no problem giving them my money even though I will never get through all the courses they have on offer.

Because this is happening in the USA? The land of fake peace plans and stolen elections, where nobody cares about the truth?

It's.....not that simple. When the LLM industry crashes, the US economy will crash with it. The businesses who supply the AI companies will have cash flow and debt problems, and their rich paying customers will be gone. The smaller businesses who have made themselves dependent on AI services today will shut down, because hiring people to replace the services will be too expensive. The new grads will have nowhere to go, especially if they're competing with desperate experienced folks.

Probably Q wormholed it into our galaxy just to mess with us!

It's clearly a biased example intended to make the white collar readers of the WSJ feel good.

In reality, another example of a non-internet job is NBA professional basketball player. Those guys make plenty of money, Internet is NOT required.

But then again, listing those examples would make some of the white collars question their life choices...

They should standardize it. Then they'll have three!

No they won't. Trump will simply move his Gold House to Aspen, CO. Problem solved.

I hate to say I told you so, but..... I told you so! The economics of capital and resource intensive AI services coupled with low demand needs somebody to step up and pay for it. It's not the users, who don't value AI enough to cough up real money and so must be tricked into using it for free. It's no longer the investors, who have put in real money for the last 3 years and are starting to ask for real returns on their investment, not a Ponzi scheme. The last resort to pay for AI are the advertisers. Like advertising in search, advertising in AI will cause the service to degrade and lose its value.

And that's why I use adblockers etc. Because, it's not my job to subsidise the free products with my eyeballs. If it's free, then it's free. If it's free, but you want something in return, then it's a seedy bait-and-switch tactic designed to bypass the normal pricing mechanism. Money is the normal mechanism used for regulating supply and demand.

Tut tut. I am not surprised anyone would say this if they have a very narrow exposure to human beings, and no children. Anyone who has children, or knows somebody who has children, would not be surprised that anyone expected that these things actually would work. In particular, your original impulse is spot on. You really should tut tut and say that these companies are predatory and lying about the capabilities of their products.

I thought you were going to say that Linus is not a skyscraperator! Don't change the analogy mid-thread please, it's confusing!

That is the nature of bubbles. It's not all lemmings who jump the cliff. It's also hunters who think they are smart enough to stop just before the cliff edge. And then there's hunters who think the other hunters will fall anyway but they don't want to miss out and will be able to stop in time. The ones who stay home don't bring back any food.

That's a completely backwards view of the GDPR. It's easy to comply if you build your site from scratch. However, if you insist on using noncompliant infrastructure solutions to build your site, then of course you'll have headaches and software rewrites and annoying popup hacks. That's on you (or your boss). Alternatively, make the right design choices initially and you'll be fine.

You are clearly wrong on that. Ask yourself what the purpose of the GDPR is and it becomes very easy to write software from scratch that complies.