If social media can survive advertising, it can survive AI

FTR, I selected the phrase "respecting copyrights" specifically to avoid judging right or wrong on present copyright policy.

If MidJourney and Photoshop are both tools, then so is a tool to download copyrighted films (which is clearly not respecting copyrights).

Copyright law already distinguishes between exact copies, derivative works, and fair use. All delineated by fuzzy boundaries. So it's contextual, based on circumstances. In the case of MidJourney, to comply with copyright law, they probably need to put up guardrails like GPT5 already has done. GPT5 will outright refuse to draw Superman, but MidJourney happily complies. If guradrails let something slip through, then maybe there should be a DMCA take-down mechanism.

I hate it when people say "my computer used a kilowatt of energy". Same here. 1.6 years per what? I believe it's per 8 years of the study. So annualized that's an acceleration of (9.6/8)^(1/8) = 2.3%/year. Now, in real life it's probably not cumulative like that. Their study group was middle-aged. It's quite possible that consumption brings cognitive capacity down to a lower baseline and stays there. But the 2.3% number gives you a flavor of the acceleration rate.

"requiring information blackout"? As a U.S.-based website, it should read (at minimum) "prompting information blackout".

That requires a 5G tower, which would not be available to rural customers

There are still dial-up services available:

• NetZero
• MSN
• Juno

With a specification coming out in 2028, that means the very first (enterprise, high-end) products can be expected 2030 at the earliest. And that's based on past (PCIe5 and earlier) rapid adoption. PCIe6 was standardized three years ago and there are still no motherboards.

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

I like Windows. But I like unified memory more.

It's super-trite, but true: technology can be used for good or bad.

I love the productivity gains and breadth of instructional knowledge AI has given me.

I hate that when I'm on Facebook I have to spend half my time blocking groups that generate AI summaries of classic TV shows and characters (that I'm otherwise a big fan of and follow).

...assuming the book can still be found in print form

CSS is not Turing complete

cf V'Ger

Of the three "godfathers of AI", Yann LeCun is the only one who is not concerned about the dangers of AI. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65886125

He disagrees with his fellow godfathers that AI is a risk to the human race.