It's Quibi all over again!

AFAIK, the MTV music channels had been part of paid packages only for many years, and didn't have any ads. I occasionally tuned in to MTV 80s and never saw them running an ad.

> while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Oh, great! More hot garbage to clutter up the WhatsApp UI. Anyone wanna take bets whether there will be a setting to disable these new "agents"?

I complained to the Meta AI about being unable to disable Meta AI in such vile language that Meta AI banned me from conversing with Meta AI. Unfortunately, the useless button is still there, getting in the way, regardless.

Maybe they did some of it to themselves, but this in particular is a poor example. A theatre can get fined if they don't enforce the age rating. For all the ticket vendor knew, your teens could've been part of a "sting operation".

To be clear, they do *not* have the same name. It seems extremely unlikely that a human would've made that mistake. Conflating two people with different names because part of one person's name was mentioned in the vicinity of part of another person's name is not a mistake humans tend to make.

If they did, it would clearly be gross negligence and very likely result in consequences. As it should here, because "the algorithm did it" has never been, and will never be, a loophole to escape liability.

Well, any streaming service worth a cent offers lossless quality. Just saying.

Poor analogy. You didn't have cake, you have been smashing other people's cakes. The compromise is that you still get to smash 50% of the cakes you've been smashing, while all those other people whose cakes you've been smashing at least get to keep half of theirs.

Your framing symbolises exactly the problem why we can't find consensus anymore. Any decision is interpreted only from the perspective of ME ME ME. What do I get, what do I have to give up? Without a second spent thinking about whether the people on the other side of the issue have valid concerns, too.

> Those who try to stifle our freedom of speech are not our friends.

We're in agreement there. Some European nations might not have the clearly worded protection of free speech that is part of the U.S. Constitution (although quite a few do, contrary to popular belief). But look at the actual dynamics and it's very quickly not so clear anymore on which side your peech is less likely to get you into trouble, especially with the current U.S. administration.

I'd say that, even if some might disagree with some of the European rules on which statements can be considered an offense, at least it's pretty clear upfront what those rules are. And they all veer into the territory of calls to criminal actions, threats, deliberate misrepresentation, or libel. Meanwhile, in the U.S. you're very obviously not factually protected by the First Amendment from being attacked by the federal government, even if your statements were all verifiably true and non-adversarial. One powerful politician can decide that the true things you say are against his personal business interests and make you suffer for it, using a weaponised justice system. That cannot really happen to you in Europe.

Sorry, I hit the wrong Reply link... this wasn't in response to you.

In short, because audiences hate it. High framerates destroy the suspension of disbelief and go too far into the Uncanny Valley.

The telling problem in this case is who's asking the question, because it's not the people with the technical expertise. It's the managers who "heard that AI will revolutionise software development".

It reminds me of a Dilbert strip where PHB strings together some Blockchain buzzwords.
Alice: "Did you recently read an article?"
PHB: "Some of it."

One of the very earliest pieces of advice I was given by a heavier user of LLM coding tools than me was: if it doesn't give you what you want at the first or second shot, start over or give up. The whole back-and-forth of trying to coax it toward the solution is a fool's errand. The model is either able to give you what you want almost instantly, or it's not capable, period. I find that this advice still holds very true.

However, with very actively developed libraries and frameworks, I often run into the problem of LLM tools generating code for deprecated interfaces, or mixing the APIs of different versions.

It won't compile until someone publishes a malware package under that name.

No, he's the kind of person who thinks that a market valuation of $400M for an upstart pet food distributor might be a tad over the top.

It was pretty obvious even before the dot-com bubble burst who provided some genuine value and could find a viable business model, and who was just riding the hype wave.

Same as now. Beyond fancy fuzzy search (which is valuable and probably viable, sure) I have yet to see such reasonable looking use cases for LLMs and GenAI.