These media companies don't realise that their own days are limited. When Joe Bloggs can use AI to create a whole TV show from a prompt, why would he pay Netflix to show him a whole TV show created from a prompt?
Publishers planning on using AI to write books 'in the style of' will also be short lived for the same reason.

Nice little media server, but it's the first and last Mac I will ever buy.

I drive a 1998 Impreza WRX which I bought new. It has 170,000km on the clock (105k miles) and drives like a new car even though it's 27 years old. 15 years is nothing if you look after a vehicle and don't drive it like you stole it.

I gave up my fiction writing career about 4 years ago since everyone I met seemed to be so excited they could now 'write a book' using AI. Screw it, I thought. You want to pump out that crap, you can read that crap.

I agree, it's hilariously bad at this task. Each time I've given it specific details it ignores the parameters. E.g. I gave it a date range of 1970-1975 and it suggested works from 2005. Or it makes up titles and assigns them to authors who don't even write in the genre.

Until it can admit that it doesn't know or doesn't have the data to generate an accurate response, it's no use to me.

Australian consumer protection laws override anything companies try to stick in their EULAs. I'm sure other countries like Denmark can figure out how to do the same.

I call solar power 'remote nuclear fusion'.

Around my area, after about 6pm there are big buses running every 30 mins until after midnight which have 0-1 passengers on board. It'd be cheaper to send one of these new vehicles straight to the stop where someone might actually be waiting and drop them at their house.

A) use ad blocker and noscript - the latter only allowing domains I whitelist
B) ignore all sites that insist I turn the ad blocker off

Yes, it can be inconvenient at times, but ads have proven to be unsafe again and again.

Yep, good luck scrolling a website, downloading a PDF instruction manual, and zooming in on a section to see the wiring diagram - something I had to do yesterday on my phone. Even that was so painful compared to the PC screen that I went and used my desktop instead.

Plus people buy these phones with gigantic screens so they can play casual games on them. I'd love to see someone directing their army in Boom Beach or building a fort in some other game.

I've been programming for decades, and have run my own software business for 25 of those. A couple of years ago I started spending more time making money from one of my other passions ... carpentry and woodwork. At least those won't get screwed over any time soon.

Douglas Adams was one of the writers in the Tom Baker era, to mention one example.

I know several devs who removed their apps so their home address wasn't published for everyone to see. Of all the stupid moves by big tech, this was one of the dumbest.

Funny, I just mentioned the exact same game. Elite Dangerous still takes up way too much of my time.

Before Elite most games had 3 lives, you lost them one by one and started again. Then Elite came long and you could play indefinitely, in 8 galaxies of 256 planets each ... all crammed into 32k. Space trading, combat, ship upgrades, even an alien race.
Did I forget to mention it was all rendered in 3d wireframe?
There were two sequels, and then Elite Dangerous was released in 2015, and is still actively developed.