Nothing ironic about it. Pichai's artwork has a watermark. He's being up-front that the image is AI generated and it's a product of his company. His holiday greeting is just another marketing message for Gemini and being posted that way by the CEO is totally on-brand. Apple is promoting their TV series with Cook's message and not generative art.

Given the mistakes found in the image In wondering if "modern and whimsical" is code for "lacks classical drawing skills and attention to detail".

Normal people downloading warez and movies aren't repackaging them into a product or presenting them as a work they created themselves. They're just entertaining themselves.

That's an angle I don't see mentioned very often when it comes to AI in the work world. The AI companies don't want to assume liability for anything their creation does (like giving away all the snacks in a vending machine for free, or deleting a bunch of corporate data in a fever dream), but then they try and sell AI as a replacement for humans doing many jobs.

Would a company hire a human who preemptively refuses to be held responsibility for their actions on the job?

Yes, but you can't do it as fast as you can using AI coding tools, according to your boss. He doesn't have any actual numbers to back up this assertion, and he wouldn't be looking at the impact on time in the QA/testing phase either. But he's sure he's right after talking to that guy he played golf with last month, and is willing to stake your job on it.

Isn't that how most investors are nowadays? Invest, demand raising of price at the expense of long-term viability, cash out before the butcher's bill comes. Suckers who didn't sell quick enough are left holding the bankruptcy bag.

EULA is part of the setup process. You'd need the previous owner to testify they didn't factory reset the TV before they sold it, as most people would to erase their streaming service credentials.

This stuff is listed in the EULAs the customers agree to when they set up the TV. I mostly see it in the one that is associated with the "auto picture enhancement" setting, where the TV can adjust picture qualities to suit the content you are watching (movies, sports, etc). Good luck invalidating one of the most-abused tools in company belts.

You simply buy the TV and don't connect it to the internet at all. If you want to do initial updating of the TV's firmware, create a temporary guest network on your wireless and add the TV to it, then delete the network when you're done.

Use a separate streaming device for your streaming services. You could make one with a SBC and then watch the services via web browser to the TV if you want to get extreme with this.

Shareholders cheer for layoffs specifically because of the savings. Lower headcount = lower operational costs and higher net profits. If headcount is reduced investors will expect to hear news of what the savings was.

The Slashdot story link is to:
https://www.msn.com/en-my/tech...

The freemalaysiatoday is a channel (?) here -- I guess the source of the story. I almost looks like an ad since you have the sidebar on the right that has links to the freemalayasiatoday website. So I guess this is kinda a "news by tertiary source situation". FreeMalayasiaToday republishes a story by Bloomburg, and MSN picks it up from FreeMalayasiaToday.

Curious why they think AI will increase senior leadership headcount. With fewer lower-level employees why would they need more management? Also, considering the salaries those senior managers feel they deserve, that will quickly eat up any cost savings from the layoffs.

And there never was any such evidence. This entire charade can be explained as "Trump makes bombastic claims he can force a foreign business to sell, gets lesson in reality, shows he's too chicken to follow through on his threats." He can't lose a major tent pole of his circus.

I'm sure the comments for this article will be filled with well-thought-out replies and level-headed discussion on technology and political freedom.

What do you mean? Didn't you see that AI video he posted awhile back with the jet? He certainly took a dump on people who coincidentally watch TV too.

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There is nothing relating to patents in this story. Terms being used in product names have to be actively used in a product. You can't just call dibs on a word and then not do anything with it. That includes terms you used in the past. Otherwise we would eventually run out of practical names for products due to past use in history and "Trademark Trolls" who register everything in the dictionary and sit on it -- the result will be product names that look like email addresses.