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Comment Re: They shat in their bed (Score 2, Interesting) 101

Some recipe sites also jumped into generative ai fairly quickly as well. Generative AI is great for recipes. A couple of years ago someone gathered lots of recipes for chocolate chip cookies, took the average in Excel, and won a chocolate chip cookie baking competition. This is essentially what generative ai does when generating recipes, and they are generally decent.

Comment Re: The Obvious Question (Score 1) 24

Paypal was never prohibited from becoming a bank. They remained not-a-bank because they believed it was a more profitable arrangement. They have now apparently changed their mind, and in my view they're many years late in that decision. Other startup financial services companies have been nipping at their heels harder and faster in the last couple years. Recent politics and are mentioned in the same story but it can not be concluded that these are directly related.

Comment Re: Read my post again (Score 1) 145

It's important to note that over the last 15 years, cumulative U.S. inflation has been on the order of about 45â"55% depending on which exact months you choose and which price index you use. College prices have risen faster than inflation but everything is more expensive too.

The library is most likely benefiting from volunteer labor to run the program and take care of the machines. The university has to pay someone for that. Completely changes the way the services are offered since there are real costs of labor.

Comment Re: Don't worry they are screwed (Score 1) 28

Web search is trending on a path similar to TV. At first, TV was free with no ads. Very quickly ads were introduced. Then came cable TV where you could pay and watch ad-free. Fairly soon after that cable TV had ads too. Then streaming did the same thing. The quest for every-increasing profits will have the same end result for paid search, eventually.

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