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Comment Who is not mentioned in the article? (Score 5, Insightful) 70

The music labels - the copyright owners - are barely mentioned in this article at all, yet they are where all the money is going, incrementally, for every stream played.

They're the rentiers sucking it out of everyone else. Spotify does make a profit, but not a large one, because the costs of paying the copyright holders are so large. Yet the share of artist money from the copyright holders is tiny, so the big labels end up rich while artists end up screwed (especially smaller artists, as the article correctly points out) while the record labels end up on top.

It's really not Spotify sucking everyone dry here - it's the record labels, and it always has been.

(I have nothing to do with Spotify, I'm simply pointing out the vampire squid behind the mere octopus this article is blaming).

Comment A few facts (Score 5, Informative) 41

Some commenters here seem to be in need of some factual information.

PostNord AB is a private company and has been for some years, so the idea that this is a government service being withdrawn is untrue.

Danish law requires everyone to have access to postal services for letters. Therefore another private company, DAO, will provide postal delivery to everyone in Denmark and the ability for everyone in Denmark to send letters from DAO service points (in shops, etc).

A significant subsidy is being provided to DAO to enable a universal delivery service.

DAO will be the national postal service for international treaty (UPU) purposes, enabling letter and small parcel post between Denmark and other countries according to UPU agreements.

Comment Re:Not sure how where I fly (Score 2) 86

Gate staff check your ID matches your ticket at the gate in Heathrow.
Access to the airside area is with a boarding pass (the pass must be for a flight departing the same day and sufficiently far in the future, each pass can only be scanned to go airside once).

However this is not a significant security breach because:

(a) it cannot be done repeatedly or predictably
(b) the person was security screened to the same standards as everyone else

Therefore neither can it be exploited by someone planning to do so nor can someone who gets airside do so with anything harmful.

Comment One of these already makes a profit (Score 1) 50

... and it is not OpenAI.

The Big G is already (very) profitable and can fund a lot of development for a long time before they run out of money.

OpenAI not so much - they have a lot of investment, but they also have a lot of costs, and they have no other source of revenue.

Trying to pivot ChatGPT from answering your questions (with varying levels of accuracy) to answering your questions with deliberate bias towards whoever paid the most to get their product promoted (therefore with even less accuracy) is not nearly a certain bet.

Comment An eloquent way... (Score 1, Insightful) 72

... to say "O RLY?"

"I appreciate the author's hard work and dedication, but we need extraordinary evidence for an extraordinary claim," he said. "This analysis has not reached this status yet. It is a piece of work which serves as an encouragement for the workers in the field to keep on pressing."

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