It would be a nice challenge, like: Q: how long to transfer 1395 Gb at 298.25 Kb/s? A: 7 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes, 7 seconds.

Spotify has, as of 2025, approximately 100 million tracks, and add some 1.8M songs monthly, apparently. So... what they're saying is that they just ditched three quarters of their entire catalogue, titles which took them almost 4 years to accumulate, because they now have a policy in place which says "You can use AI, but not too much." And to think, they don't have any AI detector, so the best they can do is investigate artists with the highest upload frequencies and send them a notice pointing out the new policy. Then tell the world 75% of the platform was fake, but it's totally fixed now.

"You may have high blood pressure." And it took a team of researchers many years to work that out before realizing they can just blame the AI now? Don't know whether that's funny or sad.

I like ice cream when it's cold, too. I make my own sugar-free, dairy-free, liqueur-based ice cream to mitigate the effects of weather.

i love how the reaction to this instantly generates a political mud-slinging match as everyone scrambles to appoint blame. There have been thousands of research papers published probing why some kids do better than others and those variables, by definition, do not include anything common between them. Same school, same class, same temperature outside, same person as president. So if the rate of literacy rate falls, you simply look for a corresponding trend in the variables to explain it, such as ratio of kids from stable families to kids with problems at home, or, put another way, ratio of motivated to unmotivated children. There are many variables, but the trend is evident: there are fewer motivated children today, just as there are fewer role models (usually parents) for them to admire.

there's a difference between light pollution and noise pollution and these guys have the two mixed up. Light pollution doesn't bother birds at all but to be heard, they need to vocalize for longer and start earlier than the encroaching noise of the city.

I said to my boss, "You'd think we'd be working for AI by now" and at that time, we were duplicating art someone had pulled from DALL-E. CEOs will be replaced with AI, I feel, after all, it would probably do a better job and wonderfully, no-one will hate it for being CEO.

... what's the next big thing? Robolympics!

I am practiced in the art of retouching images including editing 4"x5" negatives on glass, which involves picking at tones to reduce them and using a stipple brush to build tones with the same grain as the film. Mostly, the technique was used to 'paint in' open eyes, as the exposure was so long the subject posed eyes closed. All portraits from about 1870 to 1900 received this standard treatment, so manipulation was sortof baked in from the get-go.

IQ is a *ratio* of mental age against physical age. If you're 22 and think like a 22-year-old, your IQ is 100.

I wrote a sci-fi novel which postulated the same thing, the fun being in speculating on daily applications. That said, mapping neural activity has to learn how each brain processes stimuli, for they differ, requiring a flash stimulus-response test for those not in the database. So the vehicle takes you where you want to go and at that level, targeted ads become sure-fire sales.

As far as I can make out, Adobe's massive shift to AI and subsequent adoption of AWS earlier this year grants them insights to stats useful for marketing, such as AI adoption, influencer and socmed referrals, YoY spend trends by sector etc. They publish the stats but it's more a vindication of their current AI-centric plan.

or zero people. google wants to automate youtube, just gen AI being consumed. perfect.

i work in art department in film and for the most part, gen AI has made life a lot easier for art directors, set dressers and so on... where the old brief was maybe a sketch or storyboard, it's now something the director liked while he was mucking about and wants something 'just like that'. in a way it has created more work.

agreed, although once you pass 1000 subs, your content is monetized (ads flighted) regardless.