Most algorithmically generated content is... not worth paying for. Of course, 'in the future' AI will get better, and AI slop will disappear, says the man who's invested heavily in AI systems.

Much stock market and sports score reporting has been generated for years. That works when you have regularized inputs and narrow outputs. This is 'convert this table to text in pre-defined paragraph formats' and not that complicated. Will AI tools help content creators? Sure? Will it make content creators go away? Some. Others will use AI tools to generate even more content.

As for no-human-in-the-loop podcasts/YouTube channels? Those audiences of ten people that marketing f***wits are convinced will be 'microtargetted' consumers / voters are likely to be 90 per cent bots. It'll just be a huge waste of electricity.

We have narcissistic CEO types, tapping away in ChatGTP all day, and the LLMs are providing a narcissistic feedback loop. In public companies, axis 2 cluster b personalities tend to group in management, and with LLMs telling these maniacs that they're blessed with cosmic insights, management has become insufferable.

The only good benefit I have seen from AI is that marketing f***wits have all been laid off.

They're special.

I've been saying the same thing about Agile for years. If Agile is so great, why don't you want Payroll to use it?

Decades ago, this was a great company. They made analogue bench test equipment that's probably still in use. Now, not so much. Back in 2006, they hired PI to try to plant spyware on at least one reporter's computer.

Nowadays, HP - not even once.

And they make us do a war dance every morning, praising the virtues of AI. The only really good thing AI has done is got rid of marketing departments.

Electricity may be cheap in Saudi Arabia, but it's also 45 degrees Celsius for much of the year.

The correct answer is to Brexit even harder. If the UK keeps Brexiting, and clapping for Tinkerbell, the economy will get better and Europe will be on bended knee to the UK. You'll see!

DST means that in the norther US, children can go to and from school in daylight which has public safety benefits. Want your kids going to school in darkness? No problem, but don't complain later.

"Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Yossarian shouted at her in bewildered, furious protest. "How did you know it was Catch-22? Who the hell told you it was Catch-22?"

"The soldiers with the hard white hats and clubs. The girls were crying. 'Did we do anything wrong?' they said. The men said no and pushed them away out the door with the ends of their clubs. 'Then why are you chasing us out?' the girls said. 'Catch-22,' the men said. All they kept saying was 'Catch-22, Catch-22.' What does it mean, Catch-22? What is Catch-22?"

"Didn't they show it to you?" Yossarian demanded, stamping about in anger and distress. "Didn't you even make them read it?"

"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."

"What law says they don't have to?""Catch-22."

Hardly earth-shattering news.