My Momentum 4s have 60 hours of battery life…

What?

Compiling quality datasets is enormously challenging and labour intensive. OpenAI absolutely knows the provenance of the data they train on as it’s part of their secret sauce. And there’s no damn way their CTO won’t have a broad strokes understanding of the origins of those datasets.

Or burned out because they get pulled into every project that’s gone off the rails.

If somebody wanted to draw animated kiddie porn they could still do that. How far would you go until you ban crayons

It’s genuinely impressive how completely you missed my point.

How about another analogy: US federal law allows people to own individual firearms, but not grenades.

But they’re both things that kill people, right? Why would they be treated differently?

Hint: it’s about scale.

The same is true of pipe bombs. But anyone can make a pipe bomb. Genie is out of the bottle, right? So why are there laws regulating manufacture and ownership of them? Hmm…

And how many times have you made this comment, only to have it pointed out that there is a big fucking difference between a human manually creating fake images via Photoshop at human speed using human skills, versus automating the process so it can be done en masse at the push of a button?

Because that’s a really big fucking difference.

Think: musket versus gatling gun. Yeah, they both shoot bullets, but that’s about where the similarity ends.

Is the genie out of the bottle at this point? Probably.

But to claim this doesn’t represent a massive shift because Photoshop? Sorry but that’s at best naive, and it’s starting to get exhausting seeing this “argument” trotted out repeatedly by AI apologists.

Oh, no worries, just figured I’d add that extra little bit of detail as it’s a useful hook into a lot of other git concepts.

For folks unaware, the technical git term, here, is a ‘ref’. Everything that points to a commit is a ref, whether it’s HEAD, the tip of a branch, or a tag. If the git manpage mentions a ‘ref’ that’s what it’s talking about.

Amazing how Google and Apple differ on so much, but in this respect they are in total agreement…

Oh god, I’m old…

Your first two paragraphs make the picture worse, not better.

As for your last, I’m not writing an economics thesis. It was a quick analysis to illustrate a problem no sane person disputes: streaming services have substantially driven down revenue for artists, to the point that for many it’s genuinely impossible to create their art while making a living wage.

Is it better than piracy? Sure. At least the artists are getting something (well, unless you drop below Spotify’s streaming cutoff, in which case you can get fucked). But it’s still a shitty deal and gives consumers someone else to blame as artists slowly bleed out.

The economics with the artists haven’t changed. Until they do I’ll still use them to pay artists a living wage.

Assuming each of those tracks is about 3.5 min long, that’s about 250 hours of music. Given your numbers they paid an average of 7 bucks per hour of music.

For context, 25 years ago a typical 45 minute album would fetch 15 bucks. And that’s not accounting for inflation adjustment.

I’m sure that’s totally sustainable for those artists…

As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.

I don’t understand the confusion.

Just use ActivityPub to publish blurbs and links to content available on your Ghost blog. Ghost supports subscriptions so you can then stand up a paywall when people click through.

Nothing about ActivityPub requires you syndicate full article content to the fedi. Hell my own blog doesn’t do that, if only because Mastodon is not a good place for long-form content.

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