NewDayRocks

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Question for you - what do you think produces the profit for IGN? Is it the quality of their content or just their branding?

  Are they too big to fail? That no matter what content they put out it will continue to produce the same profit regardless of how good it is?

  Do you believe that a contractor at lower salary and benefits armed with AI will be able to handle the 2-3x workload that current employees are doing at comparable competency?

  Do you believe that IGN will also be backfill all these positions that suddenly opened up and provide training without suffering a noticeable dip in productivity?

  If you believe all that then sure, these employees have little to no power. Let’s see if IGN shares this sentiment and, if they do, let’s see if it works out for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. Thanks for clarifying.

  Although I am pretty sure AI is already used in the medical field for research and diagnosis. This “AI everywhere” trend you are seeing is the result of everyone trying to stick and use AI in every which way.

  The thing about the AI boom is that lots of money is being invested into all fields. A bubble pop would result in investment money drying up everywhere, not make access to AI more affordable as you are suggesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You and OP are misunderstanding what is meant by good and cheap.

  It’s not cheap from a resource perspective like you say. However that is irrelevant for the end user. It’s “cheap” already because it is either free or costs considerably less for the user than the cost of the resources used. OpenAI or Meta or Twitter are paying the cost. You do not need to pay for a monthly subscription to use AI.

  So the quality of the content created is not limited by cost.

  If the AI bubble popped, this won’t improve AI quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is good and cheap now because businesses are funding it at a loss, so not sure what you mean here.

  The problem is that it’s cheap, so that anyone can make whatever they want and most people make low quality slop, hence why it’s not “good” in your eyes.

  Making a cheap or efficient AI doesn’t help the end user in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big companies are subject to constant audits. You, too, can check their balance sheets that are released and scrutinize the numbers.

  While you may personally dislike MS products, most of the world’s businesses and governments run on them. That’s licensing money every month without fail. They can literally charge whatever they want because companies with staff want Office and Windows Server backend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Olympic policy change bans transgender women in women's events⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To anyone reading this, know that this guy is just posting Gish Gallop and misunderstanding the assignment.

  The question was which transfem Olympians this ruling protects against. As in, people who are switching from MtF to gain a competitive advantage by abusing the rules to steal medals?

  The very first example this guy cites is a 50yo MtF who joined some tiny school basketball team… to play basketball. Even in the game cited she played poorly and their team lost. They are not a competitive team in any sense.

  OP is purposely trying to pad out a list to make something a problem that isn’t. Somewhat ironic because thats basically the whole trans athlete issue summed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What could go wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you are facing mental health issues and a free or inexpensive AI that is available and doesn’t burden your friends actually helps you, do you really care about your information and being profited from?

  Put it this way, if Google was being super transparent with you and said, “we’ll help treat you, and in exchange we use your info to make a few thousand dollars.” Will you the individual say, “no thanks I’d rather pay a few hundred per therapy session instead”?

  Even if you hate it, you have to admit it’s hard to say no. Especially if it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Auto sorting trash can⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this a shit post? This is like straight out of Silicon Valley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are not accounting for the percentage of people who read it but are still cool with forfeiting their soul.