Absolutely not, I did not imply that, the post is about digital reproduction/ownership of music (if I haven’t misunderstood it)

And that is, basically, free, a very “low” cost of copying bytes. What we pay on Spotify and Apple Music are not the artists, not their instruments or recording hardware or mastering software.

We pay the intermediaries.

Concerts, museums, theatres, etc, have high costs so I’m completely fine for them to cost money to the visitors.

Look, I understand it can come off as pretentious. Perhaps it is

But let’s frame this a second.

AI, as I’m sure you are all aware, is a very old concept with useful applications dating back in the 80s. Not “the future is bright”, but “this is a useful tool that is already helping in many fields”.

Then one day, in the last 5 years, monopolists start doing generative AI to offer a flashy useless and wasteful service.

We then start calling this specific abuse of the technology, and of tens of years of passionate research, like the technology itself, overshadowing the rest.

If you think there’s nothing wrong with that, I understand why my comment is unwanted. I think that it’s wrong, a generalisation we wouldn’t accept in other fields. I will refrain from making examples as I don’t want to sound even more pretentious.

I guess I made my stand, I’ll refrain coming back to this post at this point.

I’m sorry if it sounded OT, the title triggered my comment, and I think my point stands on that. With all respect to the contents of the article.

Let’s please try to be more specific

“AI” in general is just overpowered statistics, which can be used in many very useful ways, including saving life and reducing the work needed to fulfill the needs of a population. AI can help plan maintenance to infrastructure, saving resources.

The issue is the use of Generative AI that does no good public deeds, that is just a waste of resources, trained without consent on the data, to make investors happy.

Which is more complex than just saying “AI”, the same way “Monopolistic social networks that exploit their user’s data for toxic advertisement” is more complex than just saying “computers” or “the internet”

(Oh and I believe Bandcamp is a close second)

Ideally one wouldn’t need to pay to experience a form of art

Rather, one should first experience the art, and then if they want they could make a donation

I think that buying a CD directly from the musician at their concert or event is the only truly direct way that doesn’t end up giving most of the money to monopolistic intermediary

“Don’t you have time for our lord and saviour?”

“I still haven’t finished reading the Times, I’ll drop by them when I’m done”

“Yes, Vance thinks” is the news here

Ma cosa mi dici dici dici mai

faccia sorpresa di topo gigio

La tecnologia non sostituisce, in toto, quasi nessuno.

La domanda non è chiederci se un giorno la figura dello psicologo sarà completamente soppiantata da un sistema automatico “migliore”. Semmai ciò che è più probabile che accada è che, in un contesto di libero mercato, delle aziende decidano di offrire servizi psicologici a più basso costo di uno psicologo, eseguendo molti passaggi con una AI, per ridurre i costi.

Poi, a lungo andare, se questa organizzazione del lavoro dovesse funzionare, potrebbe crearsi uno standard, potrebbe essere incrementata la ricerca su questo caso d’uso, e quindi alla lunga una buona dose di psicologi potrebbero vedersi con meno lavoro disponibile, o il loro salario diminuito al punto da scoraggiare altri a intraprendere la carriera.

A mio parere, queste discussioni su cosa la AI non sarà mai in grado di fare lasciano molto il tempo che trovano, non imparano da ciò che è realmente accaduto ai vari mestieri e settori in cui la AI sta prendendo piede.

Exactly, you need a specific setup to enjoy it, and you need to give it focus!

I don’t think that making content specifically to be liked by people who wouldn’t enjoy the typical style is a good concept… It can be explored sure, but they also need to make sure to make new trak-like content too

But again I really need to see discovery and snw to see how things are going right now. I also don’t want to judge the s31 movie before watching it

My personal experience is that one should be ready to watch star trek.

When I was 20 I simply wasn’t ready and didn’t try watching any of it despite a friend insisting it was worth it.

Two years ago, instead, I was so ready that I could enjoy TOS too

I’m still not at discovery, so I need to see the nuTrek to say more. But I really just think you can’t advertise trek too much.

I didn’t delete my accounts, I just use them much less.

I didn’t exactly force myself, it’s just that every time I are then doing shitty things I automatically associate their socials to the dire political situation in the US so I end up not using them.

Also, the advertisement: there’s none in the fediverse, when I’m on the big tech apps I’m not used to adverts anymore

I don’t think it’s federated yet

Office apps removing the top bar (File, Edit, etc) completely, not even by pressing ALT you can have it

Mario Kart newer versions not having missions like we had in the DS edition, does it count? (Not to mention Pokemon not supporting the full dex at every game anymore)

SoundCloud putting way more adverts on the mobile app than on desktop, we are talking about one adv every two songs instead of every 10-20, simply because there are more casual users on the mobile space and the competition is two monopolists like Spotify and YTMusic

Phone built-in music apps (and most local music apps) not supporting division of music by folder, only by metadata

Every single stupid game on mobile framelagging if you don’t have a flagship, because screw lower quality settings, a frogger clone clearly needs hundreds of magabytes to display your voxel art at 120fps even if only 10 end up being shown

AWS changing their console layouts every year but not even once having a clear graphical explanation of all the costs

META chats all having different options and usability and no intercompatibility

WhatsApp changing every now and then so my gradma has to learn every time, and now risks inviting people to calls because the button to add new people has a new quick special place

Google News putting notifications after notification after notification not knowing there are 20 of them already and the user always skips through them. But hey, your phone is now smart with Gemini

That could be an interesting explanation of why gender studies have been a target so often, even during the Nazi era

Other scapegoats have changed, while this comes bsck

Io ho invece la sensazione che I nativi digitali dai 2000-2005 in su tendino a non credere a nulla di ciò che trovano a telefono, e soprattutto che magari usano i social ma non cercano sui motori di ricerca o su wikipedia

Per chi ha vissuto internet pre-social, era scontato che bastava qualche ricerca per ottenere informazioni importanti. Chi invece ha iniziato direttamente sui social non ha appreso questo meccanismo, al massimo lo fa durante un compito per casa apposito.

Ora c’è la nuova ondata com le LLM generative, ma il loro uso mi dà più la sensazione si essere un sostituto di reddit che dei genitori, perché a sua volta reddit era una alternativa ai genitori.

Considerando che prima certe domande le avrebbero fatte a coetanei o poco più, o a google, direi che è buona cosa

Sono proprio shockato /s

La speranza è che la riposta dal basso venga ascoltata

Però più tempo passa con questo exploit delle estreme destre, più le altre forze politiche saranno tentate e gli elettorati accetteranno. Certo il CDU ha un prestigio, che sta mettendo a rischio…