Exactly this!

They’re pretending it’s AI, or cryptocurrency, but neither has any use case that anybody wants or needs aside from money laundering and homework cheating

Well sure.

But when the lowest-hanging fruit is all harvested, reaching for the next available thing requires investment and so quarterly profits start dropping. Once the investments have been paid for, profits will never come back to where they were previously so it’s always diminishing returns

Now you’re catching on!

Because anything that isn’t easiest isn’t profitable

The entire crypto industry is just a circle of dogs, all sniffing the butt of the dog ahead as they walk in an endless circle.

2006 made me suspicious of the Democrats forever. Pelosi and the party ran on defunding the Iraq War, then promptly dropped it upon taking office.

I DID primary for Obama because he was promising a public healthcare option. We all know how that turned out: he ultimately championed a Republican scheme to entrench private insurers. Democrats failed to support their party’s signature policy proposal when it mattered.

While Obama expanded the Bush wars…

That’s when I gave up all hope in the party making any progress or acting in good faith. They haven’t given me any reason to rethink that stance.

Sorry your efforts and enthusiasm were wasted and abused by the DNC…

I recall the Coffee Party having a moment, a nationwide movement planned meetups all coordinated. In Asheville, I attended. the meetup was crashed by Obama’s Organizing for America, and I later learned that they crashed meetups everywhere.

I remember the smooth-talking guy and how he hijacked the meeting as we were making real progress. Fuck Obama and fuck the DNC

Democrats don’t even promise anything anymore. Not since 2008

Have you ever heard of the IRA?

Fuck Israel. Fuck AIPAC. Fuck Biden. Fuck Trump. Fuck Schumer.

I support Palestine. I support Hamas. Arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport student protestors at Columbia makes me more supportive of Palestine and Hamas.

Yeah fuck Reddit. It was a great platform once. Now it’s dogshit. The leadership is visionless and obsessed with monetization, finally deciding to kill the golden goose

Ah yeah, well… At least in America, the marketing gap is pretty wide I think! (mostly based around LLMs)

Our “AI” courseware was pretty basic outside of the facial recognition (which I found impressive, if not TOO useful). It would keep track of student responses and tailor some questions based on previous performance, but that’s pretty basic (I think it would have been better if our content developers knew how to work with the software)

About the marketing, we were actually a multimedia educational materials maker. Textbooks, courseware, video series , etc etc

The founder/CEO liked to pretend we were a tech company, but our bread and butter was VIPKids-style English lessons and textbook series with long shelf life. (I often felt like he was cosplaying as Jack Ma, Steve Jobs, or Jeff Bezos, if you know what I mean)

I have no good references that aren’t boring propaganda from state media… Search China Daily for stories about ed tech

Or more broadly, search for “Ed tech” or “educational technology”

I think our “AI” was mostly BS, but I guess it had its niche.

Oh that reminds me… When I worked at state media, we ran stories about AI facial recognition at the winter Olympics. The stories claimed that they could identify more than 99 percent of people wearing COVID masks (I suspect this may be an exaggeration, as airport immigration officials and train station officials would make people remove masks and smile for cameras)

Also, just remembered: During my time at state media, I recall reading some Xi Jinping quote along the lines of “Whoever has the best AI will control the future”

Truly you’re doing the gods’ work

My company in China added AI to its products basically to receive government subsidies.

They introduced it into courseware to track student faces and tell parents whether kids were enjoying lessons, paying attention, etc etc. It was weird to see in action. I used the software and acted like a “bad student” to see what it would say about my face and lack of attention.

I’m also a voice actor. They tried to replace me with AI voices but the voices in 2021 were stuck in the uncanny valley and clients complained.

The company pretty much went belly-up when Beijing introduced the Double Reduction policy. I wonder what became of the their software? And I wonder if they ever made an AI version of my voice

Elaborate?

Can I say “I hope Elon Musk dies and I can have sex with his corpse”?

Learn manual. It’s not that hard but later in life you’ll have few opportunities to learn it if you need it

This is fascinating and I have a bunch of questions, basically all centered around the fact that possession of the such content is outlawed. I don’t exoect OP to know, but maybe someone else does:

Isn’t it illegal to have a library of such content? Is there a legal carveout for that, like Coca Cola importing cocaine?

How is the library compiled, maintained, and added to?

Is the library specific to Discord or is it a shared library maintained by some centralized “authority” or developer? If it’s specific to Discord then can we assume there are many different libraries of illegally produced and possessed content compiled and maintained by various social media companies? Who’s got that job? Do they get therapy in their benefits package?

How does eating popcorn == CSAM?

Sideshow Bob is real!