Agreed. I think there is (was?) a parental desire for operating systems to provide a standard set of optional age or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect.
But various groups are deliberately conflating that desire for attestation with verification: Politicians who want to police speech, companies who want to advertise to verified humans, and privacy advocates who want an easier strawman to attack.
> Starting today, AI-generated music will not be monetizable.
AKA: We will take the value, if any, AI-generated music gives, but we will not be paying royalties. This is a contradictory statement. How does the AI-generated music give value if the generated content is inherently worthless?
its not uncommon. The overtly racist parties in the UK (e.g. the BNP) for example has quite a lot of left wing policies (e.g. nationalisation of utilities), ending NHS outsourcing to the private sector, and free healthcare.
Its a combination that appeals to the worst off who compete with unskilled immigrants for jobs and rely on free healthcare etc.
> When I walk into my office and sit at my desk, I’m choosing to be there. When I walk away, I have a door I can close, and a life outside the room that the digital world is no longer allowed to reach.
Being intentional is hard, and a little friction helping it is welcome. But I do hope for myself that I can be intentional in everything that I do (this includes having fun, being with family, and even doomscrolling).
I agree that it can be a chore, but more like, I'll use a real computer for serious tasks like doing my taxes, administration, planning vacations, etc.
Same as in every other bubble:
Housing is insanely expensive,
Dating sucks,
That friend that just got rich,
So and so company just got funded,
This event coming up,
When's the bubble going to burst
The detection problem is genuinely hard. Even desktop AI agents I've been working with recently can control Spotify, fill forms, navigate apps — all indistinguishable from human interaction at the OS level. If that's hard to detect at the application layer, detecting AI-generated music at the audio layer seems like a cat and mouse game that Tidal will struggle to win without self-reporting from uploaders.
Unless they directly embed promotions in it. I could see this being an avenue for brand-derived fake artists. I wonder if they already have a policy for that and I wonder why it wouldn’t apply to, say, the beastie boys talking about adidas.
LLMs are well suited to my (some would say annoyingly) curious nature.
when i get an answer, and my first instinct is to ask a ton of follow-ups and "what about"s. i've learned to tamp this down with fellow humans, but with LLMs its great because most of the time the response is "you're right, something doesn't add up... let me try again". i think we eventually converge on to something reasonably true
I am not a doctor or psychologist or anything so please take everything below with a grain of salt
I was like you in my 20s, I could drink a lot of caffeine without any effects at all. I was diagnosed with ADHD around 28. At the time my doctor told me that my high caffeine intake was maybe an unconscious way of trying to wrangle with my ADHD, because the treatment for that is stimulants.
Once I started my meds, even a low dose, I basically didn't want coffee anymore. It made a huge difference in my life
Not trying to diagnose you with anything, I just always like to tell heavy coffee drinkers my story in case it might help them if they're feeling like something is off
Part of this is modern house construction too (at least where I live in Europe); the living room / kitchen is just one big room, and upstairs there's two bedrooms (one of which can be split up).
I simply don't have the space to dedicate a room for one specific function. I'd love to be able to e.g. have a guest/living room with no tech, an office room for working, etc on top of separate bedrooms for everyone, but that's only possible now in older houses starting at €600,000 in the more remote parts of the country.
I agree. But it's not clear to me that the downsides of this outweigh the upsides.
The government has control over many areas of life, and in most cases I feel that to be on balance a good thing, even though governments can be corrupt or inefficient.
Consider some other domain, like roads. In every country, the government issues licenses that include photographic ID to residents to drive on roads; driving without a license is illegal and can result in fines or even imprisonment. But this level of government control feels normal to people, and most would say the safety benefits outweigh the government interference.
How are banks supposed to know if Ellie Piee is a real person?
Actually
How is Google supposed to know if Ellie Piee is a real person when Ellie Piee pays for a Google product? Or otherwise uses a Google service that requires identity
There is only zero incentive if the filter detects AI music reliably. It's still a race between effective detection and cost to generate content, isn't it?
That no one has actually solved the underlying problem at all, and the generation of the example LLM has no bearing on the nature of the fundamental problem.
The dominance of finance capital over industrial capital reaching its absurd conclusion. NFT mania was only possible because we don't make anything here, no one has a serious plan to reshore and start making things here again, and we can't indefinitely maintain control of production we've exported to the 3rd world indefinitely. So you might as well play these symbolic games and increase your slice of the pie while the music is still playing.
the more I think about what intelligence really is and what it is about humans that AIs seem unable to replicate, the closer I come to the conclusion that personality is a huge component of intelligence. Certain problem spaces have a structure such that personality differences are stripped away, like in math problems for example, but more and more I am genuinely starting to believe that personality drives intelligence.
There is an undeniable mechanical / logical / objective component to intelligence that acts as the machine to get answers, but I am becoming ever increasingly convinced that you cannot actually separate this machine from personality and still perform at the highest level it is capable of. Communication has its own intelligence limits, and I do not think the marketing angle of "putting intelligence on a meter for you to buy" is going to be an actual real application of intelligence. Not without also outsourcing your personality or being satisfied with a flanderized impersonator of yourself as part of the intelligence
it may seem like this sort of thing should be ignorable for analyzing an MRI, that it's an objective conclusion. But medicine is not really as black and white as it seems. Doctors often have different opinions and they are credible. scans are not oracles, interpretation is involved, as well as a measurement of faith in what the patients body is able to do on its own and what it cant. hard to describe in a simple comment, but the point is that medical diagnosis are not exaclty something that can be packaged into perfect products for consumption to turn into the 1 and only treatment that's best for you