The video definitely wouldn't be over 50m if she was targeting views. 11m -15m is where you catch a lot of people repeating and bloviating 3m of content to hit that sweet spot of the algorithm. It's sad you can't appreciate when someone puts passion into a project.
This is the damage AI does to society. It robs talented people of appreciation. A phenomenal singer? Nah she just uses auto tune obviously. Great speech? Nah obviously LLM helped. Besides I don't have time to read it anyway. All I want is the summary.
I don't consider AI to threaten "damage to society" the way you seem to, but I did find it interesting to think about how ridiculously well-produced the video was, and what that might signify in the future.
I kept squinting and scrutinizing it, looking for signs that it was rendered by a video model. Loss of coherence in long shots with continuity flaws between them, unrealistic renderings of obscure objects and hardware, inconsistent textures for skin and clothing, that sort of thing... nope, it was all real, just the result of a lot of hard work and attention to detail.
Trouble is, this degree of perfection is itself unrealistic and distracting in a Goodhart's Law sense. Musicians complain when a drum track is too-perfectly quantized, or when vocals and instruments always stay in tune to within a fraction of a hertz, and I do have to wonder if that's a hazard here. I guess that's where you're coming from? If you wanted to train an AI model to create this type of content, this is exactly what you would want to use as source material. And at that point, success means all that effort is duplicated (or rather simulated) effortlessly.
So will that discourage the next-generation of LaurieWireds from even trying? Or are we going to see content creators deliberately back away from perfect production values, in order to appear more authentic?
Yes, I do want the summary because my time is (also) valuable. There is a reason why book covers have synopses, to figure out whether it's worth reading the book in the first place.
In this case the useful info in the book could be distilled down to the cover blurb.
This video really should have been two videos anyway. One to describe how DRAM works (old hat to some of us nerds, but interesting and new to lots of others), and the second one to explain how she got around the refresh interval. Then nerds could skip the first one completely. In reality the two videos could be about 5 minutes each.
This brings up a point I often ponder: should the records of horrific criminals be cancelled? Consider the two extremes:
A) artist is never played again, no more royalties are paid. Nobody gets to enjoy the music.
B) the artist's estate is sold to a victims compensation trust, that collects, say, $4m/year that gets distributed to victims and charities. You still hear their song occasionally on the radio and gradually forget about their plight over the years.
And yet most homes and offices are full of them. Laptop batteries don't usually catch fire. At the colos I am familiar with (which have pretty strict rules, generally), you can have equipment with batteries as long as you regularly inspect them.
A Boeing 777 burns 300g of fuel per second per engine, while taxiing on the ground... so 2 gallons gets you somewhere between 10 and 15 seconds of taxiing.
I'm not denying bill did improper sexual things. But I think his goal was to evade taxes, which Epstein likely helped out with. In return, bill was likely blackmailed for his access to Microsoft, which benefits Israel.
Now you say that and it's an interesting assertion. The Chinese certainly will tell you that they are in a war. And will also say that America is in a war.
Americans a few years ago defined a "continuum of conflict" consisting of competition, crisis, and conflict (sometimes you see cooperation). America will tell you that we are in competition with China, which is a type of conflict.
We're not in a military war with them...yet (and maybe Trump would just let them take Taiwan; who knows).
We are definitely in an economic "war" with them, basically outright banning their automotive industry from gaining a foothold in the US and doing things like pressuring Nvidia to limit exports to them.
yeah, so Apple and Ford should hire mercenaries to defend Taiwan. Not our military.
And if we are in "economic war" then bring manufacturing back to the rust belt. Give people good-paying wages again. Stop sending empty containers across the ocean when we are pressured about "climate change". Notice how the Epstein class never gets implored to change their status quo. But we need to drive EVs or else the polar bears drown.
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