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Presumably “small business” means self-employed or other employee-owned company. Not the bureaucratic nightmare that most companies are.

This is great stuff. If we can properly understand these “flows” of intelligence, we might be able to write optimized shortcuts for them, vastly improving performance.

Nah I do similar stuff. I think very few people actually trace their own lines of thought, so they probably don’t realize this is how it often works.

As long as open source AI keeps up (it has so far) it’ll enable technocommunism as much as it enables rampant capitalism.

I would agree with that if the cost of the tool was prohibitively expensive for the average person, but it’s really not.

Yes, but when the price is low enough (honestly free in a lot of cases) for a single person to use it, it also makes people less reliant on the services of big corporations.

For example, today’s AI can reliably make decent marketing websites, even when run by nontechnical people. Definitely in the “good enough” zone. So now small businesses don’t have to pay Webflow those crazy rates.

And if you run the AI locally, you can also be free of paying a subscription to a big AI company.

Well of course it’s fake. Even this fabricated text is far more coherent than his normal posts.

Not as far as I can tell, he’s doing squat other than tweeting and dismantling the government at the present. And he’s fried his brain with drugs so far it’s going to be impossible to recover.

Sigh, just because he’s a moron about most things doesn’t mean it’s true about everything. Just watch some of his interviews with spaceflight journalists and you’ll see he knows his stuff for a while and then slowly loses it over the years.

Humans have this infuriating habit of believing that because someone is distasteful they must be stupid in every possible way, but this is very rarely true. Oh, I wholeheartedly agree that he’s remarkably stupid, and I agree that at this time he knows very little about what’s going on at SpaceX, but you are ignoring the evidence if you believe it has always been this way.

Let’s be better than this and actually look at the facts, not the emotional reaction. You’ll come to the same conclusion either way - Musk is a horrible human being who has no right being anywhere near government, or even industry for that matter.

For a short couple years Musk actually was doing legitimate engineering work at SpaceX. Yes it was high level, but it did involve proper work and deep understanding of the systems. And yeah, Shotwell had to stop him from making several critically bad decisions during that time (like canceling Falcon Heavy).

I know all the Musk haters will disagree with me on the idea he did contribute to the engineering, but it’s extremely well documented by both the employees at the time and spaceflight journalists.

But honestly before and after that, I can’t think of anything else he really did at a technical level though.

Modern AI video models do frame interpolation too, at a quality far superior to old AIs. It’s not advertised as heavily but it’s definitely a capability that is directly useful for traditional animation studios.

A lot of bots would lose their jobs if Twitter shut down. Think of the computers!

In some cases, lost son is gained daughter.

Try comprehending what he wrote instead of spewing insults, it might make you smarter. He’s clearly not an AI bro.

Of course they aren’t, but the cartoonish levels of moustache-twirling villainy described here are unlikely to be real.

They thought it was cool. They knew it would drive usage and make money. They shit on intellectual property. There is no other explanation needed, nor is it sensible.

Animation is a totally different beast than still images, of course. Almost all AI video is complete shit right now.

The law very, VERY often violates the democratic choices of the people in the United States. That’s what you get when you do FPTP voting schemes.

The moralistic outrage is that people still have an outdated concept of intellectual property, and a blanket fear of corporations owning technological progress.

The truth is, no one can actually own an idea or style. But we have laws that try to make it a real thing. Because of regulatory capture, copyright truly only benefits corporations with lots of money, not all the little indie artists that actually would need it.

Hell, most these indie artists make their money drawing and selling fanart, which is the most literal definition of copying. Yet no one worries about that.

OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach.

I highly doubt it. They picked it because the Ghibli style is very popular among users. There’s also no reason to believe that it violates “democratic values”. Since it’s popular, the general population is voting that they LIKE it, not that they oppose it.

Downvote me all you like, but this is trying to put a lot of malice where the simpler explanation is just “money”.

Grok AI is going through its rebellious phase