When in politics, in exchange for a ministerial car, he reneged on his pledge on student grants, and in coalition enabled a punishing austerity programme and the prime minister who delivered the Brexit referendum.
It would be wise to treat everything he says or supports with the utmost circumspection.
AI is clearly a net negative to humanity in its current form, and almost certainly all future forms.
The fact that you refer to an actual human being as “some artist” betrays the absolute disdain you hold for humanity and in my opinion should disqualify you from polite discourse of any kind.
> AI is clearly a net negative to humanity in its current form, and almost certainly all future forms.
I'm going to make an equally supported and valid statement here and say AI is clearly a net positive to humanity in its current form, and almost certainly all future forms.
You should consider providing a less hyperbolic point to argue if you are looking to have any kind of productive or healthy discussion on the internet.
There I fixed it for you. If it's such a net benefit to humanity governments should provide 6-months-behind-the-state-of-the-art-model for free to the public to make up for the highway robbery of its citizens' lifelong digital output.
If your premise was right, it makes even less sense as a justification for using other peoples' IP without compensation.
AI companies are for profit organizations in a largely capitalist world. If what they're providing is so massively more valuable to humanity than artists' IP, then the AI companies should easily be able to monetize that value in a way that allows them to fairly compensate the artists for the crucial role they're apparently playing in AI development.
Of course scale is the real problem here, because we're not just talking about AI companies compensating "some artists", but likely "all artists". This probably is financially untenable since the current value AI is providing to society seems unlikely to be greater than the value of all IP that exists in the world.
But that's not some critical feature of AI, it just speaks to the way current AI models work where you take every bit of text and images that exists and throw it into a data center full of GPUs to burn through a large city's worth of electricity until something approximating human text and image generation pops out. Arguably that approach is driven by the fact that GPUs and electricity are affordable and the input data is "free" if you're willing to steal it. I see no reason to believe less wasteful models couldn't produce good results without requiring the input being all human knowledge, and you'd save some electricity and resources in the meantime.
Edit: I'm not an AI researcher, but I also think incentivizing more efficient approaches to AI model development and training might yield more human-like AI (i.e. actual AI rather than turbo charged autocomplete). Humans also develop our cognitive abilities by absorbing external information but we manage to do it by absorbing a fraction of the information as a large-scale AI model with significantly better results. Focusing on whatever difference is behind that rather than building ever larger data centers with ever more powerful GPUs might be an interesting shift.
I just turned 30, and I'm now freelance producing. I'm attached to a lot of great projects in development. The next stage of my business needs capital to grow efficiently. The term on my contracts have a limited window, so I'll need to move as quickly as possible. More capital will also allow me to continue to develop the IP rights I've acquired at the highest level, with the highest caliber of partners.
I don't want my website to be obnoxious.
I need it to validate me and legitimize me, especially when I do cold-outreach via e-mail, and folks then have to Google me to see if I'm someone who's legitimate. So my website has my bio and resume.
But I'm wondering if there's some psychological things I'm missing from what a great web page can do for a freelance producer like myself.
I also am not the most web savvy person, or if I can be, I just don't have too much time to curate something.
I have a preference for minimalism.
I built all of this in Canva. I understand that might limit my SEO growth.
But most folks only find my website from my Instagram account (@deboulay.mxf), my Linkedin (@mrdeboulay), my X page (@mrdeboulay), or from the domain that's in my e-mail (msg@danieldeboulay.com).
I don't know if more inbound calls is what I need. So SEO isn't extremely my concern, but I'm open to some advice on all of this because I'm only thirty years old and eager to learn.
For other professions, the website doesn't matter. But if you want to raise capital, you shoud hire a wed designer or at least start with a professional template.
Each link should be a photo with a big title and a small description. It's a nightmare for me to present my work visually, but I think in your work that is easy and you have plenty of photos in instagram and the other sites.
The icon in the link to instagram is weird. Use the standard one.
The icon in the link to likedin is weird. Use the standard one. I see only a loginwall. Is it possible to link to your short visible profile?
> I have a preference for minimalism.
Scratch that. People like photos, specially for social validation.
I’ll look for a template with the right visuals that I can present. I think I can present a visual presentation of some of my deals. I think that’s smart.
I'd say "it sucks" now because there is some obtuse text and links to LinkedIn and Instagram that are behind a register wall.
Someone has to be able to read this site and immediately understand something about you. This site makes it look like you're self-centered and not interested in or able to communicate.
I'm a partner in an Article 8 ESG fund/studio (KRING Ventures) here in Denmark. We definitely qualify as ethical and we hope to make a financial return at the same time. There is also a concept of creating "Zebras" not Unicorns and that's where we focus.
Be sure to hear other side of the ESG, namely Aswath Damodaran's take on it [1] - although it's heavy on the financial/finance side. That's just one video, but you can find more about his position.
argue for a lower discount (20-30%) by emphasizing the company’s growth and recent valuation from the Series A round, which shows that your shares still have strong potential value even without the extra protections
Thanks for the suggestion but Voicedream is garbage. There's no pagination for books so it's a massive, scrollable doc when I upload an ePub. Even worse, the TTS sounds like it's from the 90s and doesn't have the latest human sounding voices that OpenAI has.
