I actually wonder if this will kill off the social apps and the bragging that happens. It will be flooded by people faking themselves doing the unimaginable.
This is also my thesis. The internet is going to be saturated with AI slop indiscernible from real content. Once it reaches a tipping point, there will no longer be much of a reason to consume the content at all. I think social networks that can authenticate video/photo/text content as human-created will be a major trend in a few years.
I have no clue if the reactions are real, but there are some videos online of people showing their grandparents gameplay from Grand Theft Auto games trying to convince them that it is real footage. The point of the videos is to laugh at their reactions where they question if it really happened, etc.
Maybe this will result in something similar, but it can affect more people who aren’t as wary.
I regularly get AI movie recaps on my shorts and I just eat it up.
The very fact that I (or billions of others) waste time on shorts is an issue. I don't even play games anymore, it's just shorts. That is a concerning rewiring of the brain :/
Guess what I`m trying to say is that, there is a market out there. It's not pretty, but there certainly is.
Will keep trying to not watch these damn shorts...
Yes, I wonder if the content distribution networks that call themselves "social networks" can even survive something like this.
Of course, the ones focusing on the content can always editorialize the spam out. And in real social networks you ask your friends to stop making that much slop. But this can be finally the end of Facebook-like stuff.
I've been wanting to create a similar holiday optimizer tool myself, but what you've done is marvelous! Do you take requests for new countries? I see that you're using https://date.nager.at/ as the source and country is listed, so perhaps it's easily doable?
Interesting side effect of having to choose calendar years is that it misses the break between Xmas and New Years' Day that is often a good-value time to take off (and many people would take off anyway).
Nvidia seem to be one step ahead of this and you can see their platform efforts are pushing towards creating large volumes of compute that are easy to manage for whatever your compute requirements are, be that training, inference or whatever comes next and whatever form. People are maybe tackling some of these areas in isolation but you do not want to build datacenters where everything is ringfenced per task or usage.
Tech companies are valued higher because lots of people think there's still room for the big tech companies to consolidate market share and for the market itself to grow, especially as they all race towards AI. Low interest rates, tech and AI hype add to it.
Funny timing though, today NVDA lost $589 billion in market cap as the market got spooked.
These VC’s are already lining up the exit as they are investing. They all sit on the boards of major corps and grease the acquisitions all the way through. The hit rate of the top funds is all about connections and enablement.
I think it's a fascinating question whether the VCs that are still somehow pushing Blockchain stuff hard really think it's a good idea, or just need the regulatory framework and perception to be right so they can make a profitable exit and dump the stock into teacher's pension funds and 401ks…
