I think it’s interesting how “maximizing for engagement” inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?
Fedora is a solid choice. I recommend Kinoite because it’s familiar to Windows users and impossible to break.
…Propaganda? Cnet?
Well said. I think AI “art” is really best considered just a form of entertainment since there is no human perspective put into it. Adam Savage said it best (paraphrasing here) “In order for me to be interested in a work of art it needs to be coming from a point of view. I don’t see anything resembling a point of view with AI.”
Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:
It doesn’t shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but “multiplied tens of times”? A recent comment me chuckle:
(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).