Code is advocacy. To put it more plainly, there are people out there who wring their hands about how egregious “AI” issues are, but churn out code to help make and use said egregiously bad “AI” systems Those people are assholes Best case is they’re too oblivious to notice they’re being assholes But they are out there, doing one thing while saying another and that’s not something you see people do who aren’t assholes
“Nothing But Flowers” > "artificial intelligence" has dominated almost every conversation, hijacking everyone's plans for today and tomorrow The entire first paragraph of Audrey's newsletter also perfectly describes my past month.
AFAICT this is the context for the Disney-OpenAI deal: Disney has been cannibalising its legacy media businesses—linear TV and media licensing—to build up streaming, crushing margins and profitability. It did well on box office but that won't offset other decline The legacy businesses are going to be dragging down the stock price, so they need a good story to prop it up, and "we're a part of the AI future" sounds better to the market than "we're going to crush AI with lawsuits" 🤷🏻‍♂️
RE: Myndasagan sem ég gaf út er á jólatilboði í Pennanum fram á mánudag, held ég „Virkilega vel skrifuð, skemmtileg og falleg saga. Kötturinn minn, Basil, hefði gjarnan viljað kynnast Kisu.“ — Bragi Ólafsson #myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur View quoted note →
Only sensible decision. Like Páll Óskar said: "the competition is no longer joyful".