AI music and art are terrible but somehow there are even worse use cases of these AI models, imo.
100% realistic AI video has basically no legitimate use case other than misinformation. Yes some AI videos can be humorous but these are generally not realistic. Realistic AI video should probably be illegal in many cases, in fact.
AI voice acting has no legitimate use case other than putting voice actors out of work, who happen to actually enjoy their jobs and who provide enjoyment to fans of animation, such as myself. Yes, I’m aware that AI voice models can be used to solve boring work like customer service, but I mean AI voice acting specifically. And this doesn’t even include the potential abuse due to impersonation.
I refer to AI video and AI voice acting as anti-inventions. Because an invention is generally defined by two things: its novelty and its utility in making the world better. Both of these things are novel, but they actively make the world worse. They provide zero positive utility and only negative utility. It’s actually quite impressive that such a tool could exist in consumer tech.
There are very serious mathematicians who refuse to use AI because they rightfully are concerned about the skill loss and harm overall. If anything it makes more sense for a mathematician to avoid AI than a software engineer though personally I think software engineers should use it sparingly as well.
Interesting to see this now, I was thinking of switching to a new platform for tasks and notes because Evernote’s free tier is quite limited and Apple Reminders often doesn’t even show the correct reminder if there are multiple open. I was just reading about Evernote’s profitability last night.
Reminders has been perpetually flakey, particularly around new OS releases and if your iPhone/Watch/iPad/Mac are in different states of latest vs non-latest OS.
>What basis do you have for this claim? People make these claims constantly so confidently, but wherever I look all I see is that dictators have always been willing to make their nations incredibly poor.
Iran lost $17 billion in economic activity by cutting off the entire internet a few years ago for a week. They have not done that this time, making internet outages at specific times of day, etc.
If all that is desired is the spoken text, most subtitle sites have fairly accurate copies of the official subtitles or even better than original subtitles for stuff that is very popular. For instance sometimes I see homophones for the correct words or abbreviated text versions for rapidly spoken speech even in the official subtitles for streaming shows. Websites like subscene.com and opensubtitles.org are pretty active.
A funny edge case I've found in one of the most popular music services (Last.fm). There is an instrumental post-rock ish band called Collections of Colonies of Bees and they have an album where almost all the tracks have the same name; they are all titled "Fun" except for the last track titled "Funeral". https://open.spotify.com/album/0LP8DTy4amlLIVXGOjvCo2?si=HJ3...
This has caused last.fm to think "Fun" is one of my most played songs of the year even though they were all separate tracks.
Last.fm doesn't allow "untitled", "various artists", "track 01" and other titles that may suggest the song is incorrectly tagged. This leads, of course, to edge cases where an artist has a track named "untitled" and it can't be scrobbled.
Moreover, last.fm also has an issue with unicode characters and some artists/albums may have two or more different profiles. It's a mess!
I actually was more traumatized when I discovered that artists with the same name are filed under the same ‘profile’, and just have a textual explanation that they are actually different. You'd think that a service purporting to do ‘big data’ processing could grab discographies off Discogs or something, and compare the album titles.
Anyway, personally I long since abandoned Last.fm in favor of more hands-on discovery.
I would guess that the problem only appears if it's the same artist and same album ID. Not sure if techno artists use "Untitled" multiple times on the same album, haha.
Oh, easily—whole careers are probably made of ‘untitled’ tracks. Afaik, in edm a more common identifier for such unnamed records and tracks is the catalog number and track number or the side (for a single).
Hinge has all sorts of dark patterns to keep you swiping on the app as long as possible. Recently they added some feature called Standouts that removes the "best" matches from your ability to match, so you have to wait until those matches drop from the exclusive-only bin. The idea behind limiting max likes is nice (10), but they also have some ranking algorithm that only starts showing your preferred matches near the end of your match limit, extremely subtle but I noticed it started making me feel like I was anxious about preserving my bin of likes. It's all a money game to these Match companies and pretty obvious why people are burning out on all the ghosting / terrible interactions etc.
100% realistic AI video has basically no legitimate use case other than misinformation. Yes some AI videos can be humorous but these are generally not realistic. Realistic AI video should probably be illegal in many cases, in fact.
AI voice acting has no legitimate use case other than putting voice actors out of work, who happen to actually enjoy their jobs and who provide enjoyment to fans of animation, such as myself. Yes, I’m aware that AI voice models can be used to solve boring work like customer service, but I mean AI voice acting specifically. And this doesn’t even include the potential abuse due to impersonation.
I refer to AI video and AI voice acting as anti-inventions. Because an invention is generally defined by two things: its novelty and its utility in making the world better. Both of these things are novel, but they actively make the world worse. They provide zero positive utility and only negative utility. It’s actually quite impressive that such a tool could exist in consumer tech.
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