I make-a the web sites.
Currently working with:
- thecurrentla.com
- whenwemesh.com
| Website | https://birdsong.dev |
| Github | https://github.com/cbirdsong |
| Bluesky | https://bsky.app/profile/cbi.rds.ong |
To put this differently: without robust privacy safeguards there is _no such thing as a free market_.
None.
If everyone can be specifically, individually targeted then everyone can be maximally extracted and competition that materially drives prices downwards for end-of-chain humans doesn't exist. The only competition that exists is in the profile-and-extract arms race. Everyone else gets bled out.
I will say this again: if the actual people who build these systems, those comfortable, very well paid engineers, managers, directors responsible for their design and operation, if they all had to spend one week every quarter and maybe one day a month doing the work they foist off on people paid pennies an hour in underdeveloped, overexploited countries on the far side of the planet, Facebook would not exist in a year.
And they all fucking know it.
Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.
Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.
Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!
So. Everybody knows that "AI" is the future and inevitable and everyone loves it.
That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products:
But hey, those are very serious businesses, they must have done their research and run their cost-benefit analyses to ensure they spend their money wisely, right? Quote:
"Creators can charge up to $100,000 per post, Eckstein said.
“Some of these bigger companies have so much money to spend,” he said, “that they don’t care to negotiate.”"
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"Throughout the history of software development, employers have consistently preferred to fund tools that deskill and attempt to abstract expertise away over tools that genuinely improve productivity and the quality of the output, but also happen to require expertise and skill.
This has worked so far because the software industry is usually flooded with money."
- Catching up with @baldur's essay from earlier this year: *"React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity"*
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
A vision for a new WordPress era WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alone for a bit until after the holiday break, until, last night, Matt imposed a holiday break on us all. ... Read more
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