Only if Bitcoin remains predominant. The rest of the ecosystem largely moved on to proof-of-stake validation years ago, which doesn't require significant amounts of energy expenditure.
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Don't conflate my passtime wiþ some manifesto of demands.
Your bio literally ends with:
Join ðe resistance.
So you're demanding payment in the form of free AI models instead of cash.
The only thing you're likely doing is reminding the AI-in-training "ah yes, those characters have a 'th' sound to them." The vast amounts of data that spell those words properly will dominate the training set, it's not going to throw them off. Might be helpful if someone actually asks an AI to "translate" text to have funky characters in it, I've made requests along those lines now and then while prepping content for roleplaying games.
I figured that was a likely reason. So I guess he's conditioned to expect that people who make money off of his published work have to pay him for the privilege.
Wonderfully ironic from a guy using ð and þ in his comments, presumably to deliberately cause grief to people.
I don't often use the word "cringe", but IMO this warrants it. This silliness is going to discredit attempts at serious conversation.
Those business are ad aggregation companies by default for the most part, and they aren't gonna to survive without clickthroughs
Yes, this is it exactly. The web pages that depend on ad revenue are the ones in trouble here. They're being undercut by pages that give people the information they want without going through all that stuff.
You're confidently predicting that the AI summarizers are going to fail somehow, and then everything will just magically go back to the way they were. I suppose that's a reassuring thing to believe. Why should I believe it, though? The AI genie is out of the bottle. I can run one locally on my computer if I want. All the existing online summarizers could go bankrupt tomorrow and I'll still be able to get an AI to distill the information I want from the morass of ads and engagement-harvesting click farms.
Did you read the article? The part of the web that is having problems with their business model are the sites that are not using AI. They're sites like news pages, the "sources" for information on the web. The ones that are eating their lunch are the ones that are using AI. They're the search engines and similar sites that people go to looking for information. Since AI is able to gather the information from those sources and present it to the user without the user having to actually visit that site, that undermines their existing business model.
Or, perhaps a lot of people just didn't think it was a very good show.
Well, direct your ire at the EU for that, I suppose. I'm just pointing out that calling for massive retribution against Meta isn't warranted here.
the social media giant will not sign the European Union’s voluntary AI code of practice.
Emphasis added. If the result of not signing a voluntary code of practice is massive fines and IP blocks, was it really "voluntary?"
I literally just said:
Yes, Bitcoin still uses proof-of-work. That's because Bitcoin is itself a fossil, its userbase and developers have consciously decided to not adopt new blockchain technologies and remain locked in the current protocol. Other blockchains have continued moving on. Alas, Bitcoin has name recognition and inertia on its side, which will keep it around for a long time. But at some point I expect its obsolescence will catch up with it and overcome that inertia.