KatherinaReichelt

The average American generates about $1,605 a year in advertising value. A 35- to 44-year-old man in Bozeman, MT, without children, using a desktop and making high-value corporate searches, generates an estimated $17,929.30. An 18- to 24-year-old father in Fort Smith, AR, using an Android phone and making low-value searches, generates $31.05.

Just imagine how much people have to buy through ads to justify this amount of ad spending.

I know that text to speech does work without AI, but the modern AI-based models are so much better.

Yeah, that really does not look good. Something like that should never have been released in that state and that is a serious problem with processes.

Yeah, and the worst thing about this is that Github is critical infrastructure. If Github goes down the drain, so many devs and projects will be affected

People really have no idea what AI is. And in many cases those "AI features" are just machine learning. I'm currently running Ubuntu and I have several AI features running. One of them then is Handy.comptuer and it's a really nice push to talk voice recognition software. I'm dictating this post with it and it's awesome.

Another feature is image classifications integrated in Immich. It's nice to have your personal photo library and all the pictures that you have ever taken classified so that you can search for "dog" or "hamster" or "John". There are great text-to-speech programs out there. Everything is running locally and stuff like that is really useful to have in your OS. And it won't boil the planet, the energy requirements are quite low.

I really struggle to see the point of posts like this. It is an interesting article about an interesting topic.

I really struggle to see what the benefit of federation would be here. That would mean that you would have several eCommerce pages with a federated product catalog? And if I buy on site A I might buy from someone on site B?

And what is the fundamental difference between the background music styled songs from the YT Audio Library that were done for a small penny in a short time by some underpaid performer vs. something a computer created?

Yeah, about that: In most jurisdictions copyright lasts until 70 years after death. So that means in 2026 that both composer and all performers must have died before 1956. Using such old songs from old recordings is simply not feasible for most companies.

There are also good reasons for people to use AI music. If you just want some music as background in a video you want to post somewhere, that totally is a legal nightmare here where I live. If you're some small business, that is even more nightmarish. Licensing songs is expensive and hard to do, so just generating some ok tune is the best way forward