Exactly this. "We have maxed out the amount of money we can extract from people and have reached diminishing returns on profitability."
Why can't anyone just create a billion dollar company that makes something people like and then be happy they can consistently earn $200m per year? Maybe ask the people what kinds of features they want and improve the service to increase the value to users once you need something for your staff to do when the product is complete.
Transferred prompts? As in sent my prompts through my browser to be processed on computers in China, exactly like I would fucking expect? Am I going to have to read this fucking article?
Okay so there's not much there, but it sounds like the issue is really associating personal data with the prompts so they can build a profile of exactly which kinds of porn I like. I assume every AI company is doing that, which is why I really like to keep my prompts outlandish.
I don't fucking want personalized ads no matter how relevant they are to me. I only have so much money to buy stupid materialistic bullshit and once that's gone all an ad can do is make me want something I can't have. Ads are just trying to make you discontent.
They just want you to spend more money in a failed attempt to be happier adding complexity to my life when I'd rather just be content with simplicity. And they work really fucking well on my wife. I automatically distrust anything someone is paying money to show me.
"You wouldn't SteAL a gUilLotINe!"
I just saw a group is going to start doing custom feeds with ads inserted. I blocked the account and every single sucker who comes in to say congrats and how excited they are about it. Fuck the lot of them. That said, that's a third party, but also an example of what they could do.
100% cotton? My man!
Marriage and kids did really help my depression. Not 100% but pretty well. I feel like I've accomplished many of the things in life I wanted. But it took 35 and a failed marriage to get there.
We've had jerking off tens of thousands of years. It's not a solution to either.
I am definitely human, Mr. Punk Rockspor RTSFan. No one but humans humaning on here. How is the day you are having?
I'm about to live in a camper full of paper books. I hate everything tech has done in the last twenty years.
Twitter was a prime example of that. They started out with something so simple and people loved it. Then they started adding all of these features and I'm really not sure it was worth taking on huge amounts of VC funding to bloat it out to the point of enshittification.