Eh I’ve done all kinds and sure some are more basic and therefore easier and quicker than others but not by enough to matter in this case. You’re right that it’s all about the economy of scale issue, and they can duplicate success better than I can and I’ve been doing it for years.

I love making bread. I’ve made a lot of bread. Bread takes hours. The best loaf of bread I’ve ever made I could have gotten for a few dollars at a store, and it would probably be better. Having said that bread makers are the closest thing to a food replicator you can get, throw some ingredients in, push a button, come back in a few hours and bam, fresh loaf of bread.

That’s why I only drive automatics. 1 hand to eat and drink, 1 hand to flip people off, 1 knee to steer, and 1 foot on the gas.

So you can dip on the go, I like this.

No no, this makes sense. The world’s opinion of us is already as low as it can possibly get, this can only help. Not likely but how much worse could it get?

Look I’m not saying some part of me isn’t interested in seeing what this would have looked like, but Undiscovered Country is one of my favorites so I’m glad we got that.

I have an app for that, I mostly just do the daily rewards now tho.

“And do not call me Shirley, sir.”

Hand to God thought this was an early makeup test for the Borg.

Yeah baby, show me dat bottom line.

Prove it.

Oh my no, I tell the same jokes over and over no matter how much my family complains, because I have the will to enjoy their pained responses no matter how much it annoys them.

Well I for one spent a lot of time on LemmyNSFW and can confidently state that I never once saw a whale wearing shoes on it, so they must have been doing something right.

Unfortunately true, there will always be a workaround.

Good point, because of privacy protection laws, exactly the kind of laws we would need to pass to do something about this issue.

That’s literally the point I’m making. In some places it is common place to see streamers broadcasting in public, and I’ve seen plenty of videos of not as obvious streaming as well. This will continue that trend, and the question is whether we pass laws to change that. The technology only makes it more accessible.

That’s… not even close to what I’m saying. That’s like saying using computers to steal money is illegal therefore using computers is illegal. Someone walking around with a camera is fairly commonplace, the problem is this tech makes it less easy to see and more accessible, which is a problem because of the number of people who would want to use it for something illegal. Remember back when they started making digital cameras which could take pictures silently, which was a big privacy issue? Then they started making mandatory sound effects when a picture was taken… until they stopped doing that?

Yeah that’s kinda my point.

Here’s the problem, it’s not doing anything people already couldn’t and weren’t doing, it’s just making it a lot easier and making it more widely available. Honestly it’s the exact same issue with “AI”, every bad aspect about it was already being done with existing LLMs, they were just the domain of a much smaller subset of people.

I mean, it got the point across and you know they laugh about that every time they think of it.