It’s amazing to me how fast the executive class jumped on the notion of replacing their workers, although it was obviously too early to know. The idea makes them salivate so much that they showed their hand immediately like children before candy.
I think the class divide will take a long time to recover. Basically every boss in the world declared to the public, including their own employees, how eager they are to just fire the lot of them.
What’s “true AGI”? Why would it need introspection and self awareness? Those are entirely different things. Is persistence necessary to perform cognitive tasks? So someone with ante retrograde amnesia couldn’t be said to be generally intelligent?
Those things are tricky to define and interesting to think about. It’s rather boring to reduce them to broad statements and catch phrases.
I remember 15 years ago being in a club in Acapulco and there was this old Mexican guy just going around with a modified car battery and two handles. He’d offer the handles to you then turn this big knob that controlled the voltage. And then he’d ask for a tip! It was so stupid.
What a strange take. That’s like saying you couldn’t be trotskyist and embrace industry in 1919.
Didn’t they also obliterate their free cash flow?
Do they get any listens, tho ? Generating thousands of songs is not quick or cheap, and then if you have to pay for listens i don’t see how that can be profitable. How many of those songs even make the monetization cutoff ?
It’s kind of tinfoil hat but i’ve always suspected this kind of story was covert marketing from Suno themselves. I’m sure they would love to actually make a dent in the music world like that and it would make their investors look real smart. But maybe the real story is that they’ve raised 700 millions and they barely exist in their own industry.
That being said, I hope they get fucked in court again.
Are people still using Suno? I swear it’s been at least a year since I last heard about them. The novelty effect faded pretty quick, it seems.
I think my latest physical purchase was the orange box some 20 years ago. And that was only because I was abroad and it was stupid cheap.
Yeah that’s a bit aspirational to my taste. Sure a script is just a list of instructions but when you start adding complex data and network hops and async work there are definitely “non-deterministic” behaviors that will emerge. Ultimately yes everything is ones and zeroes and there is probably an explanation but it will be something stupid and contrived.
As a developer you lay out a plan for what should generally happen but there’s no way you can anticipate all the micro variations that happen in production. It’s like any kind of real life plan, really.
I think there’s a categorical issue in how this whole story is framed, at least for the examples that have been cited by the booksellers themselves. These books are “rare” because they are low-print and have basically no demand, think obsolete technical books from the 60s or university theses printed at 100 copies. This kind of books are routinely destroyed by booksellers, and even publishers, because keeping inventory is expensive and nobody is buying or reading them. That’s how AI companies are able to buy them for pennies on the dollar, and whatever they don’t buy is probably eligible for recycling or burning by the seller/publisher anyway.
It’s basically a way to slurp up a few billion tokens for cheap. They’re destroying the copies by chopping off the spine and feeding the loose pages into page-fed scanners, which is way less expensive than those non-destructive scanning robots, but this doesn’t work on really old books from previous centuries as the paper is different and fragile and will jam your scanner constantly.
What they’re looking for is industrially-produced books with low circulation, not because they are culturally valuable but because they contain prose that hasn’t yet been digitized and that’s what they need for pre-training.
Like most American “solutions” it’s a very good idea from a technical point of view but a terrible societal choice
I tried resisting the urge, but the dad in me is too strong
Sounds complicated, I’ll ask Claude to do it for me 👌
I don’t really understand that line of reasoning. By definition if genai code is garbage, a human made competitor would be better. Why can’t it stand on its own qualities rather than rely on blanket banning the alternative?
I’d say that’s more like trying to solve mental illness by making it illegal to exploit and profit from it
I’m always surprised when a band mate wants to share a song with me and they whip up their phone and absolutely tolerate 45s of ads before the music starts
I don’t think the AI ran npm run destroy-production --irreversible. Most probably it ran npm run test and the .env happened to point to production, which is 100% on the dev who put it there.
Funny cause there’s a similar meme in France about a tv host who used to repeat “BUT DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS” with an exaggerated Arabic “rrramas” pronunciation
The ruling explicitly says that the settlement never had any legal standing. There is nothing to nullify.
I remember reading this in one of our class books when I was maybe eleven and it damn right fucked me up. I was so moved by the lonesome atmosphere, and I suspect it’s one of the early things that made me so much into post apo a few years later.
Bradbury was a rare voice in classic sci fi, and one of my all time favorites.