Humans, you know, are also "trained" as they grow up. And the new generations, growing up much more exposed to the AI-generated media from the earliest ages, may as well end up finding AI porn just as — if not more — sexy as human-produced porn. That too is a speculation, yes, but considering the whole history of humanity full of vast shifts in cultural and aesthetic norms, it's a very mild speculation.
While I hesitate to use it in this context, reminds of one of Planck's principle - "progress, on funeral at a time"
Not necessarily - bankruptcy is not the same as defaulting. Bankruptcy, or threatening it, would be an effort to prevent default and instead renegotiate the existing debt, likely with lenders taking a signficant haircut.
Rivian made these, designed in collaboration with Amazon. There are a few points that make this a straightforward choice from an outsider's perspective.
- There's the efficiency and morale improvements, which others mentioned.
- There's also the better data tracking they'll have to make future improvements on all aspects of the delivery process.
- Amazon purchased 100,000 of these as well as equity (warrants I assume) in Rivian, so they received some of the upside after helping Rivian scale.
- Finally, I believe most (all?) of these delivery companies are contracted by Amazon and lease the vehicles from Amazon, so I'm sure they can make the unit economics work.