as always… any ban of this type is lazy virtue signalling.
it’s proving unsuccessful in australia and it’ll be unsuccessful in the uk. it’s way too easy to circumvent with vpns and social media is not going to prevent it because it’s not in their interest.
governments should put their thinking cap on and regulate the addicting ux patterns that social media uses…
The people pushing the “AI is heavily subsidised” narrative don’t realise it actually flatters Anthropic and OpenAI more than the alternative.
If it is subsidised, fine – the incumbents absorb the losses, or lean on hyperscalers like Google or Microsoft who can cross-subsidise across other revenue streams. But if it isn’t, that’s the worse outcome for them: inference is just cheap, competition kicks in, prices crater, end users win.
Either way, local models win. If the incumbents are forced to turn a profit, pricing goes up and as local compute gets good enough to handle most use cases, people flock to it. And if inference is just cheap, that means the compute requirements are lower than we thought, and local hardware gets there even faster.
Bullish on local either way. We’ll find out once the Anthropic S-1 drops.
You got Deutsche Bahned. IF anyone watches Jet Lag The Game on YouTube, they play hide and seek games around Europe, and whenever they're on a Deutsche Bahn something almost always goes awry.
This is cool! Just hosted a stream but there were a few bugs/issues.
1. Streamed via Blackhole and music was constantly slowing down for me, not sure if listeners had similar experience.
2. Couldn't unmute my mic so you could hear me breathing in the bg at times.
3. If I refreshed the page I couldn't go back to hosting my room. How can I do this?
4. If I blocked my mic all music stopped and re-adding it wouldn't go back to streaming.
It was inevitable. Netflix rose thanks to studios and distributors selling them rights to content for peanuts. Streaming wasn’t taken seriously as it wasn’t a main source of revenue. Some years later and it’s a completely different story. Demand for streaming sky-rocketed, digital rights value increased and now every studio wants to create their own walled gardens.
Complacency is the enemy of innovation. So many other chat clients are way better, yet WhatsApp is irreplaceable because it enjoys the competitive advantage of network effects.