>“This took about 300–400 generations to get 15 usable clips,” Acetturo writes. “One person, 2-3 days. That’s a 95% cost reduction vs traditional ads.”
My very limited experience with AI image generation .... this fits. If you need a hodgepodge of bits? Yeah sure.
Consistency? I've no idea how to keep AI on track and not accidentally changing anything from generation to generation.
I didn't refuse a job. I just didn't do the bad part ...
Only time this happened to me was one of my first jobs. I worked phone tech support for a consumer PC manufacturer in the mid to late 1990s.
The company decided their 3 year hardware warranty was suddenly now 1 year. They decided this retroactively... I thought it was wrong. I spoke up to my boss, they agreed and passed our thoughts up the chain, but after that it was all yes men so we never heard back.
I was just some on and off again college kid and figured, whatever, so despite the new rule change if I thought they should get hardware (I had access to their original warranty data), they got hardware. I mentioned it to other coworkers and they did the same.
Few years later the company relented after they were sued. Nothing ever came of my actions as far as anyone noticing, or at least not enough to care, pretty sure my boss knew.
Otherwise all my jobs are pretty run of the mill legal activity.
I feel like advertising relies on getting it right "enough" not for everyone and ... they don't care.
Auth and settings people will tell you when it is wrong and that is generally thought of as a problem. Yet advertising doesn't care.
For years Amazon kept showing me women's products. I never once bought any or looked them up but man they were sure I wanted to buy some.
Google thought I was a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan but really I'm a fan of a rival, that's why I had to google a few things about them, but my old google news feed was sure I was a fan... even when they gave me a chance to say "no news about this team" they kept doing it ...
I don't see how "finance it" and hiring a company to go begging for handouts changes the math on rural hospitals.
These subprime patients don't have the money and aren't magically coming up with it because they have LESS insurance under the current administration.
The current administration proposing more cuts just means more rural hospitals will close, there's no magic preventing that if you have an administration that doesn't care / doesn't take input from knowledgeable people.
Would you be willing to put your money where your mouth is on this issue? Bet that the deficit will go up more over the next 4 years compared to the last 4 years?
On January 20, 2021, when President Biden took office, the U.S. national debt stood at approximately $27.8 trillion
By January 20, 2025, as he exited office, the debt had risen to about $36.1–36.2 trillion.
Are you willing to bet that Donald Trump will wrack up more than 8.3 trillion in debt?
Exactly this…it is individualism to the extreme. I don’t think they believe that cutting funding is in the best interest of the collective. But their activists want this so they will do it. It is hard in politics to link cause and effect so the nation as a whole won’t learn from this. I am really heartbroken about all of this. It is possible to reform without burning everything down.
The types of personality that turn into an authoritarian when given power tend to have damaged senses of both internal identity and external reality.
When Trump says "America First" or "Leftists hate our country", what he really means is himself. He's not really lying; "America", in that context, is just an extension of his own ego. Likewise when Putin talks about the "Russian state" or "Russian world", that's something that he conceptualizes as an extension of his own physical body. The channels run by Vlad Vexler on YouTube have an accessible discussion of some of this if you're more interested.
It's not that he wants to hurt federal workers, set back science, or destroy US state capacity. But he does so anyway, because his concept of "America" is one that stops at his own ego. Other people aren't really real to him.
That was at first, then Putin started having them murdered. If you think about it, there isn't much of a reason for the individual that is allowed to have all the power to share it with anybody.
So my, admittedly distant, understanding of modern Russia is that the FSB and Oligarchs have formed a symbiotic relationship, with Putin as its fulcrum.
The FSB secure the oligarchs, and prevent them from being prosecuted for siphoning off billions from the Russian economy. These get distributed down through to FSB leadership as bribes. The whole thing stays loyal to whatever leadership coalition keeps it going. Putin has proved quite good at that.
This arrangement is also underscored by a sort of modern descendent of Chekism. There's an ideological component besides all the corrupt money making.
You do the hard work of getting the oligarchs to buy up and consolidate the private assets first. Then it's even easier to take those large asset bundles.
this article is about NASA.. the history of corruption, authoritarianism and consolidation of power in private hands would be books longer than Balzac.
My understanding is that they are not, potential delays, but not able to completely halt such a program.
It feels like everything in the middle east is just horror and escalation and then ... there's no destination with anything any better.