Wow. The popups on Forbes are bad. I had one covering the lower third until another ad popped up, covering the whole screen of my phone. I literally had one ad blocking another ad.

They literally turned 50cent into millions.

I guess Ye was trying to get her to be his black Kate Moss tonight, to play secretary, Ye’s the boss tonight?

I suspect there will still be online interactions with humans, just more interactions with bots. Unfortunately, it’s we humans behind the mess. Even if we pass laws to stop it (or even forced labels of “I’m a bot” on bot accounts), some people won’t play by the rules. So the change is going to happen. We can try to persuade the public, but we know how well that works:

So what do you propose be done about it?

So change means “dying”? So every time a tadpole evolves into a frog, a tadpole dies? Should we have protest signs that read, “FROGS KILL TADPOLES! DOWN WITH FROGS”?

Bots are increasing. But the Internet is not dead/dying, just changing. Many of the “The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day.” are repost bots merely parroting human generated content.

I wonder, though, if this will cause the scrapers to be impacted by the reposters or other AI generated content.

But is the Internet dying? The thing it doesn’t say is if the human participation is dwindling.

To keep it simple, I’ll work with small numbers. Imagine there are 10 humans online. Now imagine 1 bot on online. Bots are 9% (1 in 11) of this imaginary online community. A year later, those same 10 humans are still online, but there are now 10 bots online; the bots are 50% of the community. This statistic can lead you to think there is less human participation when nothing happened to the humans. The difference is the raw number of bots. This is what I believe is happening, about the same number of humans, just an increasing number of bots, scraping, posting, etc.

X/Twitter is dying because of mismanagement.

“Don’t you think Trump looks tired?”

To paraphrase for this specific situation. When the Doctor says to Alex, “Don’t you think she (Harriet) looks tired.” It’s planting the seed in Alex to question if Harriet is fit to continue being Prime Minister, or if she is ‘too tired’. These 6 words spoken to Alex, Harriet’s Sr. aide, inevitably leads to Harriet’s downfall

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193743/how-did-the-doctor-take-harriet-jones-down-in-the-christmas-invasion

“Hi! I’m Clippy! It looks like you’re trying to play Halo. Let’s take you to the Store so you can purchase more DLCs…”

But I just want to play Halo…

“Yes, but the DLCs will make it better!”

But I’m happy with what I already have.

“Oh, look, here’s the store!”

A factual, “You snooze, you lose”. I suspect they lost (or will lose) their jobs.

Good to note, “None on board - including 153 passengers and four flight attendants - were injured during the flight, and there was no damage to the aircraft.”

“Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago”

–Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics

Maybe the landfill won’t be overstuffed as quickly as expected.

See also

“Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version” https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/

It’s a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.

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" As long as there is organic carbon in the soil for the microbes to break down, the fuel cell can potentially last forever.”

It’s also a stationary battery

“Although the entire device is buried, the vertical design ensures that the top end is flush with the ground’s surface.”

You ever sit on a plane and wonder, “How sturdy are those wings? Maybe I should just pop out there and check them. Let’s see if I walk out there, if they could support my weight.” He was obviously testing their durability.

Or maybe it’s Doctor Who’s next regeneration.

Most seem to be gone, but I found one: https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide-context/dp/B0C5X1GXPH/ref=sr_1_40?qid=1705212380

While I have no idea of specifics, 90K missing plus 100K in debt to several places, including to the paper’s printer, might be the real issue. The debt stretches back months, and it’s possible companies were threatening to stop doing business with the paper. If the printer cuts you off, you can’t print the paper that would make up lost revenue. And it’s going to be hard to get financing for a new printer when you have outstanding unpaid debt.

The paper also became aware of at least $100,000 in unpaid bills — including to the paper’s printer — stretching back several months

If the autogenerated art becomes too close to copyrighted art, then you’ll have humans suing AI generators.

George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord is very similar to He’s So Fine by the Chiffons. And that was an easy case. But some cases in requires deeper analysis, such as Lana Del Ray’s Get Free.

In January 2018, singer Lana Del Rey claimed that Radiohead were suing her because of alleged similarities between their 1992 debut single Creep, and her song Get Free, from her 2017 album Lust for Life. The band’s publishers Warner/Chappell subsequently denied taking legal action, but did confirm requesting credit for “all writers” of Creep.

The Guardian spoke to a professional composer to analyse the songs, who noted that the chords used are rare in pop music, and the melodies bear an uncanny resemblance, although in conclusion “imagined the similarities are unintentional”.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190605-nine-most-notorious-copyright-cases-in-music-history

If AI is sampling, then how do you defend it being unintentional? While all Radiohead sought was credit on the writing (in this case), would humans (whose livelihood is being threatened) be so generous with an AI composition? And if the music industry is threatened by AI, they will lawyer up.

Fair enough,

The authors may be dead, but they did exist. The work had an author.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

If you’re going to use a character some human ever created, hire a lawyer. The House of Mouse has their own lawyers.