Let’s say a user generates one image per minute. If they do that for an hour, that’s $30M. If they did that once a day for a month, that’s almost a billion dollars.
These services have hundreds of millions of users. Collectively, if they don’t stop, the fines will be total-world-GDP levels in days or weeks.
These things are nonconsensual sexual image machine guns, dude.
Less expensive: yep
Actually fun colors: yep
Windows is worse than ever: yep
It would have been surprising if this thing wasn’t a hit.
I built my own (custom) version of this sort of thing too, but beware: if you’re traveling in or to the US, TSA can get very cranky about pills not in their original containers. If you’re about to go on a long trip and you have drugs you absolutely cannot miss doses of, just use the original bottles.
It’s time. (It’s been time.)
so,
Duh, it’s run by IBM. The most brain-rotted management suite on earth. All they do is chase the cool new hotness, and unfortunately it works for them – they’re mostly selling to other brain-rotted manager types. (The end users, as usual, get hosed.)
Thing is on sale
Pick thing up off the shelf
Walk around and look at other stuff
Go to check out
Thing is no longer on sale
Walmart, if they try this, is going to witness a Karen-level explosion of speaking with the manager like they could never imagine
The entire “AI” industry feels built on the premise that you never have to get permission for things.
I’m annoyed at the state of Apple’s app ecosystem. MacOS is worse this year than it’s been in a long time and I’m not updating on Macs that I control.
But have you used a windows pc recently? It’s like banging rocks together. Somehow, they keep finding ways to make it worse every year. Or month. So yeah, I’m using a Mac because it’s the less terrible option.
(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)
We have been complaining about this shit for YEARS.
Imagine how many they hope to sell to schools. These things are gonna be in the shop for repairs all the time. Making them easy to repair is better for the consumer, but better for Apple, too.
You’ll find most scientists hanging out on the platform formally known as Twitter, Bluesky, and (to a lesser degree) Mastodon. This may be disappointing to hear, but most scientists are just normal people who don’t really care about federation and open source software and stuff. They just want to post stuff and have it be seen.
Some of us do care! Just not enough to get a critical mass away from the proprietary networks.
You should try yelling “money” again, that’ll definitely convince people. Of. Well, whatever it is you’re trying to convince us of.
There is nothing as hilarious as someone trying to use fancy words but missing pretty basic concepts of the language.
You’re trying to sound smart. It’s making you sound dumber.
“I am so smart, the answer is obvious. So I won’t tell you. If you don’t get it, you’re not as smart as me.”
🙄
People have been begging for big tech companies that rely on open source software to support development. Netflix finally did the dang thing.
More, please!
Nobody actually posted the link to the poll?
I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.
Obviously yes, one image is too many. But companies only care about money, and if their money is going to evaporate because of their stupid technology, they’ll figure out a way to shut it off before it costs them.
The alternative is the status quo, which is that there are no consequences so there are no changes. Or maybe you make the fine ten quadrillion dollars for the first image generated, which is never gonna fly.