Whoa. Adobe is offering *full* legal indemnification for copyright lawsuits over generated images that enterprise users produce in Firefly. Their model is trained on licensed & out of copyright images, which others don't do – so it's a big throw-down.
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Major Tech Companies Struggle with Future of Work Innovation
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Apple, Disney, Salesforce: Why are the world’s best companies failing to innovate on the #FutureofWork? https://
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Silicon Valley’s ‘Early 2024’ shipping deadline humor
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When it ships. I expect March 31, 2024. That's the last day anyone in Silicon Valley can claim "early 2024" on. At least with a straight face.
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Apple Glasses Expected Within Two to Four Years
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The glasses will be. Huge market. So you won't wait too long. Two to four years. But the Apple stores will all have them featured, I hear.
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Snorkel AI Conference Day 1 Wraps with Industry Leaders
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As we wrap up Day 1 at https://
future.snorkel.ai, thank you to all attendees, speakers, and partners @microsoft
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, @gretal_ai, @seldon_io
, @predibase
, @togethercompute
, @LambdaAPI
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Big Tech destroying culture: powerlessness in digital age
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the end result is just a feeling of powerlessness that is extra present and entrenched in every facet of participating in life. there was a good tweet i can’t find that a unifying part of being alive now is a shitty rich person buying and destroying something you like. true!
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Wealth as Ideological Tool: The Rise of ‘Fuck You Money’ Culture
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i think this is right! and there’s definitely a literalization of this old concept that we see now (and tons of people who *love* to watch people use their “fuck you money” to own their ideological enemies)
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Tech Companies Compromising Ethics for Financial Gain
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not saying there’s some golden age of business or anything but i think the last decade has been a real rise of this mentality – this platform being a v small example of when the $ is just too good & you cant say no so you have to get in bed with somebody who has disdained for you
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Corporate Shamelessness and Outrage Fatigue in Modern Economics
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the ‘late stage capitalism’ line is kinda unhelpful now in articulating the context of our lives but if there’s 1 quality of it i think it’s just emboldening actors to be as shameless as they want who cares? ppl will move on to the next outrage & also it’s fun to own your enemies
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Tech industry shamelessness about money and power dynamics
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part of me feels like a dipshit for tweeting this bc this has always been the case with money and power (and glossing it over isn’t exactly better) but the shift in the packaging of it all feels notable. there’s just a shamelessness – who cares about seeming craven/hypocritical?!