Great thread about the financial and technological factors with deals between news companies and AI providers. I’ve been wondering how often — and to what extent — AI credits are part of deals vs monetary amounts.
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Economic Indicators Manipulation: Detection and Social Response
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I’ve been wondering if/when economic indicators would start being altered. Would anyone notice & how would people respond?
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Gig work’s cost: losing community for financial survival
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the main problem is in the quest of transactional jobs and freelancing to make some more dough for your sneakers you forgot community and friendships and long term relationships. All your social connectivity was basically shitting on people on the internet. There's still time.
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Automating Production Redefines Purpose and Human Value Exchange
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why do we need to exchange value of good created once we can automatically create them? We can still exchange the values of friendship, company, adventure, without all of this. We'll just change our purpose. Right now the purpose of school->job->career is kinda random
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AI Models Will Be Free Eventually Labs Won’t Profit
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it's not stealing, math was eventually going to get to this point anyway. And it will 100% be free. Even the labs won't make money on it in the very long run. I run several models on my machine at home with no incremental cost.
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Money as Art’s Biggest Pollutant: Technology’s Role
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If you really think about it, money is actually the biggest pollutant of art. Did we really arrive on this planet to think about everything in terms of compensation? Right now yes, money is the way you get access to resources but the goal with this technology is that it drops the
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France’s Innovation Paralysis: Fear Blocks Technological Progress
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Le monde accélère. Les innovations fusent. Partout. Sauf chez nous.
— Rafik Smati (@RafikSmati) 28 mars 2025
Pourquoi ?
Parce que nous avons peur.
Parce que nous jouons en défense.
Parce que l’incertitude du changement nous terrifie.
La réalité est que depuis plusieurs décennies, la France a fait un choix : celui de… pic.twitter.com/fL6kEWHxodLe monde accélère. Les innovations fusent. Partout. Sauf chez nous. Pourquoi ?
Parce que nous avons peur.
Parce que nous jouons en défense.
Parce que l’incertitude du changement nous terrifie. La réalité est que depuis plusieurs décennies, la France a fait un choix : celui de -
AI Economics Mirror Search Engine Revenue Model Structure
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seems like, so far, AI is shaped like search in terms of RPE
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AI-native companies outperform legacy tech in revenue per employee
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inflation adjusted revenue per employee of ai-native companies vs. legacy tech companies (courtesy, deep research):
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AI Art Generation: Artist Rights and Compensation Models
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This is very true, if something is not in the public domain. Artists needs a way to make sure their work or style is either preserved or remunerated accordingly. This will be a hard nut to crack. One could also argue that Studio Ghibli got the most free marketing ever, and