Or just delete the app and log in once a year or whenever you’re job seeking?
I will say I agree that the platform is mostly spam and has definitely gotten worse sense 2021 when the article was written. But you can just not log in everyday and still have a profile. Also no reason to put your birthday on a social network IMO and you can reject requests for connections if you don’t know someone.
That's too bad. Apple's most interesting value proposition is running local inference with big privacy promises. They wouldn't need to be the highest performer to offer something a lot of people might want.
Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk and letting users click “not interested” on Apple Intelligence and never see it again.
From a business perspective it’s a smart move (inasmuch as “integrating AI” is the default which I fundamentally disagree with) since Apple won’t be left holding the bag on a bunch of AI datacenters when/if the AI bubble pops.
I don’t want to lose trust in Apple, but I literally moved away from Google/Android to try and retain control over my data and now they’re taking me… right back to Google. Guess I’ll retreat further into self-hosting.
I also agree with this. Microsoft successfully removed my entire household from ever owning one of their products again after this year. Apple and linux make up the entire delta.
As long as Apple doesn't take any crazy left turns with their privacy policy then it should be relatively harmless if they add in a google wrapper to iOS (and we won't need to take hard right turns with grapheneOS phones and framework laptops).
There are a lot of AI videos that you can very easily tell are AI, even if they are done well. For example, I just saw a Higgsfield video of a kangaroo fighting in the UFC. You can tell it is AI, mainly because it would be an insane amount of work to create any other way. But I think it is getting close to good enough that a lot of people, even knowing it is AI, wouldn't care. Everyone other than the most ardent anti-AI people are going to be fine with this when we have people creating interesting and engaging media with AI.
I think we will look back at AI "slop" as a temporary point in time where people were creating bad content, and people were defending it as good even when it was not. Instead, as you say, AI video will fall into the background as a tool creators use, just like cameras or CGI. But in my opinion it won't be that people can't tell that AI was used at all. Rather, it will be that they won't care if there is still a creative vision behind it.
At least, that is what I hope compared to the outcome where there are no creators and people just watch Sora videos tailored to them all day.
the date has been changing for years now. one day someone will actually define what bubble we are waiting to burst and then will poke it to burst and many will say “hey, see I was right all along” ;)
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I will say I agree that the platform is mostly spam and has definitely gotten worse sense 2021 when the article was written. But you can just not log in everyday and still have a profile. Also no reason to put your birthday on a social network IMO and you can reject requests for connections if you don’t know someone.
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