I feel like there’s a journey from being skeptical about AI, to being wowed when it does something impressive, then to eventual realism about its abilities and shortcomings. Not everyone has completed that journey yet, especially people who are less technical.

I avoid obviously AI-written prose. If it wasn’t important enough for the author to put effort into writing it, why should I put effort into reading it?

Isn’t the goal only to prove that a photograph was taken with a particular camera? I don’t think you could ever prove that the subject was legitimate, as there are countless ways to misrepresent things. But in a world of AI slop, knowing a photo was taken on a real camera and wasn’t synthesized artificially is still a useful data point in determining trust.

GB News is essentially the UK equivalent of Fox News and should not be considered unbiased in this area.

The thing that’s always missing from videos like this is how much prompting or manual editing it took. It’s always implied that it was a one-shot, when it almost certainly was not.

It doesn’t have to be this way. You can use AI in ways that don’t rot your brain. You can delegate easy tasks to the AI to save time, while saving the harder tasks for yourself. Or you can treat it more as a mentor / tutor and have it explain why it made certain decisions.

I find that AI fails at things that are truly creative. I have been thoroughly unimpressed with ideas it has had or things it’s written for me. There’s still a lot of room for human creativity.

> You can delegate easy tasks to the AI to save time, while saving the harder tasks for yourself.

This sounds a lot like "You can skip the fundamentals of basketball and just focus on dunking!"

Well, the "easy" tasks people are delegating are still leading to atrophy. Stuff like having it take over your writing. Now you feel you cannot write without this crutch. I've seen stuff pitched like AI that makes your slide decks for you. That to me is dangerous because creating the slide deck in a coherent way is imo a very valuable way to understand your project and keep on track with the story you are trying to tell about the work. I think a lot of what we think is easy or even boring has a lot of value in building up our understanding.

It baffles me a bit that people are working so hard to replace themselves with AI. It's such a high bar for the AI to hit, and takes the creativity away from the human.

I have a pet theory that perhaps the optimal way to use AI will be more like an "exoskeleton" that turns you into a super-human programmer. Something that plugs the deficiencies of the human programmer, rather than replacing you entirely.

I wouldn't keep the "hardest" tasks. I'd keep the important ones. It's often the same, but there are differences. And I'd argue that the important ones are the ones that you most want to retain the ability to do yourself anyhow.

Chinatown was based on a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars

AWS isn’t the best fit for everyone. But sometimes you don’t realize that until later down the line (or your business or the industry changes), at which point you’re locked in due to the many customer-hostile tactics they use to lock you in, such as high egress fees.

Just rolled out a big new update for my video cloud platform https://www.kollaborate.tv with a new player, side-by-side playback comparison and a big improvement in accessibility.

Currently we’re using AWS and Backblaze B2, but I’m formulating a plan to move to colocated servers. Not being billed per GB will open up a lot of new opportunities. Even at today’s server prices the math still adds up.

Is it egress or storage that's the main cost driver?

Mostly storage. Customers upload large files and expect the original file to always be available.

This is probably the most dystopian AI product I’ve seen. At first I thought it was a parody but it appears to be genuine. If your partner actually uses this, be glad you’re no longer in a relationship with them.