Video hosting/bandwidth is just too expensive to run long term. All big platforms are either barely making any profit after years operating or are still running into a negative. But since they have multi-billion corporations behind them they can affort it and get others benefits from having a big userbase to exploit.
If their goal was to be profitable that's what they would of done, but it always was about killing 3rd party apps.
Definetely!
I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes.
„We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?“ - Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
They have their Twitter for now.
I completely agree with you about polls being flawed tool at best, but the general sentiment in Europe is defintely in favor of Ukraine both vocally and financially. The support varies per different countries, but apart from Hungary who are very pro-russian the whole block supports them in majority.
I have a feeling that if they held a popular vote in which everyone was forced to respond, the overwhelming majority would choose to use their tax money in another way
Not in most of the Europe, 74 percent of Europeans support EU’s backing for Ukraine.
It requires a vote from every single EU member and Poland stands with them and in return Hungary supports them and they both can be untouchable.
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The problem I see is that a lot of the LLM models are already open-source, so the legislation might try to limit it's usage, but that should have been done before their training. Right now anyone with a simple laptop can download a model and run it locally fully offline. Same goes to other AI technologies. To be honest the time to regulate was when those crappy deepfakes started showing a few years back, now it's defintely too late.
Just like, after the industrial revolution, we are beginning to come to a shared conclusion that climate change, as a result of industrial pollution, has begun to affect our lives.
And yet we still haven't done anything to slow it down let alone stop it and that has been an issue for decades.
There is such thing as anonymous data.