I have being using Claude 3.5 as a reading companion with which/whom I can have a surprisingly intelligent conversation on topics that are new to me or well known. It adds an interactive conversation to reading. Who is going to indulge me in a conversation at 11 PM on some abstruse text I happen to be reading? Claude! Yes, frequent errors but if I give a quote or screen shot then smart rebuttals or extensions. This makes my thinking sharper and learning much more fun.

Why would media companies be better than technologists training against all publicly available content (torrents, streaming, offline media)? Media companies are good at capturing value via copyright and creating a moat through resources needed to produce content, not technology.

I’m not sure about that. I think the OpenAI deals the cards here. They have the model and the data. If these media outlets fire creative people there’s nothing they have that OpenAI hasn’t got.

It may not make a difference if all published material converges :\