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Interesting. So, we're going to deny that most of the IP theft from China up to this moment? Do you even think China is this advanced just because of chinese innovation? C'mon man.

Unfortunately, the porn pivot might be their path to "profitability".

> "Wow, for a period of time we were able to get more jobs to a significantly large amount of the population due to innovation. How fortunate."

Here's the thing: This is good for the economy and human development overall.

What we're witnessing right now is the opposite: Mega corps trying to control almost every industry, and shifting the economic and social landscape from a capitalistic society to a neo-feudalistic one.

The socioeconomic implications of this shift will be something humanity has never experienced before, since the endgame is to automate everything. If we get to that point, either the government seizes the means of production (I don't agree with that since this is communism) and distributes wealth, or the government charges nearly a 97% on taxes (capital gains, etc but taxation is basically theft, hehe) and we start living in a "Jetsons"-like society, or we get a feudalistic society (hopefully I'm dead wrong).

Is there an in-between?

Don't get me wrong, the gig economy is really bad, but unfortunately covers a big chunk of jobs. When this scales up (and it will), what would happen to these people and the economy in general? There won't be an UBI reasonable enough to deal with the aftermath of this reality (basic law of supply and demand).

If things keep going the they are right now, in less than 50 years (give or take 10 years?), we could literally see the economic landscape migrating from a capitalist society to a neo feudalistic one, where companies will basically control everything (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, are basically investing in everything, from health to food) and people just work (if there are still any left), just to survive.

Interesting times we're living...

I mean, it's a bubble. The question is, who's going to lose more money, and who's going to recoup at least some of the investments back before the music stops.

Testing LLama, DeepSeek, and Mistral atm.

We're testing different models depending on the business case. Our initial tests using 3, 7, and 8B models are working fine. We're not using the big ones since our use cases don't demand them.

This is fair. We're now evaluating open-source LLMs to develop our in-house solutions, adding them to our products and services. As soon as they released the models, the moat was, depending on the context, somewhat gone.

This x1000. Are businesses short sided enough to help create and develop another wallet garden just like "Google" and "Amazon" are right now? Time will tell but I think businesses want to own their sales funnel, not just give the user a way to avoid interacting with them.

Exactly. I don't understand why we always have to bash the US. I dislike the way China does business, and I believe the greatest error of the 20th century was moving all manufacturing there. I don't know why the government allowed companies to move everything to Asia when we could have killed two birds with one stone by moving operations to Latin America. This would keep all manufacturing on the continent and result in much less illegal migration to the US. Given the political climate of the past 20 years, China hasn't had to do much to plot the United States' demise or at least become the top economic power in 20 years or less. That if the US gets its house in order and at least 2/3 of the country rallies around, becoming, cue the music, great again (I'll see myself out, hehe).

Please check how Amazon Basics works and what SMBs are saying.

Knowing OAI's history, only big whales could survive being copied by the platform's owner—case in point: Amazon Basics. They're so big that most of the time, SMBs can't escape them and don't have a choice but to cave to Amazon's demands. Is your product successful? Great, I'll copy you, add the "Amazon basics" label, and start bombarding users with my "product".

This x100. This is HCI 101. I'm glad I took that class during my master's program. It opened my eyes to a new world.

With what exactly? They are desperately trying to create a "marketplace" and become gatekeepers on the backs of developers and businesses alike. There's no innovation here.

Yeah... no. I'm going to pass. The premise is bad from any angle. In the case of businesses, why "create" another "Amazon" and compete with other brands when the focus should be on getting customers through my sales funnel? For developers is much worse since they are going to copy Amazon's model with brands that found a niche: Amazon Basics. In this case, it'll be OpenAI "core" (or something like that), where you do all the work, and when your "app" is somewhat famous enough or getting traction, they'll copy it, rebrand it, and bombard all old and new customers to use it instead of yours.

I'mma call it now just for the fun of it: This will go the way of their "GPT" store.

Exactly. I don't understand why children "need" to use any social network. We were raised without it, and so can any kid, for that matter.

The bubble will burst with a vengeance when big corporations and startups start deploying and utilizing LLM models on-premises instead of the "pay-as-you-go" trap.

At this point, every LLM startup out there is just trying to stay in the game long enough before VC money runs out or others fold. This is basically a war of attrition. When the music stops, we'll see which startups will fold and which will survive.

"Merchants are ranked based on availability, price, quality, whether they are the maker or primary seller of that item, and whether Instant Checkout is enabled."

So, this is a race to de bottom for any SMB. If this didn't work for Instagram and Facebook, I don't think is gonna work for them neither.

What's interesting is that they're REALLY trying to see what's going to stick before the wheel stops spinning. From "AGI" and gpt5 getting Altman all "scared" of what's coming to trying to sell ads, a social media showing ai videos, among other things ("app" store with GPTs, etc.).

If there was a statement that we were in a bubble waiting to pop, this right here is plenty enough proof of that.

We stopped hiring a while ago because we were adjusting to "AI". We're planning to start hiring next year, as upper management finally saw the writing on the wall: LLMs won't evolve past junior engineers, and we need to train junior engineers to become mid-level and senior engineers to keep the engine moving.

We're now using LLMs as mere tools (which is what it was meant to be from the get-go) to help us with different tasks, etc., but not to replace us, since they understand you need experienced and knowledgeable people to know what they're doing, since they won't learn everything there's to know to manage, improve and maintain tech used in our products and services. That sentiment will be the same for doctors, lawyers, etc., and personally, I won't put my life in the hands of any LLMs when it comes to finances, health, or personal well-being, for that matter.

If we get AGI, or the more sci-fi one, ASI, then all things will radically change (I'm thinking humanity reaching ASI will be akin to the episode from Love, Death & Robots: "When the Yogurt Took Over"). In the meantime, the hype cycle continues...

Well, TikTok is and will still be the dominant force in that area, and I don't think Instagram will win this time. For photos? Instagram is still the king of the hill. For video consumption? TikTok is the king.

This article is missing key info. Which research areas are we talking about?

They're really trying everything. They need the Google/Apple ecosystem to compete against them. Fb is adding LLMs to all its products, too. Personally, I stopped using ChatGPT months ago in favor of other services, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.

Luckily for them, they have a big chunk of the "pie", so they need to iterate and see if they can form a partnership with Dell, HP, Canonical, etc, and take the fight to all of their competitors (Google, Microsoft, etc.)

> These events led to at least seven deaths

Context is everything:

$2.7 billion, where a big part went to:

U.S. Capitol Police (USCP)

Costs: Over $620 million (as reported by GAO).

- Overtime pay for officers during and after the attack. - Mental health services and trauma support for affected personnel. - Recruitment and training of new officers to address staffing shortages. - Enhanced security infrastructure (e.g., fencing, surveillance, communication systems).

Judicial and Prosecution Costs

- Total DOJ Expenditures: Estimated at $100–150 million. - Salaries and overtime for prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff. - Court operations, including hearings, trials, and detention. - Legal representation for defendants unable to afford counsel.

And if you keep digging, the amount of money spent was basically on human labor and overtime pay.

Now, tell me again how this compares to $2 billion in actual damages to businesses (arson, looting, and vandalism, etc.), with this event being considered the costliest insured civil disorder event in U.S. history?

This is interesting since I'm from a minority group, don't even know who the Proud Boys are, and even though I told you I'm an independent, you assumed right from the get-go my political affiliation. If antifa is not a group but a rabble of misfits, then this classification won't amount to much, would it?

I'm independent, and the $2.7 billion (which is a crazy amount of money) was basically to pay to procecute +1000 rioters.

That is vastly different from burning cities, etc...

Now, I've seen what antifa militants do almost every time they protest, and to be honest, they should have been declared domestic terrorists sooner rather than later. You can protest without having to vandalize/burning buildings, etc.

I mean, businesses need to be impartial and take no sides. Their goal is to serve both sides of the aisle. If you have a business or you're the CEO, CTO, etc., you can share your political views privately.

They capitulated because they lost the right a few years ago, and they can't lose the left either.

I think the premise the OP is pointing at is that this could be a position for a US citizen.

Any criticism is protected under the 1st Amendment, and that includes what you just posted.