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[–] Rooty 57 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm all for corporations souring their dopamine pipes. Perhaps it may encourage the users to do something useful with their free time, maybe even pick up a book or two (said he, while scrolling Lemmy in bed).

[–] mPony 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Discworld isn't gonna read itself.

[–] Rooty 1 points 2 weeks ago

Listening to the Hogfather while doing chores rn 😀

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I suspect they anticipate exponential increases in ML generated content creation quality and/or they expect that users will gobble up AI slop and it won't effect medium/long term engagement growth.

[–] Rooty 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I guess so, but engagement does not equal revenue, and the models are black boxes that are already falling apart. I have no idea where exponential improvement should come from - throwing more and more computational power into the maw can only get you so far.