It was inevitable unfortunately.
I’m waiting for an LLM to run local to my toaster; figure at this rate, June? July maybe?
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I gave up on Discord when there was that cryptoscam stuff in the talks some years ago. Never giving them any money again.
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I’ve never given them my money, but this shit makes me want to stop using them entirely, which sucks because it actually works really well, including on Linux.
This sounds like that bit I saw someone post yesterday on Fedi about how Spotify is rolling out some AI tool that allows people to remix and mashup any tracks available and essentially create derivative works without paying or crediting the artists.
From a business perspective, I just can’t understand why these companies would invest so heavily in a technology that is just going to drive any actually paying human beings away from their platforms. Are they just trying to attract uncreative people that want to feel creative by taking other peoples’ work and making something “new” from it without actually being good at the work themselves?
Eventually it’s just going to be bots talking to bots, and those bots aren’t going to be paying anybody for anything. I can’t understand why companies would want to run headlong towards something that will destroy their platforms.
Make it make sense!
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I suspect it’s some combination of Zuck’s drive to fill his shitty platform with fake bot accounts interacting with each other and sell that on to advertisers as “engagement,” and Spotify managers going “*AI *something *something teh FYUTURE!”
The Discord thing is just inexcusable and someone is paying fat stacks to them to make it unavoidable. Just like M$ including it with all Orifice365 subs now. “Look at all our monthly users! Number go up!”
Just fucking depressing.
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You can say that again, bub.
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Oh Discord, all you would need to do is allow users to reject third-party apps, preferably by default.
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