These same publishers ALL are using AI internally, externally, in content and code generation, for book cover images, translations, in student assistants, etc etc. So as much as I loathe Meta, I honestly I hope the the publishers lose this case. You can’t point your finger at Meta and then also turn around and use the very product you have such a problem with for your own benefit.
Awesome work. Stuff like this is what makes selfhosted the best community on lemmy!
My god this video is 14 years old and still just as relevant. I love the bit at the end
“Next week we’ll be talking about BodyDoo, the popular new device that links with your iPhone to post all of your bodily functions right to facebook”
This is really great (and by great I mean terrifying to see it all laid out plainly). The only nitpick is the idea that the model “is coming to europe next” … as if this whole thing wasn’t kicked off by Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Europe was the testing bed for this a decade or more ago.
Excellent, insightful comment and I very much appreciate and resonate with this response.
I do think the protest serves to raise awareness, even if it’s a bit extreme. The desired effect is not really to encourage the complete rejection of tech, but bring attention to the issues and get the average person to think a little more about their usage of it. I’m actually kind of proud of these young folks for being able to snap themselves out of the social media-induced hypnotic state their generation seems to be stuck in.
Great work! Enjoyable read. I’ve always thought those basic droplets would choke as soon as any significant traffic began to scale up, but this shows it can stretch pretty far.
The only real issue here is that the tests assume applications are receiving legitimate human visits, but we know something like 90% of all traffic are bots and scrapers. Serving 4000 actual users would be significant, because the application could be serving more like 40,000 other requests from bots in that case. That’s why we’re inclined to not launch apps without implementing advanced caching and CDNs.