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Even billion dollar corporations refuse to pay for porn!
I have to say that the basic concept of having Meta pay human adult content performers to perform to teach an AI about sexual performance would be kind of surreal.
"So what do you do for work?"
"I'm an exotic dancer."
"Straight or gay establishment?"
"Err...I perform for an artificial intelligence."
Joanna Maciejewaska
I expect that Joanna would not be enthused about humans stripping for machines.
While I understand the meaning behind the quote, the quote itself doesn't make any sense.
AI isn't necessarily generative image systems, that's just one category of AI. Currently there are no commercially available robots and the ones that do exist can't do domestic chores with any degree of reliability.
It's a lot easier to get AI to generate images than to get it to make your bed. So the quoter is demanding it do the hard thing, rather than the easy thing.
Yeah. That quote is really based on ignorance.
Form the recent paper by Open AI on how GPT is being used. 1.6 percent use it to 'write fiction', image generation is less than 5%.
Anyone talking shit like this is just parroting TikTok talking points.
My robovac is pretty good at domestic chores, no LLM involved tho. My dish and clothes washing machines also do a better job than I could by hand, and only require me to load and unload them.
Yeah, in all honesty, it's not really my ideal as a quote to capture the idea. Among other things, it's comparing what is for the quoted person, household tasks and employment, whereas I'd generally prefer employment vs employment for most of these.
And for the quoted person, the issue is that AI is doing work that we tend to think of as potentially-desirable, rather than in the context I'm writing about, where it's more that science fiction often portrays AI-driven sex robots that perform for humans (think Blade Runner or A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)), but doesn't really examine humans performing for AIs.
Still, it was the closest popular quote I could think of to address the idea that the split between AI and human roles in a world with AIs is not that which we might have anticipated.
https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/marketcap/
So in the technical sense that they're worth more than a billion dollars, yes, but...
I think billion dollar unicorns was old pre-covid era, now US is heading toward trillion dollar startups.
Well it is Zuckerberg, he seems exactly like the kind of bitter nerd that wouldn't pay for porn even when he has all the money he could ever ask for.
It would be the one sensible thing about him then
But didn't he go to one of the best universities in the world. Isn't that really the point of him. The hell is he bitter about?
Not sure what you mean but IIRC, he dropped out to start Facebook.
kagis
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Incidentally, some other prominent tech founders did the same. Off the top of my head:
Bill Gates (founder, Microsoft):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Michael Dell (founder, Dell Technologies):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell
Steve Wozniak (founder, Apple):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
He started Apple later, didn't directly do it from college.
He did go back to university, years later, after he'd retired from Apple, and got his bachelor's degree.
Let's not confuse anecdotes and statistics. Less than 10% of the USA's richest dropped out of collage
Yeah he dropped out but his parents were rich enough to get him in there in the first place. He's had an entirely blessed life there's nothing for him to be unhappy about.