The output of these models seems really impressive, but for my money the notion that it has value is undermined by the way its trainers keep "proprietary" data that is likely to be in violation of image usage rights at a large scale. What is the true value of something that can only be had at the other end of misbegotten extraction/exploitation? It seems like a similar trade-off to the one that web3 proponents are asking us to make. The apparent end-game is that we'll kill off all the true value creators - the working artists responsible for the source data - and all we'll be left with is an artifact of their works.

Google still can't reliably figure out that an email from jpm0r4ncha$e telling me how much money I've won is spam. Once they nail that down, then maybe I'll step inside one of their self driving cars. Until then, I'll laugh at the video where the Tesla flattens a child-sized mannequin.

Any two wallet addresses are able to. That doesn’t mean the people are. By abstracting the actual process of getting and using the Bitcoin on both ends you’ve lost all actual real world detail.

…and they can still lose it all to typos or fees permanently.