Adding something to the "Risks" section of your company's financial report reads more like CYA ("Cover Your Ass") than "We're afraid of AI!" behavior.
I'd be curious about the position of these segments in the 10-Ks, like, if they're suddenly all at the top, that's much more interesting than being tacked on to the end.
It's free to put any bad thing in the risks section of your 10-K; investors aren't going to shun your company over it. If you fail to put the risk in, the bad thing happens, and your company loses value, on the other hand, you may get sued for securities fraud - and courts have been oddly receptive to these suits.
It's like any other clause that gets added to any other mostly-boilerplate legal document over time: one firm adds it, pretty soon everyone copies their work and it's a standard term. It's viral. How fast this spreads among company filings is a matter of epidemiology, not something that actually tells you the companies' outlook.
Instagram was moments before ipo.
Also the FB html5 play at the time was a decent bridge to the app play which did of course explode growth.
So let’s be fair they didn’t fail but they acquired to grow even more.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interpublic_Group_of_Compa...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnicom_Group
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Discovery
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Global
I'm sure there are a lot more.
What happens when anyone can write a script and have a feature length movie or 12 episode season.
Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok all beg to differ. AI slop farms are making bank over there, especially on short form content aimed at little kids. They get hundreds of millions of views, earning more than what Disney/WB makes on some of their high budget garbage movies in cinema.
What is one specific example?
Oh boy, I hope you're sitting down for this. Here's some people exposing this issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B4_wFOSsuE
I think you're misunderstanding. Consumers don't need to spend money directly, for AI slop farms on Youtube or TikTok to make money, since advertisers pay for the views they get on their videos, not you.
IT's not all about YOU, YOU are probably not the targe audience, but they do make money even if YOU don't watch that stuff.
Where did I say they'll be doomed? I said they're monetizing short form content on YouTube/Tiktok using AI slop, and that can make more money than some crap cinema movies at the box office.
Not when they loose hundreds of millions. Snow White just lost Disney about 150 million.
>A view is worth less than $1.
Yes, and they get hundreds of million of views and failures don't cast anything since they don't need to keep cinemas open.
But ooooh boy, would porn change. Maybe that would be the end of pornography, the perfect wish fulfillment making it no longer enjoyably.