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This is precisely why we need strict government regulation of open weight models. :wink:

…and it’ll involve BGP routing.

I added a specific rule to disallow saying “load bearing”. So Claude is now saying “load handling”

Depends on the sector. Lots of sectors are full of people for whom the mission is part of the comp. EdTech is one for sure.

I would imagine not too many folks work in AdTech to support the mission.

I’d imagine most books are read by people who don’t know much or anything about the author who wrote the book.

Likewise, even if the reader does know about the author and think the author is a bad person, they still read the book, watch the movie, listen to the song, etc

The reality is most people don’t get invested in the creators or the creation. It’s just a good story and all the meta-stuff doesn’t affect most people’s consumption.

So, that is to say, AI writing, music and all the other arts will be commercially successful.

Now, there will also be a market for human-created content, which people will consume specifically because the content is human-created.

There are a few other paths to these types of decisions that also don’t require overt malice.

The most prevalent, almost universal, is that macro strategy is set without consideration of what it really takes to accomplish the goals. So the discussions are framed by resource constraints and decisions are rationalized by those constraints.

Likewise, group discussions at high levels are almost always abstracted into corporate-speak that removes clarity to the point where nobody can even decipher the original intent. Honestly, even when thinking about decisions or talking 1 on 1, it’s easy to mask real consequences with obtuse language. It’s a coping mechanism for many.

It’s been extremely rare that I’ve ever heard anyone say anything that could be directly considered condoning unethical behavior. Establishing plausible deniability is an involuntary reflex for lots of people.

Generally the decisions made on the ground that seem like greed or malice are more often made as part of some survival strategy.

It’s all quite messy and disheartening, but inevitably human.

This article is about the mechanics, but the title implies this is unethical. Why is this practice considered unethical?

He’s not selling the schematics for the “Produce Preamp”, that’s a freebie on his website.

I downloaded it. It’s a PDF of a circuit where instead of a 9v battery, there’s 2 nails and a banana.

Then he demos the sound in the video. A sound that could not possibly be produced by the circuit in the PDF or any reasonable variation of the circuit.

This is all presented without any tongue in cheek. It’s presented in the video, the website and PDF as being 100% real.

Yet, it’s objectively and indisputably fiction.

To go through all the trouble of setting this channel up and fabricating all the devices and the website with schematics and recording and editing the videos at a very high level seems extremely unlikely.

That’s a lot of work for very, very little or no gain. Unless I’m missing the big scam and there is a bunch of money to be made, but I don’t see it.

However, if this was AI slop. That’s 100% reasonable. Who cares, just write a prompt and out comes the video.

“Create a video of a new pedal that uses a banana for electricity.”

The whole thing has the feel of long AI hallucination for a vague prompt. It fits really well.

Except, I haven’t heard of any service that could generate a video with that level of quality and duration.

I totally expect that to be available sometime in the relatively near future. But from my understanding, currently available AI models can’t possibly be responsible for high quality videos of that length.

And given these videos have been showing up for many months makes the whole thing that much more strange.

It seems incredibly improbable that a person would put so much energy into creating high quality videos of nonsense for no purpose. Not impossible, but it just doesn’t add up.

It seems completely possible that, in 3 or 4 years time, publicly available AI services will be able to produce videos of this quality and duration.

I can’t think of any reasonable explanation for why these videos exist or for how they were made.

Thanks, I fixed the title.

The production quality of the videos is very high. Much higher than most click bait. Great lighting, great camera, great editing.

The subject matter is pretty esoteric though. So why go through the trouble?

I’ve seen some of those perpetual motion videos and they’re low effort, low quality.

This one is high effort, high quality. But on an esoteric subject. Also, he’s selling schematics for circuits that are completely imaginary.

I think anyone with a basic understanding of electronics would see the absurdity of these circuits and wouldn’t buy the schematics.

Plus, this guy spent all the time and effort fabricating these pedals with nonsensical circuits, to show them off with fake demonstrations to DIYers who absolutely would know in a second the whole thing is a farce?

The content is pure fiction.

Very low effort scam, esoteric subject not very useful for clickbait, the videos are trying to sell fictional things for low dollar amounts to people who will immediately know these are fictional.

But the quality is really high. If it’s real, it was clearly created by one or more highly competent people.

Why would highly competent people write a script, fabricate fake devices, light, film and edit videos with almost no chance to actually make money.

The content seems like complete nonsense. Like a long AI hallucination.

The quality seems way too good for existing AI video generators.

Yet, if it’s real, that’s an awful lot of time and money invested to produce a fake video.

If it’s a scam, like to sell fake schematics for fake circuits for $5 a pop, it’s a really high quality scam for almost super low likelihood of a payout.

Anyone heard of this channel before? If this is AI generated, it’s exceptional.

Why do these videos exist?

That’s what it feels like. A sort of rising tide that will lift all boats. Though many boats will also sink… so there’s that.

I really like the whole concept and execution!

I like the lack of instructions, it makes it fun to explore the rules. In fact, unique rules per game might be interesting to discover.

The UI is perfect, keep it simple and focused on play. Though, I agree with other comments that the final flashing lights should be slower.

A move count and leader board for time to complete and fewest moves to complete would make this social-ish.

Maybe hints for harder puzzles?

I could see this going a long way, so many variations to explore!

Easily tested, given the system is deterministic, right?

Would be strange to have a conscious being that could be rewound and replayed exactly given identical inputs.