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No you can’t. Attention is scarce. That’s why it’s called “attention economy”. In fact, it was far easier to force idiotic ideas onto the screens of millions of people before the internet came along. That’s what TV commercials were.
I never expected them to provide any privacy of any sort, but I don’t think they could make matters worse. Privacy.com has been extremely convenient for me, private or otherwise.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts...
I could absolutely see an AI model doing the job of an entire film crew. I have issues with this, but only with respect to the longer term aggregate affects on culture in the broad sense. I cannot honestly believe that much would be lost from the perspective of one project or another.
Edward Hopper was pretty impressive.
Computer historians always downplay this major historical hingepoint for a few reasons, but usually because doing so helps conceal just how much the modern computer industry depends on technology which could only have been developed by the public sector.