The NYT article that the one above alludes to also suggests Gen Z has generally very high savings rates, which of course makes it more likely for people to have to dip into these savings if there's no financial buffer.
I mean, Sam Altman was literally throwing movie nights at OpenAI HQ with the movie "Her".
So either he didn't get it or his copy conveniently ends at halftime.
Right. If I had dumped all my money into AI stonks and was overall deeply invested into silicon valley I'd sell the doomer story, too. Keeps the bubble alive.
Meanwhile the REAL threat of the AI hype, i.e. overburdening ecosystems with ridiculously hungry data centers and putting children's sanity in the hands of a hallucinating sycophantic autofill can be entirely ignored because "AGI BAD SO WE MUST BUILD AGI".
Probably not a flash drive but you can get decent mileage out of 7b models that run on any old laptop for tasks like text generation, shortening or summarizing.
Response Type is decided by ChatGPTs new routing function based on your input. So yeah. Asking it to "think long and hard", which I have seen people advocating for to get better results recently, will trigger the thinking model and waste more resources.
Don't threaten, just do it. Enshittification must end.
The only reason we have mainstream paid video streaming now is because early Netflix was genuinely better than dodgy, pop-up riddled mirrors on movie4k.to. The convenience was well worth 8 bucks a month. Same for Spotify.
Fast forward 10 years and Spotify wants me to pay 15 €, scan my face and listen to forced podcast ads AND pay extra for paywalled audiobooks that used to be free? Meet my good old friend youtube-downloader, then.
I miss r/dontdeadopeninside