Can I use my current google speakers with homeAssistant? Can they still do the ‘grouped speakers’ things? Can I still ‘cast’ media?

CF panel? Your light bulb??

I mean, those are kinda two sides of the same coin. Both ways to limit the compounding of wealth in few hands.

I’m open to all these ideas, and more

Putting the 2 statements side by side implies they are connected. For the media illiterate it can be very misleading.

Initially I wanted to defend the headline because it’s not ‘literally’ suggesting any AI wrongdoing, but I can say that because I know headlines are written to be this way so I know what to dismiss. It’s a manipulative practice and that’s a shame

I’m technophobic. Fucking clankers

They’re not issues so much as nit-picks.

On the now playing screen, I try to swipe the album image to skip (like Spotify) but it doesn’t. Yes, the skip button is right there, but when driving it’s needlessly distracting to have to find the small button.

There’s no obvious way to see your play history when it’s on auto play or radio.

You can start a station from a single song, and you can add song variety to a single-song station, and you can let a playlist end and it will autoplay songs, but you can’t create a station from a playlist directly. These seem like the same function but are treated differently.

You can ‘collect’ or ‘👍’ a song from radio/autoplay, and it’s implied that it influences the station to do the latter, but all the 👍 songs go to their own playlist and sometimes a ‘songs you liked from this station’ playlist separate from the station and sometimes in the station page. It can unintuitive.

There’s no API so there’s no way for TuneMyMusic to import my playlists from Spotify.

Adding a song to a playlist often fails the first time, I can mash it but it doesn’t go, but if I back out and add it again it works.

Some of these can be chalked up to user error, I haven’t gotten used to the paradigm change, but the app still feels rigid and “less polished”. Like I said, nitpicks.

I tried Tidal, and now I’m on Pandora. The ‘radio’ feature of Pandora more closely matches the way I want to listen to music (I feel like playing this, stay in this mood, but vary the artists), but I’m disappointed by the android app. I should also try Qobuz, maybe even Deezer, but the real pain point is that I have literally thousands of playlists on Spotify. I can pay TuneMyMusic again, I guess

I used to use and praise Spotify and their algorithm, but I was starting to find that it would insist on playing the same 20 or 50 songs regardless of the playlist I was trying to generate music suggestions from. I read a rumor somewhere that it was a way to decrease the load on their servers and rely more on the cached songs already on the device, and got sick of that enough to switch to Pandora after over 10 years of Spotify

If you’re doing this through Google or whichever company is facilitating, then I would say that’s the party doing all of the things listed.

But yes, I presented it in the context of just the two parties, so your point is still valid

Seems like the underlying tension is wether being surveiled at all is inherently a violation.

If it is, then your partner doing it might feel like a lack of trust.

for my benefit Its not a benefit if you don’t like being tracked

If not, then it’s just a practical tool, might as well use the data if it’s getting captured anyway.

These conservatives are old, so they are trying to “conserve” ideals that were out of touch in their own time

This is so sick, great tool

No no, couldn’t have that, would be a shame

Convenience at an all time high, wealth inequality at astronomical levels.

Times are different, complaints are valid

If your argument is that “AI is just a tool and Capitalism is the real boogeyman, again” then I absolutely agree with you.

My gripe is that openAI and Meta are clearly scraping from copyrighted media but because of the scale of the scraping it’s not ‘stealing’ in the traditional sense. While we’re bickering about the semantics of legality, this tool is being weaponised to further wealth inequality.

And to be clear, I’ve been referencing the AI companies and movie studios, not the technology itself.

Only if its profitable, and given that Al output is inherently very limited, it won’t be. Al can only produce lower quality

This is literally already happening. The SAGAFTRA screen actors guild had to negotiate new contracts against studios that were using AI as a bargaining chip to lower their wages

But we’re AI users going to pay?

In your head is AI being used solely by common people for fun little prompts? If you build this machine that replaces the artist, corporations can and will use it that way.

Big movie studios will use it to generate parts (and eventually all) of a movie. They can use this as leverage to pay the artists less and hire fewer of them. Animators, actors, voice actors.

you want the rich and powerful to stop pirating and freebooting artist’s work, maybe the first step is to ban that (or rather, enforce it) rather than a technology two steps removed?

If a movie studio pirated work and used it in a film, that’s against copyright and we could sue them under current law.
But if they are paying openAI for a service, and it uses copyrighted material, since openAI did the stealing and not the studio then it’s not clear if we can sue the studio.

Logically we would pursue openAI then, but you’re arguing that we shouldn’t because it’s “two steps removed”.

Seems like it’s being argued that because of the layer of abstraction that is created when large quantities of media is used, rather than an individual’s work, that it’s suddenly a victimless crime. That because what’s being done is not currently illegal it must not be immoral either.

The protein-folding ai is not the same as the generative ai.

It’s really unfortunate that the conversation around AI lumps these different technologies together

Generative ai is a tool that must be used carefully else the kids will take the easy path.

The logic behind it being the back leg is that the long talon is on the rear legs only, which naturally raises the question how is the philosoraptor standing, and this was the result.

One of my favorite things from those old days

“Eli, Man-Idiot, at your service”