Ai costs under $10 though, you wouldn’t be able to hire a human for that

Pretty sure 90% of the posters of the type at the top of the article are made for $0. I bet for $10 you could get real artists from non-Western countries to make a simple poster, but these days people would probably claim those $10 jobs and then have AI generate them anyway.

right, even worse... if you paid 5X that you'd still be getting whatever was the first idea that came to mind

You're easily in 10X territory to get something pretty basic with a round of feedback and maybe 50X to start to get something good

the low to mid range of any visual design market has essentially been destroyed

Destroyed or democratized? I'd question the financial judgement if a local fair actually paid a designer for a poster and revisions, versus just literally typing something in Word and adding some clip art.

obviously a lot of nuance, but depends on the scale of the fair at least... some have sizable design and marketing budgets

you could still use clip art so this isn't democratizing shit, it's laundered copyright theft

it's also destroying the market for royalty free stock art by essentially cloning copyrighted art

the entire economy for this sort of design is being absorbed by venture capital, it's not even like a traditional -> digital art shift

the problem is that AI does better than those students, especially if you don't know what good design looks like... which is most people

but of course this means the entire market will dry up because no one pays students anymore

> so why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?

They deny everything, no matter how low the stakes. See, for example, the reflecting pool fuss.

Indeed it's likely foolish to read into all the pure stupidity at this point

I think they call this "flooding the zone"

Because they are flailing? Fuel prices will decide the midterms. There are pockets of die hards but after asking plenty of trump voters, they aren't happy. As long as the democrats in the US keep the identity shit to a minimum and make gains on actual issues likr housing and healthcare they can't lose.

> they can't lose.

Thanks for the laugh. The Dems have a habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

You think those "losses" aren't (to a degree) calculated? They are going to try their damnedest to win enough seats to do what they want, without winning so many that they'd have to do what they must.

The greatest career move a politician can make is to take an issue that lots of people are suffering from and make sure it is never solved but people still think they are the one who can solve it. This is Bernie's whole career (among others).

Bernie is one of the few politicians that have a voting record which aligns with their rhetoric, going back decades.

Bernie never won the presidency though?

Being president pretty much ends your power/influence. So if you don't get what you want accomplished, you're not getting it done. As a Senator, you get 6 years every time you win an election. With that, some people are more effective not being president.

I don't dislike Bernie, I'm pointing out a trend among politicians.

I never said it wasn't going to be an incompetence slugfest

> so why are they seemingly hiding a small number like this?

Reflexive lies are basically the policy of this administration and party. They have demonstrated no interest in telling the truth about anything. The proper question is: Why would they start telling the truth now?

Their base has already demonstrated that there is no red line. There is no lie they could tell that would suddenly disillusion the MAGA-types.

In today's information environment, why would you ever admit to anything that hurts you? There seems to be no penalty for dishonesty.

During conflict, which side is winning or losing is usually counted in number of body bags sent home. These tend to influence voters tremendously. Anything to tell a good story on that front.

In a conflict, the side that is winning is the side that still has the will to fight.

Having enough soldiers alive with said will is usually a pretty important factor too.

58,000 US and 230,000 south vietnamese soldiers died during the Vietnam war.

Over 500,000 PAVN/VC soldiers died.

Who lost the will to fight, and the war?

Wars tend to end long before one side runs out of men between the ages of 13 and 73.

similarly, most AI datacenters aren't directly owned by the frontier labs

guess who holds the bag if capacity needs collapse

I hear a cacophony of voices echoing through the generations...

"if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?"

We are not even remotely close to being able to predict this in a way to apply it reliably. Plate tectonics and volcanology are incredibly difficult to forecast anything short-term in.

Yes, the powerful always do this. It might be challenging to find an exception.

It's not as rewarding to consider that you've reached your position by more good luck than effort, so you hand down advice from on high because clearly you're smarter than everyone else (doesn't help that many people treat you this was to gain access).

Then you continue to do whatever you want despite your own advice because of course... you're smarter than everyone else.

This is a similar problem with data brokers. They take public data laws to an extreme and resell easy access to the aggregated data. This easy access has created a tremendous number of problems unforeseen by the original intent of the access.

Public access to data used to mean "you make a request, wait a bit, maybe pay a small fee, and sometimes physically show up to city hall." The barriers meant that you had to make a job out of collecting a significant chain of data and most people wouldn't bother unless they really needed it.

Now it means pay some fee to a third party and get every piece of public data about a person instantly. You can get data from thousands of sources and subscribe to it.

It is robbery because you're not paying the person that produced the knowledge, you're paying the person that took the knowledge and put a chatbot interface on it.

It's different from search engines because you're not even getting the chance to monetize it yourself, you lose the ability to even show some ad for a pittance. Hell you don't even get credited most of the time. Many many people didn't give permission for the data to be ingested and used this way.

We've come out of decades of copyright infringement takedowns and pirating lawsuits only to end up in a position where people doing similar things as a corporation are making billions of dollars.