DandomRude
That's nice. I should do that sometime.
One or two on their phones, but I mean the tradition of looking at pictures together and reminiscing about the past. I don't get the impression that people still do that today.
I don't think so.
On the one hand, digital images seem more likely to get lost or forgotten sooner or later. This seems likely to me even when they are uploaded to social media platforms—I consider it highly doubtful that these media will archive images over long periods of time.
On the other hand, they don't seem to have the same significance as physical photos: I've never actually had anyone show me pictures on a screen, but I've often had people show me photo albums while telling anecdotes from the past.
Either way, I think the way we deal with photos has changed. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
No, what I'm saying is that the people that draw the marvle comics, animate them or write the plot won't make a living from that anymore for much longer. It's really as simple as that. Why? Because they make their living creative work, which is great.
But they already earn their living more from autographs at conventions than from the payment for their outstanding work. That too will soon be a thing of the past, because Marvel will not be renewing their contracts - leaving these talented people out on the street because they can no longer sign autographs if they are neither authors nor illustrators, nor animators or whater.
What does that add to the statement in the post? There are hundreds of thousands of such examples.
It doesn't change the statement: writers, artists, and all other creative professions are now in a much worse position than they have been ever before - and yes, disproportionate pay for even extraordinary achievements has always been been the case historically for these very important people. But with LLMs we have reached the point where it's not even enough for a dream scenario. There is no business model for this anymore.
There is no longer any money to be made because consumers do not pay for quality, but for mass and free content. The best example of this is the decline of journalism, which had always been financed mainly by advertising - this has not worked for twenty years because Google and social media platforms have completely taken over this business, which is why there is no longer any serious journalism today. It can no longer be financed because consumers cannot cover the costs, even if they wanted to, which is the case at all.
Yes, that's true, but until now, people could still make a decent living from scraps. That is no longer the case.
People paid very well in the past - although most of it publishers and the like. Still: Professionals could somewhat live from the scabs.
Today, however, all these business models are obsolete, even though they brought in billions until around the turn of the millennium.
My statement is quite simple: in the future, no one will even try the hopeless anymore, because there is not even a dream to be chased.
The conclusion is pretty obvious: there will only be AI slop, which is not even close to being a substitute for what has been lost.
There is already a term for this, which has long been a reality in many areas: Dead Internet - and this affects all industries that depend on this medium; without exception, this includes all entertainment industries that have ever existed. In other words: the entire cultural industry, which is doomed to die and is consequently dying.
Very good and very important!
Thank you to everyone who stands up against hatred and for a tolerant, humane society.
Yes, you can set that up. But most news communities such as /world, /worldnews, /news, and others are very US-centric. I wonder why that has to be the case when it should be clear to everyone by now that the White House is employing troll tactics.
The word you are looking for is probably "Niemandsvorbild," which means "nobody's role model".
It is a made-up word that is apparently sometimes attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, but it probably wasn't coined by him. It doesn't actually exist in the German language, but it is still easy to understand.
More common would be "Negativ-Vorbild" ("negativ role model") or "Antiheld" ("antihero"), although the latter describes a likable but imperfect protagonist in a work of fiction.
No, just software that is specifically designed for this purpose, so less applications like VLC and more applications like DeaDBeeF (or MPD for multiple devices). I'm just interested in what people use.