Honestly the DMCA strikes are probably way better on YouTube than the alternative of getting hit with lawsuits and cease and desists on a specialist site. The amount of things that are considered normal now on YouTube that were just straight up considered copyright infringement prior to YouTube getting massive is wild for anyone who was in media and used to having to get clearances and pay royalties for anything that wasn’t public domain. Those expectations haven’t changed, and the laws haven’t either, it’s just YouTube has done a lot to normalize things, and license things for the whole platform where they can, because they know it helps keep the site alive. But if you aren’t under the protection of the platform and their agreements, the consequences can get way worse.

I went to college for filmmaking. Being a field that revolves around communication, we ended up learning some fundamentals of communication theory. By definition, communication happens when the “listener” percieves a message - whether that message was intended or not. No matter how much work and thought you put into your message, if you shout it into the void, it isn’t communication. Likewise, you can say nothing in a room full of people, and still unintentionally communicate just by being seen.

The percieved intelligence of LLMs very much feels like a result of this. There is no intelligence in the machine, we’re just percieving communication from a probability machine, and thinking that it’s intelligent and trying to communicate with us.

This. If the attendant/clerk is telling me about the self checkout, I’m going to assume they don’t want to deal with ringing me up, and I’ll happily handle my own shit even if they are standing there on their phone not “working.”

Now if a manager tells me to use the self checkout? Fuck that, absolutely, I don’t work here. But I’ve got solidarity with the underpaid employees who’d rather not deal with me.

I’m sure you’ll do a great job as mod. Thanks for starting this community.