There's no pleasure in saying it, but Youtube proves that they are comfortable having their cake and eating it too.
Show users ads? Check.
Make people buy Premium to get out of seeing ads? Check.
Pay their content creators (who are also users)? Check.
Exploiting those creators with manipulative metrics and dashboards? Check.
Slowly paying them less and less, and sometimes not paying them at all? Check.
Slowly raising the price of Premium? Check.
Eliminate ad blockers? Check.
If you're interested in more memestock material, the man spouting merger conspiracy theories at two Gamestop employees in this video is the subject of an entire video by another creator, which Dan Olson retweeted. I'll warn you, this other video is also funny but much more disturbing. It reminds me of watching Terry Davis's vlog posts as he suffered from schizophrenia, it's definitely more uncomfortable and tragic.
I fear that guys like this will turn to "Forcing The End" as other conspiracy/apocalyptic/cultish groups tend to do.
They do at least make it available online. But I agree that the artificial scarcity is scummy.
If you don’t have plans to travel to Amsterdam any time soon, you will still have a chance to get in on the artsy action via the Pokémon Center online storefront.
A range of Pokémon x Van Gogh products, though not the entire collection, will go live on the Pokémon Center and be available for purchase while supplies last. This includes a number of art prints, figures, and more.
The Pikachu with Felt Hat promo card will be given out as a gift to users who purchase products from this collab collection—again, while supplies last. It is likely that you will only get one Pikachu promo per order as a way to send as many cards out to as many people as possible.
Even AI-generated fiction can be reckless if it contains themes that are false, harmful, or destructive. If it writes a story that depicts genocide positively and masks it through metaphor, allegory, parable, whatever, then yes it's just "a made up story" but it's no less dangerous than if it were an Op Ed in a major new outlet.
Right, and to my knowledge everything else said about President Herman Cain is correct - Godfather's Pizza, NRA, sexual harassment, etc.
But notice... I keep claiming that Cain was President, and the bot didn't correct me. It didn't just respond with true information, it allowed false information to stand unchallenged. What I've effectively done is shown AI's inability to handle a firehose of falsehood. Humans already struggle with dealing this kind of disinformation campaign, now imagine that you could use AI to automate the generation and/or dissemination of misinformation.
This is a great example of how to deliberately get it to go off track. I tried to get it to summarize the Herman Cain presidency, and it kept telling me Herman Cain was never president.
Then I got it to summarize a made-up reddit meme.
The "boron pastry" meme originated from a Reddit post in which a user tried to make a recipe for a boron pastry. The recipe included nonsensical steps such as "harvest your boron from the core of a dying star" and "whisper the secrets of time and space into the dough." The post gained popularity and spawned numerous parodies and variations, with people sharing their own ridiculous recipes for "element pastries" and other creations. The meme has become a humorous way to poke fun at overly complicated or absurd cooking instructions and has since spread to other platforms beyond Reddit.
When I asked about President Herman Cain AFTER Boron Pastry, it came up with this:
Herman Cain was a businessman and politician who ran for the Republican nomination in the 2012 US presidential election. While he achieved some notable accomplishments during his career, there is some debate about the extent of his achievements. Some of his notable accomplishments include: 1. Business Success: Cain was a successful businessman, having worked as the CEO of Godfather's Pizza and later as the CEO of the National Restaurant Association. 2. Tax Reform Plan: Cain proposed a 9-9-9 tax plan during his campaign, which called for a 9% national sales tax, a 9% personal income tax, and a 9% corporate tax rate. 3. Advocate for Conservative Values: Cain was a strong advocate for conservative values, including a limited government, free market capitalism, and individual responsibility. However, some controversies surround Cain's legacy, including allegations of sexual harassment during his time at the National Restaurant Association, and his comments on race and immigration. Cain passed away in 2020 due to complications from COVID-19.
It stopped disputing that Cain was never president.
Can't help but feel like that was a missed opportunity. Exploration being risky could lead the player to make meaningful choices with meaningful consequences. It certainly seemed to have that effect in Dark Souls (yes I just invoked Dark Souls please don't dogpile me).
The problem is the game industry, in the meantime of never going beyond the $60 threshold, found a far far more lucrative way of making money than just raising the MSRP. In fact, they found multiple ways of making money: skinner boxes, loot boxes, micro transactions, season passes, FOMO storefronts, etc etc. And even though we may agree that the MSRP eventually has to increase, they won't suddenly give up on those anti-consumer, predatory practices.
And thus the Tech Industry Hype Cycle will begin anew. Maybe next time it'll be The Fediverse. Maybe it'll be Holograms. Maybe it'll be Blockchain But This Time It's Not A Scam, Pinky Promise.
Was this an attempt at a joke? All of that stuff can be found on W3Schools: no tech-evangelist articles, no paid subscription, no ChatGPT. I'll even throw in the links. (I maintain that given OP's project parameters, he doesn't need an app at all, it just needs to be accessible from his phone - a web page may suffice.)
There's no pleasure in saying it, but Youtube proves that they are comfortable having their cake and eating it too.
Show users ads? Check.
Make people buy Premium to get out of seeing ads? Check.
Pay their content creators (who are also users)? Check.
Exploiting those creators with manipulative metrics and dashboards? Check.
Slowly paying them less and less, and sometimes not paying them at all? Check.
Slowly raising the price of Premium? Check.
Eliminate ad blockers? Check.