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  1. On 2/19/2024 at 7:17 AM, Captainant said:

    Biggest difference maker I've seen is ingesting a bunch of reference and policy documents into a KB, and then an agent program listens into the call and proactively surfaces relevant docs and info, and gives some suggested next responses for the agent - all in real time integrated into the agents workspace. 

    The person on the call is still the ultimate filter for the info, but it really helps to reduce their mental load for new hires or when policy may change.

    I'd guess this is already happening based on the occasional shitty chat experience with live customer agents. I've found if you ask them whether they're a real person or if you're speaking with AI Chat, it breaks the spell and they cease to mindlessly forward the AI (non) answer to the question I've asked. I believe this was with amazon.

     

    21 hours ago, Goredho said:

    My anniversary is coming up, so I decided to see if I could delegate conveying my personal, heartfelt emotions to AI.  This is pretty awesome!  With very little effort you too can be a digital Mr Wonderful doll, at least in written text.

    Prompt:   Write a heartfelt letter to my wife for my anniversary. Please convey how important she is to me and how much I love her. Don't be too flowery with the words, make it sound informal and personal.

    Edit:  The immoral hacker in me wants to see a catfishing mashup that integrates with online dating websites and ChatGPT/DALL-E to see how many people could be fooled into falling head over heels in love for an AI generated persona.  I'm too lazy to ever act on that, but I bet you could catch a lot lonely hearts out there.

    No offense intended but the output doesn't read like AI to you?

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  2. 3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

    Google says: Ideocracy (a portmanteau word combining "ideology" and kratos, Greek for "power") is "governance of a state according to the principles of a particular (political) ideology; a state or country governed in this way".

    Idiocracy means a society governed or populated by idiots. Which spelling and definition do you think he was going for? Either way it doesn't change the fact that OP and babayaga were the only 2 posters on the site to use the word "ideocracy."  I tend to think he meant to use idiocracy but could be wrong.

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  3. article - Trump owns 30% of 1290 6th Ave, which Steven Ross, actual real estate developer who knows he's doing, must've thrown him a bone. According to the NYP's real estate reporter, it's his best and possibly only asset that would allow raising the money necessary to appeal/pay the judgment. I recommend the article for the explanation about why every other Trump asset is garbage. However the maga brain worm comments in the posts at the end of the nyp article are -- not gonna lie -- entertaining af. 

    https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/business/the-nyc-skyscraper-trump-could-dump-to-pay-off-355m-fraud-fine-and-it-doesnt-even-bear-his-name/

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  4. On 2/12/2024 at 8:38 PM, henrygandorf said:

    i cruised through mr and mrs smith over the weekend and got an ad for an amazon show before each episode.  is that what they meant by ads?  i never got an ad mid-show.  maybe only movies are like that?

    They make a point to specify you're watching Mr & Mrs Smith "With Limited Advertising." IOW it's not as bad as it will be after they finish easing their way into it. I don't know about other tv series but it definitely impacts some movies negatively.

    We're on like ep 4 of M/Mrs Smith. Donald Glover's character is so fucking idiotic the show doesn't keep my attention. I can see why Phoebe Waller-Bridge walked off the set after 6 months.

     

  5. I wrote in the thread specifically about this disney/fox/hbod deal that the cable companies are losing their shit about the Iger sports package. I like this thread better for future discussion because it cuts across the entire industry. What disney/hbod/fox have planned is essentially a hulu lite product. I don't see the cable companies being able to stop it based on contractual issues and certainly not anti-trust but that won't stop 'em from trying, esp. Brian Roberts with Comcast. 

    I'll be interested to see if Disney still plans the espn stand-alone product or figures out a way to roll it into a bundle with the new Joint Venture.

    This article is from last Friday - https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/pay-tv-distributors-may-be-planning-their-attack-against-new-sports-joint-venture/ar-BB1ijUyj

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    It's been about a week since Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced a new joint venture to offer live sports outside the traditional cable bundle, and pay TV distributors are still trying to figure out just how disruptive the new service will be.

    The key question for distributors such as Comcast, Charter and DirecTV is whether they'll be allowed to offer the same skinny bundle of linear networks that Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced will be available to consumers later this fall. That bundle includes ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, Fox, FS1, FS2, and a handful of other cable channels that showcase sports.

    If Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox allow distributors to offer the same product, in addition to the standard cable bundle, there's likely to be minimal consternation about the joint venture. But it's not clear that will be the case, given that may defeat the purpose of its existence.

    In 2023, Charter began offering a package of cable networks that didn't include sports to lower the cost of cable TV for customers who only wanted news and entertainment. Offering sports to only those people who want to watch sports is good for distributors, but it's harmful to programmers, who benefit from the millions of households that pay for sports but don't watch them.

    That's why, logically, the new sports joint venture only makes sense if the three media companies bar distributors from offering the same product.

    So far, the largest pay TV distributors haven't spoken publicly about the forthcoming bundle because they're still gathering information on the joint venture's plans, according to people familiar with their thinking, who asked not to be named because the discussions have been private.

    Privately, however, leaders at Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox have begun to hear complaints from some distributors, who are concerned the new skinny bundle will lead to increased cable TV cancellations, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Pay TV distributors typically strike most-favored-nation deals with programmers that allow contracts to be replicated among like partners. It guarantees that a company such as Disney can strike a deal with DirecTV that's similar to its deal with, say, Dish.

    If the sports joint venture refuses to allow distributors the same terms as it's offering retail customers, distributors could either refuse to carry their networks when carriage renewal deals are up or even sue, according to Craig Moffett, an analyst at MoffettNathanson.

    "The distributors have been begging for the right to offer cheaper and skinnier bundles, especially bundles that would segregate expensive sports from cheaper non-sports programming, for at least two decades, and they've been met with a brick wall," Moffett said. "At the very least, this would seem to violate the most favored nation clauses that prohibit the programmers from offering better terms and conditions to another distributor, even if that distributor is a JV [joint venture] of the programmers themselves. I would be surprised if there aren't some lawsuits."

    Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox all rely on the pay-TV distributors for the bulk of their revenue.

    And while some stand to indirectly benefit from the potential popularity of the joint venture — Charter and Comcast, for example, could see a boost to their broadband businesses, since the digital app would require high-speed internet service for best performance — others, such as DirecTV, Dish and YouTube TV stand more directly in the crosshairs and could lose video subscribers.

    Still, early conversations between distributor executives and leaders at Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox haven't been particularly substantial, because limited information has been disclosed about the strategy of the joint venture, which hasn't been formally named or even legally agreed upon by the companies.

    "The formation of the pay service is subject to the negotiation of definitive agreements amongst the parties," Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox said in a statement last week.

    No leader for the joint venture has been named yet, although one has tentatively been selected, according to people familiar with the matter. Puck reported Tuesday the front-runner is former Apple executive Pete Distad.

    Disclosure: Comcast owns NBCUniversal, the parent company of CNBC.

     

     

  6. 21 hours ago, royiv said:

    I think Elon is taking birth control.

    All the illegal drugs that motherfucker ingests and now he's worried about women taking birth control...So very odd that he's very concerned about the side effects of only one medication while at the same time hates reproductive rights, women's rights and wokeism.

    Also I'm pretty sure he microdoses estradiol.

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  7. 6 minutes ago, miguelito said:

    So, to appeal, does he have to put up a large sum of money first? I thought I read that somewhere.

    Bond would forestall the immediate enforcement of judgment. But to post a bond he'll need a licensed surety and they'll require full payment or maybe even more than full payment as Brisket wrote (or collateral may suffice? If that's allowed in NY).

    If he doesn’t post bond, he could still appeal, but in the meantime NY could start attaching liens and seizing goods and property.

  8. 6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'm sure there's a Saudi bank that would be happy to loan it to him. 

    That was probably his first thought lol. The surety bond companies are going to require full payment to issue the bond anyway - because the chance of success on appeal is low. Whatever the laws pertaining to the origin of the money are...I'm sure his best and brightest are working on it. His business licenses now have an independent monitor though so that will (hopefully?) limit his opportunities to launder through foreign intermediaries, as he did before.

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    https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

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    CHEQ monitors bots and fake users across the internet in order to minimize online ad fraud for its clients. Tytunovich's company accomplishes this by tracking how visitors from different sources, such as X, interact with a client's page after they click one of their links. The company can also tell when a bot is passing itself off as a real user, such as when a fraudulent user is faking what type of operating system they are using to view a website.

    Most X users who are regularly on the platform can attest to a noticeable uptick in seemingly inauthentic activity in recent months. When a post goes viral on X, its now commonplace to find bots filling the replies with AI-generated responses or accounts with randomly generated usernames spamming a user's mentions with unsolicited "link-in-bio" promotions. Now, there's data which backs up that user experience.

    Advertisers have also noticed X's bot issues. In a recently published piece in The Guardian, Gene Marks, a small business owner shared his ad campaign results from X. After a small $50 advertising spend, X's analytics shows that his website had received 350 clicks from approximately 29,000 views. However, according to Google Analytics, X wasn't the source of any of the actual traffic his website had received during that time period.

    In our conversation with Tytunovich, he referenced an often cited stat that roughly half of all internet traffic is made up of bots, and how he's long been skeptical of that data based on what CHEQ itself sees.

    "We were always the conservative ones," Tytunovich explained regarding CHEQ's approach to fake user data. "We protect a lot of our customers on Google Ads, YouTube, and even TikTok, which I'm not a fan of, and we've always said 50 percent [being fake] is a bit opportunistic."

    "I almost decided not to go out [and publish the X bot data] because we've never seen anything like it," he said.
    X has a bot problem unlike anything else seen on competing platforms

    When X's Super Bowl traffic is compared to other social media platforms during the same time period, the bot issue on Musk's platform appears even more stark. CHEQ also provided data to Mashable pertaining to Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. In terms of fake traffic, no other platform came close to X's nearly 76 percent.

    Out of more than 40 million visits from TikTok, only 2.56 percent were determined to be fake. Facebook sent 8.1 million visits and 2.01 percent of the monitored visits were classified as inauthentic. And over on Instagram, only 0.73 percent of the 68,700 visits from the platform were fake.

    Tytunovich tells Mashable that it's not out of the ordinary to see spikes in fake traffic on social media platforms during big events like U.S. elections. However, he has never seen anything close to X's 75.85 percent.

    And, unfortunately for X, its bot problem goes beyond the big game too.

    CHEQ also provided Mashable with fake traffic data from the entire month of January 2024. TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram all had very similar stats to each platform's respective Super Bowl weekend numbers. Slightly more than 2.8 percent of the 306 million visits sent from TikTok were determined to be fake. Out of the 90 million visits that came from Facebook, a bit more than 2 percent were fake. And Instagram's traffic was only 0.96 percent fake, based on 749,000 visits.

    But, X once again fared the worst. Of the 759,000 visits from X, 31.82 percent of that traffic was determined to be fake.

     

     

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  10. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Damn, Nixon predicted in ‘94 that if Russia didn’t embrace democracy, that it would revert back to Russian Imperialism/despotism.  Basically replace communism with the old ways.

    An interesting fact about Nixon that may have changed history was that his first dream job was to work for the FBI and he actually got hired. But his job never started because it was cancelled due to budget cuts before his start day. Nixon was forced by circumstances to reject a place at Harvard Univ and attended a small liberal arts college instead, graduating summa cum laude, then on to Duke Law where he achieved academic distinction.

    This is in contrast to someone like umm what's his name...oh yes Tucker Carlson, who was a shitty student, went to a small catholic college where anyone with family connections or money could go, apparently avoided getting expelled, and thought that was enough that he'd be able to walk right into his dream job at the CIA but got flatly rejected.

    I was working on Capitol Hill in December 1992 and Nixon happened to be down the hall from me, giving well-wishes to a former House colleague who was retiring. I grabbed a (covered) copy of the US Constitution and a pen, and as he exited asked him to sign. He looked at me and wondered if I was trying to trick him but I just smiled and said please. He signed. Later I was told he gave out many, many autographs.

    He was nice to me but fuck him and and his pendejo buddy Henry.

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