Once again, this regime is taking its cue directly from the Nazis.

I sincerely hope that this meaningful initiative will not be undermined by employees complaining about difficult communication with other federal states, as unfortunately they all use MS.

Yes, I cannot for the life of me understand how this decision is supposed to save the German automotive industry. It will not stop the rapid development of BEV cars, which already perform very well in many respects today.

Perhaps the reasoning is that the industry has fallen so far behind that there is no longer any prospect of catching up with the technological lead of way more innovative manufacturers. However, further lobbying by this influential industry could well continue to hold back the expansion of the charging infrastructure. This would then provide arguments in favor of combustion engine models for some time to come. Of course, this would severely hamper the future viability of Germany and probably also Europe, but this clique is certainly capable of it despite the massive negative effects.

I mean, until around 2003, Germany was the world market leader in photovoltaic systems—today, the country hardly plays a role in this industry anymore because it never received the support it needed to remain competitive. The same parties that are now at work here again were responsible for this - and there was of course massive lobbying involved.

I consider this not only a failure of political and economic leadership, but also unscrupulous cronyism at the expense of Europe’s future viability in favor of large corporations that have no interest in innovation whatsoever and even actively prevent it in order to protect their core business.

Agreed

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.

That’s true, but culture has also been a business for a long time. What you see and hear is the result of this, because there are media that reinforce your awareness of your senses. If you think that you would remain unaffected by this, you don’t understand my point.

Is dictated make-believe still culture? I don’t think so, but that’s what it boils down to.

Honestly, I can’t understand how you can’t see that, because it’s been the case all over the world for a very long time. Take a look at the so-called social media applications. Do you seriously believe that what people see there has anything to do with who they really are? With their every day lives? What they understand as culture based on their experience there?

Yes, of course, the real world still exists, but do you really think it’s independent of what people see online?

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.

The question is what the future will look like when culture is created by machines. This is already very evident today with all the social media bots and the logic that directs the attention of the remaining human users. The result is already quite dystopian, don’t you think?

Yes, that’s true, but until now, people could still make a decent living from scraps. That is no longer the case.

Then I can turn it into a business. With LLMs, that’s hardly a problem anymore. Don’t worry: I’ll do it alongside my job - just a hobby that brings in some nice extra income.

I am neither a musician nor a particularly good writer, but I am somewhat good with LLMs. Thank you very much for your encouragement. That removes all my ethical doubts about closing this chapter. If it has always been this way, then I don’t need to worry about it anymore.

What makes you so sure, when there’s not even the prospect of making a living from it anymore? Do you think most artists do it as a hobby?

There are many people who make a living from it. Where else do you see them earning a living?

You don’t seem to understand what I mean at all. I mean people who try to make a living from their creative work. Do you think that’s still possible?

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.

William T. Kelley, one of his professors at Wharton Business School, where the orange one “earned” his bachelor’s degree, also seemed to have summed it up quite well. According to close friends, he said on numerous occasions:

Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!

Whether this is true can no longer be objectively verified, as Kelley has passed away - but it is supported by the fact that Trump’s grades are unavailable - they are kept secret, which in itself says it all…

Yep, Grok is probably already working on it, or at least getting people excited about it…

Yes, Israeli Zionists have been playing the anti-Semitism card for decades. It is a perfidious, self-reinforcing strategy: the more completely legitimate criticism of Israel’s inhumane actions is silenced with this argument, the more it feeds actual anti-Semitism.

This is supported by the Mossad’s skillful intelligence work, which obviously gathered a lot of dirt on politicians around the world - there is simply no other explanation for how a small, rather insignificant state like Israel has gotten away with the most heinous atrocities for decades.

This is mainly attributable to the US, but also to Germany, my home country, where the anti-Semitism card has an even stronger effect due to its terrible past. As a German citizen with an awareness of history, it is all the more repulsive for me to see how obvious war criminals shamelessly use the Holocaust in order to commit genocide themselves.

Yet it is quite simple: Israel is not Judaism. It is a criminal but sovereign state that commits genocide. This has nothing to do with religion, but exclusively with the inhuman ruthlessness of their criminal regime.

And yes, this is also supported by the population, just as it was in the Third Reich, since Israel is also a deeply authoritarian state, but these are not “the Jews”, but the citizens of a State, the citizens of Israel, a country that commits the most terrible war crimes and tries to justify them by referring to history - it is a scandal that this still works, it is a crime against their own ancestors and has absolutely nothing to do with anti-Semitism; except that it very deliberately promotes anti-Semitism in itself in order to portray Israel’s actions as the views of “the Jews” - which is, of course, not at all the case.

They have even introduced absurd concepts such as the “self-hating Jew” to prevent Jews from insisting that they want nothing to do with the deeply racist, inhumane Zionism of Israel.

It couldn’t be more unscrupulous.

These people are truly the scum of the earth - and by “these people”, I don’t mean a religious group, as these people would like to portray it, but Netanyahu, the Israeli government, and all their henchmen.

The connection to Israel is becoming increasingly obvious. Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister, was also involved in setting up this fascist enterprise - with the kind assistance of Jeffrey Epstein!

Many thanks also to the politicians here in Germany who first signed a completely illegal contract with these bastards and then specifically amended the police law to undermine the constitutional rights of citizens after the fact.

It really is a terrible world we live in, because no one is stopping the most unscrupulous of all people. Well, this is what the end stage of the free market economy looks like.