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Re: What are you reading?
"Throughout history, societies facing existential threats have not responded with conservation but with spectacular abandon."
https://psyche.co/ideas/asteroid-economics-why-were-shopping-our-way-through-armageddon
Re: U Suck Postal Slobs
Waiting on a shipment that should have been here Monday. Shipped Friday, made it to St Louis Sunday Am, Springfield Tuesday (35 miles from me), then to KC today. Maybe Saturday it gets delivered
d_blades
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
Just got word I'm losing all of my OT at the end of the month. Gonna have to find a PT job for less money and more hours. Sucks.
ShawnOL
Re: Humidity Level Preferences; I Like My Cigars At XX% More Than YY%
My naked cigars seem to mold more than the ones in cello.
Yakster
Re: NEWBIE TRADING THREAD
Weather in Utah is weird. I went on a 4 hour motorcycle ride yesterday and got sunburned then rained on followed up by more sunshine and heat. It's supposed to be cooling down this whole weekend though.
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
They've already begun buying up all of the bottled water in town.
Wylaff
Re: What are you reading?
another entry-level occupation bites the dust:
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
BY JASON KOEBLER AND ZEYI YANG | 5-MINUTE READ
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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But in the United States, AI-generated influencers have already become wildly popular, AI-generated videos regularly go viral across the internet, and deepfaked and AI-generated ads are all over YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. It’s not hard to imagine a future where social media becomes an endless stream of AI-generated content interspersed with always-on, AI-generated avatars selling us stuff. Over the last few years, the technology required to make “virtual humans” like this has become far better, more accessible, and cheaper.
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-tiktok-shop-ecommerce-china/
