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Any reason for them to do this other than altruism? I don’t think this can be regulated.

Bake ads into them.

Definitely experimenting with less expensive ones. I have a few versions of my settings.json

I also wonder if token utilization has or will ever find its way to employee performance reviews as these models go up in price.


This reminded me of the shift from gambling with cash and a bookie connected to the mafia, to draft kings/fanduel to prediction markets. In the end the house always wins.


There is considerable evidence that it was not unexpected.


I believe that was the point being made.


Remind me in two weeks?


Cave? That’s the boring company, this is the space company.


Sat through an AI demo by an AI SaaS today. It was good but the work just shifted from the left to the right.


Anyone surprised?


Honestly, making the content unavailable for anyone who hasn’t already downloaded it by blocking the entire account is probably not the worst thing. Also, family account?


>Also, family account?

My understanding is that Google banned all users that had been logged into that family device.


Why not ban the offending account only? Is there a logic i'm missing?


From Google's point of view, very little downstairs to banning those other accounts. And the upside is that they reduce their legal risk: "We automatically blocked the account that was generating the kiddie porn, as well as the other accounts that had been logged into that device."

It's probably as simple as that…


Yes, the logic you're missing is "protect the children"


Tom and his team were cheating and penalized accordingly but likely not enough, but more than the Astros.


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