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Trump Media shares fall 7% after saying Truth Social to launch TV streaming platform (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Ah yes, the good ol' pivot to video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

    From the wiki page:

    only advertisers, not consumers, prefer video over text.

    This is so goddamn true it's not even funny. One thing in particular that really pisses me off is when I'm looking for a relatively simple piece of information, like how to beat a level I'm stuck on in a game, and every single result is a 15 minute video I need to scrub through in order to find the same information I could have scanned a text block for and found an under a minute.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I will search around for 10 minutes before I watch a video if I need a simple answer. I realize that's probably a bigger waste of my time, but I don't want to encourage that shit by adding to the algorithm.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    At a large technology conference I attended recently I saw a demonstration where the URL of the video was handed to an AI bot. Some very detailed prompts for requests for information were given to the bot and it pulled out all the info the user requested.

    So maybe we'll have ubiquitous AI to do the scrubbing for those 5 second answers now buried in 15 minute videos.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Sounds like it searched the subtitles, found the time stamps, and returned the relevant text. Useful, but ultimately a pretty simple bot.

    Much more impressive if it "watched" the video for the first time, formed it own subtitles, then pulled the data out. That would be a feat.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Much more detailed than that. In the video there was a 3 piece band playing for a few seconds on screen. The user prompt asked: "Tell me where I can buy the shirt the keyboardist is wearing at timestamp 32 seconds". The Bot found the website of the vendor selling the shirt.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Okay, that's pretty neat, but at the same time basically the same as loading a still image into a current AI image matching suite and having it identify a keyboard, then a shirt near the keyboard, then reverse image search that tshirt. It's super cool to be able to do, but kinda standard at this point.

    I guess the interactivity, being able to feed in a url on the fly is the value add. I still would have liked my "generate subtitles then search them" imaginary bot more though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not to mention, if the truth socialers can see each other, they'll be able to see what fugly chuds they all are.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have a related thought. A lot of people are not good at reading. Those people are underrepresented on a text platform like this, but they're out there.

    Something like half of US adults cannot read at an 6th grade level. ( https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy )

    The us' education system is spotty. That doesn't help. There's also a long podcast about how reading is often taught badly: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ (yes, it has a transcript)

    But there are probably a lot of people who secretly sigh with relief when they find that five minute video instead of the two paragraph answer. They legit struggle to read it, and that's uncomfortable and embarrassing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a fair point. Someone close to me would be like this.

    That said, if a chatbot can explain verbally, would that be better than video in most cases ?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Verbally like read aloud? Probably worse because at least with video you can usually fast forward and see the preview to get a gist of what you're looking at. Like if it's a video game walkthrough I can fast forward until I see a part I recognize

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just goes to show that enshitification hits everyone.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why does this go to show that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    From the wiki page:

    only advertisers, not consumers, prefer video over text.

    I'm saying even Truth social isn't immune to wall street fuckery.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ok, that's not enshittification though.

    Enshittification is when a company initially provides a good service, often at competitive prices. But as their market saturates (or they just establish as a monopoly), they start turning to shittier and shittier ways to increase profit due to demand that businesses must continually grow profits, or they fail.

    "Enshittification" isn't the same as "stuff gets shittier".

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Steam forums are your friend.

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