Why not get user consent first?

Most of our politicians seem to think it is, so maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Vocaloids are hardly similar to fully AI-generated songs. Vocaloids are still human controlled.

And also that VOCALOID uses "traditional" signal processing techniques as opposed to generative deep learning techniques.

I'm convinced that the majority of people hyping up AI don't actually interact with many people in real life, let alone people that aren't software engineers.

To those of us on the cutting edge, the opinion of the average person when it comes to these things is totally irrelevant. I see the benefit and possibilities with my own eyes, I don't need the confirmation or denial of the average person.

All that said, I've already set up a few of my non tech close friends with Cowork and they are huge fans of it now. It's somewhat shocking how much menial repetitive work the average white collar job entails.

The average person dislikes AI not because it isn't useful. Anyway, we're more or less all on the cutting edge together

They're also paying out hundreds of millions to map "creators", the majority of which are pumping out low effort game modes like Steal The Brainrot. I can't help but feel this isn't helping their situation at all. Then again, Steal The Brainrot often surpasses the actual Fortnite game modes in player count, so maybe it is worth it. It doesn't seem like a sign of good health for Fortnite overall, though.

There has always been ethical and unethical hacking (and shades of gray in between).

In this case, it's more like asking your friends to take time to smell some feces instead of flowers.

Or to be a little less pessimistic, it's like asking them to stop and smell the flowers, except the flowers are fake and plastic and it makes your friends question your sanity. Either way, it's not a normal or enjoyable flower smelling experience, and doesn't add any enjoyment or simple pleasure to one's life like normal flower smelling would.

He forgot to actually curl it. Like someone else said, the weights are almost certainly not actually 500lbs. Even elite bodybuilders and strongmen in their prime don't come close to curling 500lbs, let alone an old man.

Looking at the video, if it was legitimate, it would be 585lbs (6 45lb plates on each side plus a 45lb bar), which is even less believable.

Realistically, it's more to protect from unhinged supporters of the current regime than the regime itself.

There are probably many more people that would profit off of it on HN.