https://www.comparitech.com/kodi/kodi-piracy-decline/

https://www.digital-digest.com/news-64644-Netflix-Amazon-Join-Forces-with-the-MPAA-to-Sue-Kodi-Box-Maker.html

Based on our research, comparative search volume for “Kodi” has fallen around 85 percent from 2017 to 2022. Google Trends data reveals the dramatic decline started in Q2 of 2017 and has, for the most part, continued that trend up to this point. Consequently, the decline in people searching for Kodi directly relates to the appearance of the coordinated attack against piracy in the form of ACE.

And this is with Kodi furiously distancing itself from pirates at the time.

Attacks don’t have to be direct. Though they absolutely can be, too.

Eh I disagree with the power usage point, specifically. Don’t listen to Altman lie through his teeth; generation and training should be dirt cheap.

See the recent Z Image, which was trained on a shoestring budget and costs basically nothing to run: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2

The task energy per image is less than what it took for me to type out this comment.

As for if we “need” it, yeah, that’s a good point and what I was curious about.

But then again… I don’t get why people use a lot of porn services. As an example, I just don’t see the appeal of OF, yet it’s a colossal enterprise.

But if we can stop people from looking at the illegal/dangerous stuff, and use AI to create it, let those people watch that instead, I think that would be a net positive. Of course you’d want to identify them, tag them and keep them separate from the rest of people; it’s not a solution to the problem they create, but if you can reduce the demand for it, I dunno, I want nothing to do with that kind of stuff, but I feel like there’s a solution in there somewhere.

CP detectors got really good well before image gen was even a thing. They had to, as image hosting sites had to filter it somehow. So that’s quite solvable.

Look at CivitAI as a modern example.

They filter deepfakes. They filter CP. They correctly categorize and tag NSFW, all automatically and (seemingly) very accurately. You are describing a long solved problem in any jurisdiction that will actually enforce their laws.

If you’re worried about power/water usage, already solved too. See frugal models like this, that could basically serve porn to the whole planet for pennies: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2

IMO the biggest sticking point is datasets… The Chinese are certainly using some questionable data for the base models folks tend to use, though the porn finetunes tend to use publicly hosted booru data and such.

How do you feel about AI porn? Excluding deepfakes.

Fair enough.

Maybe just maybe they will see it as a waist of money and ditch it just like Facebook’s metaverse or whatever it was.

This is what I’m trying to tell you! The only way to do that is tell them it doesn’t work for the intended purpose: helping customers sell Amazon stuff. They don’t care about people messing around with the bot, that’s trivially discarded noise.

Also I’m sure at this point all my conversion’s are being fed back in to train the next one.

It is not. It is quickly classified (by a machine) and thrown out.

If you want to fuck with the training set, get the bot to help you do something simple, then when it actually works, flag it as an error. Then cuss it out if you like. This either:

• Pollutes the training set with a success as a “bad” response.

• Creates a lot of work for data crunchers to look for these kind of “feedback lies.”

And it’s probably the former.

Don’t tell it its wrong, leave feedback in a seperate box.

Not in its chat, but with a feedback button.

Let me emphasize: the LLM remembers nothing. Amazon does not care about an ‘adversarial’ response. All cussing it out possibly does is factor that into your Amazon ad profile, and not to your benefit.

And if you tell the bot it did wrong, it does not care. It doesn’t factor into anything.

But if you legitimately ask it to help you buy something, and it gets that wrong, and you leave dedicated feedback, that registers for Amazon. It tells them their chatbot isn’t working, but actually frustrating customers trying to use it to buy something. That’s how you tank the program.

You aren’t talking to AI, you’re talking to chatbots with no memory, nor ability to change their internal state; you don’t have to worry about that. Honestly its a waste of your keystrokes and brainpower, as you are shouting into a void.

…If you want to attack it, try getting it to actually do something (like find me an item with X requirements), then give feedback that its wrong if theres a button for it. That does get registered.

If you think of Kadyrov

Yeah, the Chechen guy.

he’s visibly very unwell

I don’t wish sickness on folks, but honestly, that’ll help me sleep easier. What he says in public is scary.

Oh yes. Vipers are death traps, albeit rarer ones.

It’s also a very successful racecar, apparently because the gigantic displacement is advanteous for league detuning (like air restrictors).

That sounds right.

Though really its just so much power on rear wheels that does it. No suspension will save you from the torque breaking the wheels loose gunning it out of a turn.

IIRC mustangs were specifically notorious for this due to their rear solid axle suspensions, though even that is probably down to driver error.

The “inexperienced driver” thing is true though, especially with the higher powered ones.

That serves the purpose too. It’s harder to pin Plex as an “illegal distribution service” when you have to pay for access. Either the streamer or “distributor” can’t be very anonymous, which makes large scale sharing impractical.

On the other hand, the more money they squeeze out, the more they risk appearing as if they “make money from piracy,” which is exactly how you get the MPAA’s attention.

I dunno if it counts, but all the DCAU. Batman TAS, Batman Beyond, Superman, Justice League, annd more, all slices at different times with crossovers.

And Young Justice isn’t technically a part of it, but it feels post DCAU in spirit.

TIL.

What they should really have is bypass mufflers, where that loudness only comes at high RPM.

Sadly, most do not…

Huh? Racing corvettes have good records against Ferraris and Porches, going decades back:

Here’s a street corvette keeping pace with a tuned Ariel Atom, a horrifically fast track car, round the nurburgring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZs7Ta2SSk

The “corvette meme” is that they’ll kill you in a crash, not that they’re slow around corners. They are not slow around corners.

You may (half) joke, but MPAA attention on Jellyfin would suck.

Every news site is biased. Read them with that mind.

As an example, one of my usual sources since like 2015 is Axios. Their site is clean, lean, and they are extremely well sourced in Washington. But they recently got a big cash infusion from OpenAI. And, surprise surprise, they post a small but steady stream of Tech Bro evangelism on the side now.

RT is generally awful, but sometimes their reporting outside of Russia, where they have incentive to dig, can be good.

Hence, my bucket for Guardian is “high class liberal catnip .” They are clickbaity. That’s they trend so much here on Lemmy.

They’re well sourced. Their integrity is leagues beyond, say, rawstory or dailybeast that get spammed on Lemmy. So you have to filter their stories with that in mind.

And this is pretty much what ALL written news is doing to survive, if they can. Because their competition on YouTube/Facebook/whatever is not bound to the same standards they are.

If they don’t, they die.

I used to write small articles for a tech hardware site. The owner chose to take the site down rather than chase the clickbait game.

“Why is the world this way?” says the blue checkmark Tweeter clutching their phone.

Though to be fair, many are more disingenuous cash farming influencers.