Matell is a public company but if it were taken private the accountants (or CEO) would still not require a deep knowledge of Barbie family relationships.
CEOs have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders. That's literally it. If "Metaverse" or "AI" makes line go up, they are legally obligated to talk about it.
The actual technology or product has nothing to do with the job of being a CEO the same way Mattel's accounting department doesn't need to understand where Skipper fits in the Barbie family tree.
Tidal is better than Spotify for music enjoyers. The quality is clearly labeled on each track and the UX has a focus on well, music. There aren't any podcasts or social features and other crap.
The reporters who pretend perfectly functional alternatives to Google don't exist are the same reporters that call twitter "The Internet" and if they left at all, went to BlueSky.
I wish more Lemmy communities took action against the 10-12 accounts who spam stale memes all day, but I think they are afraid of appearing too "dead" to outsiders.
Will inevitably become overrun with slop. The large platforms have had human slop on them for years, AI is only speeding it up.
What protects the Fediverse is that instance owners have no financial incentive for growth because every piece of content, every federated instance increases their hosting costs. And any instance that somehow becomes too big to properly moderate will quickly become mass de-federated form.
I turned to Amazon's chatbot to ask if a particular appliance had a switch or a button because it wasn't obvious from the photos, and well, it got it wrong.
I honestly have no idea what anyone is actually using these things for.
The only thing that the report sees for certain in the current situation is a quick division into winners and losers in the AI race. Big players who are able to absorb the costs will emerge as victors.
Victors in what? LLMs cost orders of magnitude more to operate than they generate in revenue and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon as costs keep going up.
Lemmy.world may have ragebait, but every instance is a different experience.