An interesting gotcha that I don't see universities actually addressing on any of this...
English-as-a-Second-Language students are generally being given a pass to use AI freely. The thought is that proper grammar and writing aren't what's being graded for many papers.
The problem is that they can just let AI write the paper and say "I only used AI for grammar".
That was my experience also. Within minutes of spinning up any new subdomain with a dedicated A DNS record, I had bots that scraped it from https://crt.sh/ knocking on the door.
With wildcard subdomains and relatively obscure URLs, it's pretty quiet.
They have a lot less runway to enshittify than everything else we've seen recently. Because AI is way more expensive than anything else we've gotten for "free". Which means they're already on borrowed time.
Hopefully they get it over with sooner rather than later. The longer it takes, the more my retirement savings gets fucked.
Unfortunately, like GPUs during the cryptomining era, consumers have shown their hand as to just-how-many-people will pay insane exorbitant prices. Remember when you could pay $200-300 every 2 years and get about double the GPU power? (It was only 5 years ago...) Nvidia & AMD learned that they no longer had to offer that anymore.
RAM prices have quadrupled in a year. Yet 25% of gamers still plan to upgrade this year, and 40% in the next 2 years. Even if we make believe that the previous status-quo was "everyone upgrades every year" (which is obviously a gross overestimation), this is a huge "line-going-up" scenario for the RAM manufacturers.
Why would they even bother lowering prices until forced to do so?
I went from paying SchedulesDirect $25/yr to hack an EPG into a series of dead & dying DVR software platforms (SageTV, WMC, etc).... To just doing the one-time Plex lifetime sub for $70ish.
It has more than paid for itself at this point... If they reneg an make it expensive someday in the future, maybe then I'll reconsider Jellyfin.
It's been a year or two since I gave up on Jellyfin, so maybe it's better now... But the Android TV client was rough, rough, rough when I tried using it.
If you watched Live TV, the transcode buffer would just keep going and fill your entire disk over the course of a few days after you shut down the client and stopped watching.
It was a coin toss whether you'd actually be able to stream any given movie. If you had media with more than 6 audio channels, and also needed to transcode (because you live in the U.S. and don't have unlimited upload bandwidth).... playback would just die right around the 5-10Mbps range. I spent a weekend on the forums chasing down the exact scenarios that caused this one, someone had a Pull Request that fixed it in a matter of hours (by mimicking the transcode logicr of the official desktop client)... and the dev told them to kick rocks
An interesting gotcha that I don't see universities actually addressing on any of this...
English-as-a-Second-Language students are generally being given a pass to use AI freely. The thought is that proper grammar and writing aren't what's being graded for many papers.
The problem is that they can just let AI write the paper and say "I only used AI for grammar".