I got fed up and unsubscribed from communities like asklemmy just yesterday, because it was constantly just stupid topics. In a lot of cases the title would propose a question and the body of the message would already have a multiple paragraph long answer.
My takeaway from the article is that these "costs" are what it would have cost to actually license the use of a celebrity for every random ai social media post.
Basically the same copyright math they have been using for years, where every pirated copy of something is a loss of the full msrp.
I have a blink camera, not a doorbell camera, but just a regular outdoor camera that I have near the front door. The batteries in it lasted nearly a year before they needed replacing. Curious how long it was lasting in your doorbell camera? I would expect it to be similar unless it's basically recording constantly or something.
I think there are definitely ways to do these data centers that have minimal external impacts, but it costs money and time, and they are trying to rush these through as fast as possible.
Can confirm I have seen tons of articles over the years of residents complaining about low frequency hum from wind turbines. Just Google it.
In comments sections, it generally gets written off as bullshit or the residents just hating clean energy. Now the same scenario comes up for data centers and people want to accept it as a legitimate problem.
I dunno, but maybe being exposed to a constant non-stop noise that never turns off might not be good for humans, no matter what the source is.
Most article thumbnails these days are ai generated. To be honest it wasn't much better before when article thumbnails were just stock images vaguely related to the article.
There are cultures where sweet foods are less common or less extreme. They eat American sweets and complain that they don't like it because it tastes too sweet, or they will complain that America sweetens foods that they normally don't expect to be sweet.
I grew up having constant access to sweets. While I have never been obese, I do struggle with addiction to sweets and it is a constant challenge to try not to overdo it.
Michel Gondry made some amazing videos, and one of my absolute favorites was Cibo Matto's Sugar Water. Blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/EN9auBn6Jys
No, this applies to the old mp4 codecs like xvid/divx. Mpeg4 AVC is still patented in some jurisdictions.