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Famous actors will probably only be able to sell their likeness for sequels, for new film series, they won't need established stars, if you look at Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and James Bond, the films used relative unknowns so famous actors aren't all that special to a successful film, they may help not as much as a 20 million USD may like to think. The Bourne films could have been just as successful with an unknown and could easily be done with an AI actor.
Film cost production may come down but will tickets?
Does explain why we got no new Bond, AI Bond, lol.
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Gemini 3, one minute ago. Good luck, USA, and good luck to us, NATO partners.
if you are a famous actor, singer, or anything, you can sell rights to your image. If you are a newcomer, you will struggle. AI is going to pretty much end the possibility of upward mobility.
Except they've been rolling out new functionality within Search Console for the last two months. Admittedly, they've still not added explicit AIO/AIM reporting for impressions/citations/clicks, which SEOs are crying out for, but they have said this information is included in the regular performance report.
It's true AI is a loss maker for some companies such as Open ai, kept afloat by investors such as Microsoft. Anthropic is helped by Google. Eventually the tide will turn and they'll be bought.
AI overviews are actually hurting Google with AdSense but Scumdar is either too stupid or good at deflecting.
Reading the paper today, saw an article about Animation creating the first fully ai television series Non Player Combat, a survival television series, quite scary what you can do. It was produced for 21,000 which compared to an episode of UK traitors at 75,000 , you know it's going to concern for jobs and films,. When films cost 100+ million to produce, film companies are definitely going to take an interest. Gone are the days when actors could command 20 million for a film. Most people will watch a film for story not actors and so it begins.
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And then there are the indexing issues that haven't been resolved for six months! When checking the news URL in Search Console, it says “URL available to Google,” but it's not showing up in search results for four-five hours!
For me, their shitty update started at the beginning of December. The website is half-dead. One day, signs of life, three days, dead. No income, no traffic, nothing. Thanks to Google for the holiday gift.
Lol I wouldn't put it past Google's greed to have ads on pilots HUD. Scumdar probably just went from 6 to midnight after hearing that idea to steal next.
Imagine pilots having to login to their Google account before they can even start the engines. Also pilots being served video ads in flight on their HUD. Could even have shell casings with video ads on them for funeral homes. LOL
Seems each day we're becoming more like the society in that movie Idiocracy.
Let's not forget people. Our websites used to be a discovery tool: you’d click into a few sites, fall down a rabbit hole, meet brands or products - you didn’t know existed, see a few products, read reviews,… and a bunch of buying happened but now that "discovery has gone" due to AI overviews/AI mode.
They seem brainwashed by it, it's just wierd. They think they can serve the entire internet and the advertisors will pay them --without making any sales as people are not clicking guys. Who is funding AI right this minute. Investors and our content they have used to make the thing.
Great. Corrupt AF Google and the corrupt AF gov't even more in bed together, now with the military. What can go wrong?
He might as cut the shit and just officially call it Skynet already.
Having successfully defeated publishers in a war fought with content theft and traffic starvation, the Google Crime Syndicate has proven itself worthy to the corrupt in Washington DC. Now onto the next phase where the Google Crime Syndicate will embed itself deeper into the American military and enjoy a heightened level of autonomy.
<b>Pentagon launches military AI platform powered by Google Gemini for defense operations</b> - <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/pentagon-launches-military-ai-platform-powered-google-gemini-defense-operations">https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/pentagon-launches-military-ai-platform-powered-google-gemini-defense-operations</a>
<blockquote>"The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said. "As technologies advance, so do our adversaries. But here at the War Department, we are not sitting idly by."</blockquote>
ChumpGPT links to the wrong pages, crawls Google scraped pages with "srsltid=" in the URL, etc. ChumpGPT is just a grossly overvalued AI Slop Engine. Only the best from Spam Altman.
This has been Google's strategy for many years. Monetize more keywords, even if it results in advertisers losing money on wasted ads.
I saw AI Max for what is was from the beginning, just another name for their strategy to get advertisers to lose money.
If it weren't for the recent court cases, advertisers would not have access to search terms data. Remember when they tried to take that away from us a year ago or so? It was so we couldn't see what they were wasting our money on.
Remember Pmax?
I get 3 calls a week from "Google Ads Experts" who simply want me to make my ads waste money on broad match keywords, search partner network, and etc. I block their phone numbers these days.
I thought the UK publishers complained to them? Honestly, I don't think Google will risk it, after all it don't make any money does it. Why protect something that is unprofitable, to the point of having to pay compensation of trillions. I would not risk it to protect a product that 1) the user does not want 2) they have AI mode and gemini 3) it does not make sense to keep going with this strategy. Against what ChatGTP that only 800 million a week use on a free plan. We have a declining economy in the West and it is not going to end well.
The final quarter coincides with Christmas so they are pushing it out now. They also do it whilst most aren't looking. By pushing it out now, they get the New Year sales rather than after.
As I said before, they've done a feature like that, but they've hidden it. I suspect it will stay hidden and because they blindly think AI MOde is the future will go down that.