OpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problem | The Vergecast

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I’d rather have a cor­rect answer in 60 sec­onds than a use­less answer in 10 and that’s basi­cal­ly it

The Verge needs to be cov­er­ing Google actu­al­ly inno­vat­ing. Gem­i­ni 2.5 Pro, YouTube (Pod­cast, TV, dynam­ic ads, etc.), Note­bookLM, bet­ter prod­ucts. I know these arti­cles exist on the web­site but there needs to be a lot more depth for Google cov­er­age please. I’m fine with the Trump & Musk cov­er­age. But The Verge needs to stick to its roots of tech gad­gets and services.

There’s already a reduced cov­er­age of video reviews. Ignor­ing Google and their shift in inno­va­tion and Demiss Has­s­abis becom­ing the sec­ond most pow­er­ful in the busi­ness and them stream­lin­ing their prod­ucts over­time and Gem­i­ni becom­ing use­ful in prod­ucts — is some­thing that needs to be cov­ered more please.

Thanks David & Nilay!!

The peo­ple who are giv­ing them mon­ey also watched ‘Her’ and believe it will even­tu­al­ly hap­pen so they will con­tin­ue to pour more mon­ey into it.

1:54:21 The word you’re look­ing for is “Unde­clared Emergency”

3:32 Whaaat is up with Nilay’s water. Is that crys­tal light? Do you need a water softener?

Ope­nAI is about a result not a prod­uct. They are in line with this admin­is­tra­tion which is try­ing to under­mine every aspect of Amer­i­can democ­ra­cy: law, social trust, edu­ca­tion, com­mon sense, rule of law, etc. 

Steal­ing is nev­er unin­ten­tion­al at this scale but they (Ope­nAI) are bet­ting that if they can pro­voke law suits they have enough resources (and allies) to reshape var­i­ous aspects of law to their liking. 

The end­less mon­ey for these tools and (most) of these com­pa­nies are means to var­i­ous unde­mo­c­ra­t­ic ends which are slight­ly more sophis­ti­cat­ed than what we’re see­ing with the end­less exec­u­tive orders: destroy­ing the admin­is­tra­tive state and rule of law so they can oper­ate as they wish with no oversight.

They mas­quer­ade as if they are giv­ing us every­thing we want, using our desires as a dis­trac­tion from what they real­ly want: pow­er with impunity.

watch­es are soooo last century

I love this pod­cast, but is it only me that finds it grat­ing when Ghi­b­li is pro­nounced Gibli?

It would be fun­ny if the EU just bought Tik­Tok. Why should­n’t euro­peans own a social network

Your atti­tudes toward AI slop is frus­trat­ing and I hope you shift per­spec­tives on the val­ue of human creativity

I tried cre­at­ing an ani­me ver­sion of a fam­i­ly Hal­loween pho­to that includ­ed me in a Cap­tain Amer­i­ca cos­tume. It was just a pho­to of me in a store-bought cos­tume, not an image of the actu­al char­ac­ter. How­ev­er, Ope­nAI wouldn’t gen­er­ate it. I’m try­ing to under­stand why—wouldn’t this fall under fair use since it’s a per­son­al pho­to in a costume?

PST⛅5PM 29th Mar 2025

the orig­i­nal COOLPIX was not cheap. my E990 was $999 new lol

in a lot of ways, the mar­ket for the G7x is the same as the X100 — peo­ple want a small cam­era they can keep on them at all times and get bet­ter image qual­i­ty than their phone. There is a huge dif­fer­ence between the G7x and most oth­er point and shoots, which is it has a larg­er sen­sor and an f/1.8 aper­ture on the wide end. That’s the same for­mu­la as the X100, just exe­cut­ed a bit dif­fer­ent­ly (1″ vs APS‑C, prime vs zoom, etc). The only oth­er options in that mar­ket are the Sony stuff, but as men­tioned, Sony’s nam­ing con­ven­tions are con­fus­ing. The RX-100s miss the equa­tion on the lat­er mod­els (the zoom range gets longer but the lens­es are slow­er), and the ZV‑1 lacks a flash, a viewfind­er, a mechan­i­cal shut­ter, and a bunch of con­trols. There is one oth­er entry that meets all these cri­te­ria and it’s the Pana­son­ic LX-100 fam­i­ly. I think we can expect to see those jump in price soon if they haven’t already.

Thank you for lis­ten­ing and adding more timestamps!