Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter

(nbcnews.com)

47 points by donohoe2 hours ago

2 comments

thakoppno48 minutes ago
So much of the Internet is pay-walled now.It’s sad. It never occurred to me we’d get here.
- jjmarr23 minutes ago
 It costs money to pay journalists.You get that money through advertising or subscription revenue.Advertising revenue is gone because everyone has adblock. You couldn't adblock TV or a physical newspaper.Subscription revenue is gone because newspapers don't monopolize their localities. Anyone that isn't the New York Times is struggling.> It never occurred to me we’d get here.My parents were journalists. This has been an issue since before I could read.The business model is broken. Now there's significant negative externalities to society as we become more polarized and news becomes more surface-level due to the lack of $$$.
 - nozzlegear4 minutes ago
 > Subscription revenue is gone because newspapers don't monopolize their localities.What do you mean by this? Do you mean newspapers don't utilize their localities as much as they could, or that they're unable to create monopolies on local information nowadays?Just genuinely curious, I have a brother in law who's the editor at his small town newspaper, so I'm tangentially interested in this kind of thing.
- pogue29 minutes ago
 This is getting totally out of hand. Nobody can pay a subscription for every single news site.If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites.I've tried a dozen different paywall bypass services including bpc & archive.today and I can't get it to bypass this. I think the Google Rich Text trick might work but I'm on mobile atm.
 - jimjimjim6 minutes ago
 Every newspaper had a price. People were happy with this.
- nojito34 minutes ago
 Why is it sad for people to be compensated for their work?
 - sowbug22 minutes ago
 That's not what OP said.Sites displayed ads. Then they decided, or found, that ads didn't bring in enough revenue, so they added paywalls.Paywalls are annoying, they don't scale, and they break the promise of an open web. All that is sad.
 - lotsofpulp14 minutes ago
 The web is still open, anyone can post anything they want and anyone can see it (in the US, at least).An open web, to me, does not imply access to all websites.
 - jimjimjim5 minutes ago
 People still have to be paid. or they won't be paid and you just get different flavors of slop.
MelonUsk1 hour ago
Too many fake naked Elon Musks nowadays, Tim Cook was just protecting Elon's innocence ;-)