Last Friday of each month, I organized some of the observations and ideas shared on social networks. I call it Friday finds.
“Listen, LLM and generative artistic imaging tools will improve in time. If your opposition is based on shitty outings, this problem will be solved.
Problems such as the consumption of unsustainable resources, unfair work practices, the acceleration of wealth inequalities and the absolute death of a joyful creativity will not be fixed, however. »» –@barsoomcore
The electrical cost of GPT-4 is also quite high. If an American worker out of 10 uses the GPT-4 once a week for a year (therefore, 52 queries in total of 17 million people), the corresponding power requirements of 121,517 MWh would be equal to the electricity consumed by each cleaning in Washington DC (around 671,803 people) for twenty days. It is nothing to make fun, especially since it is a case of unrealistic use for the target audience of GPT-4.
I am deeply concerned about the fact that all this industry is built on the sand. The models of large languages on a chatgpt scale, Claude, Gemini and Llama are not durable and do not seem to have a way to profitability due to the high intensity of the generative AI. Training them requires spending hundreds of millions – if not billions – of dollars, and requires such a quantity of training data that these companies have actually stolen millions of artists and writers and hoped to get away with it.
The carbon tax is good for Canadians. Why approach it?
Sages leadership questions – leadership guided by history, science, economic experience and example. More than ever, Canadians must be recalled. Families in Canada sacrifice themselves by paying a carbon tax, but they are rewarded when they obtain a large part of their expenses – or more – while directly contributing to climate responsibility. This contribution is a result to celebrate.
How the APRICOT Tree Café has become a leader in clean indoor air
The restaurant in the Toronto region has invested in an improvement in ventilation before reopening after household orders. Their business is better than ever, the proof that paying attention to indoor air quality is vital during a continuous pandemic …
Since improving the air quality of coffee, neither him (Franz Hochholddinger) nor Esther have not been sick despite the work often from 14 to 15 hours a day. And at a time when Canada restaurants, a non -profit organization that defends the catering industry, estimates that 62% of the country's restaurants lose money or even break the coffee profits continue to grow. Hochholddinger said they had had their best year of file in 2025 and increased by 20% of income so far this year. Customers as far as New York and Los Angeles came to coffee for its pure air, according to the guest book.
The National Book Foundation medal for a distinguished contribution to American letters – Ursula K. Le Guin (2014)
Currently, we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market product and the practice of an art. Developing written equipment to adapt to sales strategies in order to maximize the profits and advertising revenues of companies is not the same thing as the publishing of responsible books or paternity.
However, I see that commercial services have control of the editorial. I see my own publishers, in an idiotic panic of ignorance and greed, invoicing public libraries for an electronic book 6 or 7 times more than they charge to customers. We have just seen a profiteer try to punish an editor for disobedience and writers threatened by the company's fatwa. And I see many of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this – let the profiteers of goods sell us as a deodorant and tell us what to publish, what to write.
Books are not only products; The reason for profit is often in conflict with the objectives of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems essential – but then, the divine law of kings. Any human power can be resistant and modified by human beings. Resistance and change often start in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
At Learnopoly, Finn has championed a mission to deliver unbiased, in-depth reviews of online courses that empower learners to make well-informed decisions. With over a decade of experience in financial services, he has honed his expertise in strategic partnerships and business development, cultivating both a sharp analytical perspective and a collaborative spirit. A lifelong learner, Finn’s commitment to creating a trusted guide for online education was ignited by a frustrating encounter with biased course reviews.