Comment by eric-burel
3 months ago
I am thinking of building an association of AI consumers so we can organize to praise or boycott whatever we collectevily find acceptable or not. I'll spend some time reading this in details later on, but whatever it states or imply, positive or negative, it's not for businesses to set the rules as if they owned the place. Consumer associations are powerful and can't be fired when striking, since the customer is always right.
>I am thinking of building an association of AI consumers
The Gooner Association?
> it's not for businesses to set the rules as if they owned the place.
This is for studios and companies that are producing content for Netflix.
If you want to sell to Netflix, you have to play by Netflix's rules.
Netflix has all kinds of rules and guidelines, including which camera bodies and lenses are allowed [1].
[1] https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
If you want to sell anything as an SME almost anywhere in the world, you have to play by Google's obscure SEO rules. It doesn't make it right. I feel the same vibe with this kind of rules. Are thise guidelines negotiated with unions or federation that includes the content producers, actors, authors? If yes, is decision power equally balanced? Who writes the rules?
> it's not for businesses to set the rules as if they owned the place.
... Of course it is. As the distributor, Netflix obviously has a fairly broad ability to control what it distributes.
When you take the highway you are expected to respect a few rules but the highway builder is not supposed to tell you how to dress in your car. Theses platforms are the closest that can be to public spaces and they are managed as totally autonomous blackbox, I don't like that.