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A friend is currently writing an AI trading bot. 
(one of zillions of such people trying to do this I am sure) 

Didn't you know headphones only exist in 2023 as a fashion statement for you to wear? 
  
I see tonnes of youtubers/tiktokkers using their phone as an interview mic, to be synced with later on. 

A friend is currently writing an AI trading bot. 
(one of zillions of such people trying to do this I am sure) 

I'd say that's because vloggers don't want to vlog while wearing headphones, but.....

yeah to be fair firefly wont let you use the name of anyone in the public eye as far as i know... 
i love all this new ai stuff tho, several good twitter account to follow for updates if any of u guys are into that
generative fill in photoshop is gonna be awesome... but imagine when we have tools like this in AE, or premiere...!
in a few years ai will completely change the vfx industry

AI video just keeps on getting better and better:
 
The video to video feature is especially interesting, I could imagine a very rough video being made cheaply, then being heavily stylized to create a much more polished output for use in an advert.  
A longer look at AI tools for video: 
 

Thinking about this a little further, this won't change much at all.
The problem with CGI people is that they're fake..........  but so are a vast number of influencers so no change there.
The other problem with AI-generated scripts is that AI tends to "hallucinate" and be factually incorrect as well as potentially getting into the realms of bigotry..........  but so are a vast number of influencers so no change there either.
TBH this is true of lots of traditional media too.  Keeping Up With the Real-Life Leave-It-To-Beavers of Beverly Hills Who Wants A Wife was actually more typical of TV rather than an exception.  
It was blogging and then vlogging that actually started the trend of being authentic - TV and film never did it.

AI video just keeps on getting better and better:
 
The video to video feature is especially interesting, I could imagine a very rough video being made cheaply, then being heavily stylized to create a much more polished output for use in an advert.  
A longer look at AI tools for video: 
 

Am afraid the standard Zoom F2 is useless for using with TC, you need the Zoom F2-BT version. (plus the TCS Ultrasync Blue, and 2x TCS USO for each Blackmagic Pocket 6K. Oh, and TCS Ltd has been bought out by Atomos now)
If you haven't yet got the Zooms, I'd recommend you get instead the Tentacle Track E instead, it is a better/easier setup. 
If you can wait, you might want to get the Deity PR-2 pocket recorder instead.
https://deitymic.com/products/pr-2/ 
https://www.newsshooter.com/2023/04/18/deity-releases-the-pr-2-pocket-recorder-with-32-bit-float/ 
https://www.gothamsound.com/product/pr-2-pocket-recorder 

Am afraid the standard Zoom F2 is useless for using with TC, you need the Zoom F2-BT version. (plus the TCS Ultrasync Blue, and 2x TCS USO for each Blackmagic Pocket 6K. Oh, and TCS Ltd has been bought out by Atomos now)
If you haven't yet got the Zooms, I'd recommend you get instead the Tentacle Track E instead, it is a better/easier setup. 
If you can wait, you might want to get the Deity PR-2 pocket recorder instead.
https://deitymic.com/products/pr-2/ 
https://www.newsshooter.com/2023/04/18/deity-releases-the-pr-2-pocket-recorder-with-32-bit-float/ 
https://www.gothamsound.com/product/pr-2-pocket-recorder 

AI video just keeps on getting better and better:
 
The video to video feature is especially interesting, I could imagine a very rough video being made cheaply, then being heavily stylized to create a much more polished output for use in an advert.  
A longer look at AI tools for video: 
 

You've clearly never run a site or a business!
If you've never run a site then you'll have no idea how much effort goes into running it and maintaining it in the background.
Sites require constant maintenance as they are constantly under siege from spammers, hackers, new user requests etc.  Even if you disable comments and logins and all the Web 2.0 functionality you still need to update the software regularly or hackers will pWn your site and turn it into an ad for viagra or to support Putin.
That's the site, but to keep paying for it you need to have an active bank account and need to keep putting money in it.  That bank account was probably under a business name, and to keep that active you need to keep the business name active, which means filing tax returns and dealing with whatever other accounting and government tasks are required.
Did your business have anything else associated with it?  Offices, parking, permits?  You'll need to manage those things too.
The list is truly endless.  There's a good reason that social media sites like Medium or Wordpress or Facebook or YouTube are so popular - because maintaining your own platform is literally a full-time job.

I don't understand why they can't leave the website live and just stop updating it. Web hosting can be very cheap. They can leave affiliate links and ads to pay for the hosting. I have used the site many times when considering lenses and probably have clicked an affiliate price link, I expect the same applies to a big percentage of photographers and videographers.

Or so complicated that it's only Gerald that will tell you that when you're in a certain codec and connect a HDMI monitor then the eye-detect AF doesn't work any more.  That's a real example from the S5, and it was mentioned by others too, but I've seen heaps of gotchas like this that matter to people and no reviewers ever dug far enough to find them.

The only good news is that cameras are so good these days and social media has reduced most forms of produced media to warranting barely more than a passing glance so no matter what camera you buy your biggest competitor will be the cell phone vs the camera you did not buy.

Well, here is something I got tagged in yesterday that I worked on (as the Sound Mixer of course):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CquYJX2vwrm/ 
Can't seem to see any trailer for 女儿来了 (My Daughter Is Coming) anywhere online though? 
Here is a little review of it: 
https://hongi.co.nz/news_article/asian-new-zealand-film-makers-represented-in-nationwide-festival/ 
(and the whole thing can be viewed online, but costs $$: https://ondemand.showmeshorts.co.nz/film/nu-er-lai-liao-my-daughter-is-coming/ ) 
Was shot by Darryl Wong on an ARRI AMIRA:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRxtDvMs61C/ 

Very different placements, no proper review, poor quality field being compared against, plus who knows what audio post processing might have been subtly done in the background. (got to always be a little suspicious of manufacturer comparisons, vs independent ones)

I have had a used one in and out of my shopping basket several times but backed out each time.
I’m really just waiting to see what Panasonic do with the S1 line replacement because ideally I’d stay within the L Mount ecosystem but not 100% committed to doing so.

Forgot their name, they haven't launched any products yet which you can buy right now today. But they've been around at the tradeshows though, showing what they've got in development coming soon. 

It just feels like nitpicking to me (and meh, you can find plenty of people complaining about Sony AF too! People can nitpick anything). And as people in the youtube comments point out he's mistaken with some of his points, he was just using it wrong. Heck, the YouTuber himself admits workarounds exist! But he just doesn't like them. A rather weak objection, just doing it for the clickbait and the views? As he himself says, the AF is very powerful, and he likes it and uses it all the time. 
Feels like 90% of his objection is with the UI, rather than the AF. That's certainly one of the easiest firmware fixes. (welllll... if the objections are genuine, sometimes UI "flaws" are more to do with personal preferences than objective flaws)
And Panasonic is better than most with firmware updates. Thus the key takeaway is: Panasonic's best AF is already very good, and is only going to get even better. 

It just feels like nitpicking to me (and meh, you can find plenty of people complaining about Sony AF too! People can nitpick anything). And as people in the youtube comments point out he's mistaken with some of his points, he was just using it wrong. Heck, the YouTuber himself admits workarounds exist! But he just doesn't like them. A rather weak objection, just doing it for the clickbait and the views? As he himself says, the AF is very powerful, and he likes it and uses it all the time. 
Feels like 90% of his objection is with the UI, rather than the AF. That's certainly one of the easiest firmware fixes. (welllll... if the objections are genuine, sometimes UI "flaws" are more to do with personal preferences than objective flaws)
And Panasonic is better than most with firmware updates. Thus the key takeaway is: Panasonic's best AF is already very good, and is only going to get even better. 

Rarely does it make sense to record beyond 24bit 48KHz 
(in my line of work you can for all practical purposes read "rarely" as "never")

Except in recent years they've been brought out and gone downhill. 
("As many will know, Rycote Microphone Windshields — previously a small family-run but world-renowned business on the outskirts of Stroud in the UK Cotswolds — was sold to the Vitec Group Plc back in 2018. The management team stayed on for a few years before leaving in 2021.")
If you dig into it, is kinda crazy just how many of the brands we know and use in the film industry are all owned by Vitec Group (now called Videndum)
Rycote is still a good brand, just don't expect that past history will necessarily predict accurately future performance now. 
2018 was an interesting year, also the same time  Chris Woolf joined Røde:
https://audioxpress.com/news/rycote-lyre-inventor-chris-woolf-joins-rode-microphones-to-work-on-the-development-of-new-shockmounts-and-windshields 
Many of the former people of Rycote have gone off and formed their own new company. 

That's a bit of an old trope. Sony color science has made tons of progress and now with chunky 10-bit codecs you can get really nice IQ. As for overheating, not a problem on FX series which have active cooling.
AF is definitely ahead of Fuji/Panny.

If there is enough light indoor to play sport, there is more than enough light for an FX30 to get decent images.