Brave pairing Ai content. Surprised you have more upvotes than downvotes with this crowd.
I’m happy to see things summarised by LLMs, so thanks for the details.
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
From Google AI:
In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time. Other details about the home’s value and affordability:
The actual property at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, sold for $875,000 in 1989, just prior to the film’s release in 1990.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
summarized
Oh, then surely the Google AI can tell us exactly what it summarized, right?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
If you’re not happy to see it then move along. Why you feel the need to comment on things you don’t like.
I’m happy to see so I’ll stay and engage.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I’m just questioning the use of “summarizing” here.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I did skim a bunch of articles first, all with the same info, but they were too long-winded or paywalled to link to. This summary seemed just right…
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
Yup, this (I feel) is one of the few areas where AI is valuable.
I’ve got a buddy who just got hired on at a large company as a software developer. Apparently their code base is so arcane and in such unusual frameworks that they recently fed all their documentation to an LLM and are using that to help onboard new employees (vs trying to have experts try to train up people personally).
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Must be the time of day, as I’ve disclosed before and been downvoted to oblivion. This place is exhausting at times.
To think I found people more cynical than me, now that’s impressive.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the houses including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Read it again more closely. In 1990 in order for them to afford an $885,000 house, they would have needed an annual household income of $335,000 which is the 2025 equivalent of $665,000.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yeah, I know. I’m saying the new price is unaffordable for the salary required to afford it.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
So it’s unsourced and likely inaccurate.