Is it worth making an OnlyFans account as a creator? Apparently, not really. Thomas Hollands reveals that, even though the ‘average’ monthly income is $250, the distribution of income on the site is extremely unequal; most of OnlyFans’ revenue is held by the top 10% of accounts. Coupled with a steep 20% cut from the site, a majority of the site’s creators don’t get a cent out of their efforts because they didn’t have fans to begin with.
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Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
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August 15, 2022
