Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
This girl said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” And now I can’t unsee it 🥺❤️…
aquele momento em que a chave vira e vc entende que a vida acontece na conversa com a vizinha, no caminho do mercado, em brincar com um pet na rua, no ouvir a história de alguém, tudo isso é a vida acontecendo…o tempo todo
the ability to create something out of thin air whether it’s drawing, painting, making music, sculpting or any of the arts.. is literally magic and u can’t tell me it’s not.
You could get in your car with $500 in your pocket and drive to the other side of the country and start your life over. You could rent an apartment with just your name and some money. You could get a job just by walking in a place. It was an entirely different world.