The farmers market is cool because farmers can skip the middleman and sell directly to you, saving a lot of money… which is why everything somehow costs five times more than it does at a normal grocery store.
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.
I have heard people claim that the reaction people are having against AI is the same reaction people had when the internet started to be introduced. And as someone who was there at the time, I can tell you NO IT FUCKING WASN'T.
America went from a high-trust society to having to actively defend yourself from fraud and theft with EVERY single monetary transaction cars, homes, medical, dental, business, goods, and services
Ex-Blockbuster employee here. And I mean it with 100% sincerity that the world would be a better place if we shut down all streaming services, re-opened Blockbusters and video stores worldwide, and shoved people back out into the world to find and enjoy their entertainment.
Question for the elected officials in the city of Nashville.
Are we cleaning up these branches from the storm anytime soon or just gonna leave them?
Asking for a friend.
@SebMcKinnon So your music just got publicly broadcast and will likely generate a lot of performance royalties. You're publicly complaining about getting paid for your creative work?
Hey @Google why won't your admin for Workspace open so I can change my subscription? I've been unable to login and update it for almost a year and it won't even let me log a support request without logging in.
Isn't it interesting?
$200 billion spent on cancer research every single year, and the only thing we have to show for it is a 90% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990's.
I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn't trigger a golden age.
If Tom Brady is going to do ads for Pizza Hut they should have to show Tom Brady eating Pizza Hut. All of it. The Meat Lover’s Melt, the Cheese Sticks, the mini cinnamon rolls, every single dipping sauce. All. Of. It.