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.
McDonald’s says customers are “pulling back.”
Same with Wendy’s.
Same with Burger King.
When fast food loses traffic, it’s a stress signal.
People are tapped out.
I found myself watching this 90s video again and I really miss this decade.
The 90s were the last era where everyone occupied the exact same reality.
There were no custom algorithms curating a personal feed. We stood in line for the exact same movie tickets, and we jammed the same cartridges into our consoles when we got back.
When a massive cultural moment dropped, nobody missed it. You either participated, or you had absolutely nothing to talk about the next day.
Having limited options is what actually forced us to pay attention. You actually had to pop the tape in and commit to what you were watching.
We traded a connected culture for an infinite scroll.
There will never be another decade like this.
@JJLahey The Bears had some challenges last season, but were definitely heading in the right direction - not to mention a softer division. I feel they have taken a step back this off-season, some things being out of their control.
That being said, next season's biggest problem:
A 91 year old grandmother was given a welfare check after being unresponsive to her family. When police showed up, she was in her room breaking her personal record on a video game😭
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