Daniel at UponArriving ✈

Attorney turned travel content creator
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[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

My unforgettable experience #traveling on board the @EtihadAirways 1st Class Apartment. https://t.co/inlCUPUFqK

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

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.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

A mistake people often make is assuming that highlighting the downsides of AI means you’re anti-tech.

I am hugely pro-tech, but I think generative AI, on the path it’s currently on, will be net negative.

I think many feel the same.

Opposing AI boosterism ≠ being anti-tech.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@dflieb Resisting AI's encroachment into kids' creativity and motor skills is an extremely valid concern. It's good your kids are still drawing. But I don't think there's a conspiracy or something re: the pushback. They are legit concerns & big tech often shows little regard for them.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@morgoth_raven @ABAOProductions The photography analogy is problematic for me b/c AI is more like commissioning a photographer to capture something for you. There's taste involved but nothing like the creativity/skill required to execute in the moment.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

"the time spent making it mean absolutely nothing."

Except that is what gives creative work all the meaning and purpose in the world.

[OscarAI @Artedeingenio]

@xshadowpanther The only thing that should matter, the only standard that should be applied, is the final result. The tools used or the time spent making it mean absolutely nothing.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

Art devoid of human struggle simply isn't interesting to me.

[Robin Poe 🐑 @RobinPoedev]

we will soon enter a generation of "artists" who cant answer the questions "how did you get that idea?" "what inspired you to make this?" because the answer will be "i asked Grok to generate 4 epic fire demons and i thought no2 looked cool so i copied it"

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@billywoodward Can someone please explain the gatekeeping argument to me because it always just sounds like gatekeeping = enjoying the products of your work ethic, talent, and skills. What am I missing?

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@VorosTwins Videos, photos. Let users opt out of them as well.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@DissentFu @ProudSocialist Exactly.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@exillvs @marmaduke091 Do you think having a feed inundated by fake travel photos (not disclosed as AI) is the stuff of dreams? Genuinely curious.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

Big Tech can’t wait for a world where thinking atrophies and even our nurturing instincts are outsourced. A world where society depends on them to function in almost every way imaginable. That’s the product-market fit they’re chasing.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

Google continues to HIDE data from publishers — so we can’t see just how badly they are screwing us over with AI Overviews & AI Mode

Google Search Console breaks down data for forums, images, videos — basically every feature EXCEPT the 2 Google is using to “re-imagine” search

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@realSergeLuke @CreeCoder @ChuckYouSuck I just can't get on board with the idea that "AI is just doing what humans do." Even if they are conceptually similar on the micro-level, the output and impact is worlds apart.

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@realSergeLuke @CreeCoder @ChuckYouSuck A trillion dollar company scraping the entire internet w/out consent to maximize shareholder rev and using that data to put the humans who created it out of work is the same as a student learning the basics of a given topic?

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

You wouldn’t believe it by these comments but it’s possible to adapt and stand up to big tech’s exploitations at the same time.

[Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah @homemadehooplah]

Oh, look, it's the anniversary of when the career I spent a decade building began to die because a single company decided that the entirety of the world's creative effort was theirs to take & exploit, forever ruining the internet & all concept of verifiable proof

Ghouls

FUVM

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

Please someone tell me how this is good or even sustainable for the web long-term?

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

1. Be Google
2. Scrape this recipe blog
3. AI sloppify it
5. Skip “Step 4”
6. Pass it off as a “family recipe”
7. Don’t link to source
8. Force websites to provide content for your AI
9. Repeat for whole Internet
10. Profit off others’ labor 📈🤑

https://t.co/IOdOL7iIW9

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

Can't wait to create my first photo album of me visiting places I've never been. Even if I were single and thirsty on dating apps, this would make me feel so sad to spend time doing.

[Jane Altoids @staticbluebat]

I think the point of looking at photos like these is it reminds you of things you’ve done in your life, why would you want a picture of yourself eating a fake meal or looking at fake art. Don’t you want to live a life

[Daniel at UponArriving ✈ @uponarriving]

@Bruce_Wu_tc @neilturkewitz Thr intent, scale, and output of human inspiration and AI exploitation are vastly different such that I don’t think the comparison holds.

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

This! Stop with the fake analogies. AI is not like the camera. It’s not like recorded music. It’s not like the printing press. AI is rooted in exploitation. It could not exist in the absence of existing works. It is wholly derivative.