Technology

What intelligence?

They don't have intelligence, they have spicy AutoCorrect

they're pretty up front about it. They want to gatekeep knowledge so they can monetize it and control the labor.

So they stole the data to create these abominations and now they want to sell it back to everyone. Does no one see the fucking hypocrisy?

It's not intelligence

Its the vast, free resource of the internet. Mined, paywalled, repackaged and sold back to you at a premium by rent seeking talentless hacks

The wording also struck a nerve because many AI models were trained on enormous amounts of publicly available internet data such as books, articles, forums and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.

That's much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.

They scraped the internet's knowledge and want to sell it back to those who actually created it.

Hype first, tangible income stream last, and this isn't it.

How did that grifter get the job in the first place.

Putting aside that what they sell is not even inteligence: if they are providing a utility, then let’s regulate them like a utility, e.g. electricity distribution

It's wild how almost everything in the world is comic book evil from like a really poorly written comic.

Companies can already buy intelligence as a utility. It's called contractor work. Buying tokens from Sam Altman is not going to result in the outcomes the companies want. Hire me instead, at least I kind of know what I'm doing.

Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil is a cure for everything.

I was heartened by college graduates booing these assholes.

Why does he keep calling it "intelligence"? It's not intelligent. Even calling it AI is a stretch. It's an LLM.

Also, intelligence already means something else. When phrased like it is in this context, it sounds like he's talking about selling espionage.

But then again, telemetry and adware are essentially espionage. So maybe that is what he means...

Impossible. It doesn’t require any local infrastructure, so there’s no inherent lock-in like you see with utilities.

Utterly delusional CEO.

The dude changes his pricing model everytime he's interviewed. Dude has no idea what he wants to do, so long as it's billable.

Every capitalist is a conman.

Literally the future capitalism has always wanted; all common resources seized from the public for the good of private equity.

Oh its a utility?

... so it should be publically owned and operated?

He didn't even say 'like' or 'akin to' a utility.

He said 'is a utility'.

... So then democracratize it.

And yeah, if WiFi is like that too, then yeah, lets have the public manage that as well.

... I wonder if ChatGPT can draw Altman looking at a broken clock being right twice a day.

I’m not anti-AI, but anti whatever fresh hell they are unloading unto the masses. This is something that requires careful planning to ensure we don’t devastate resources or stall critical think skills and knowledge.

LLMs are not intelligent lol

Please Sam, do the world a favor and step in front of a bus.

Call me paranoid but comments like this really have me worried about forced transhumanism

ever since feudalism fell, dipshits all over the world have had one thing in mind: bring it back. now they're almost there. and the peasants are all too ready to give it back.

Another desperate attempt to monetize. AI bubble-burst, here we come!

Oh okay, now I get why they made it so easy for student to let Ai do their work; they want the generation to rely on them

So basically a world in which the only ideas that exist are approved by AI companies? I know evocations of 1984 have been a cliche for ages but

I'll sell Sam Altman an ounce of dignity, only a small 1 billion dollar fee.

Flimflam Sam says…

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Stop buying up all the chips you worthless piece of shit.

I still have a library card.

Imagine a world with no libraries, no internet search, no wiki.... They turn it all off after gobbling it all up, just to sell it back, because they end up with all information, for sale.

It's VERY aggravating to use.

"No I said DON'T include this information I've told you three times now."

"Did I ask for your speculation/discussion?"

"No, I said CITE ONLINE SOURCES, not just make them up!"

"NONE OF YOUR EXTERNAL LINKS WORK!!"

...half an hour later you realise the first answer is probably the best you're going to get, and you'll still need to fact check it before using it.

I like listening to Ed Zitron stuff, though admittedly part of it is AI Doomer comfort food, but one of the drums he beats is that the spend is absolutely obscene, and they’re going to have to start dramatically dialing up the prices, and soon, to have any chance at all of converting to profitability.

From what I’ve seen, even people who like AI won’t pay for anywhere near as much as they’re using now while it’s free or flat rate.

Altman will say anything to keep the scam alive