It’s almost like unregulated capitalism is a certain highway to oligarchy and authoritarianism.

This isn’t typical price gouging. It’s an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.

Yes, I will concede to that. Supposedly LLMs help a lot in certain scientific research domains replacing tedious manual work.

The thing is, the prevalence of good vs bad scenarios are inversed between GenAI and aviation I would argue. Due to lack of legal regulation we see insane amounts of funding being given for the most greedy nefarious purposes, like the elimination of the working class or artists, privacy violations for the sake of control and literally weapons out of dystopian scifi.

It’s really not the same.

I hate both the AI bubble (not the science behind it) and private jets and billionaires if that makes you feel better.

Also, global aviation serves an extremely useful function. Not sure that compares to fancy code autocomplete and media generation that either invalidates digital evidence in legal courts or looks like an insult to life itself.

Those studies do not refer to item volume, they refer to monetary value.

If a business can earn more by selling 5 cars worth half a million each per year, instead of trying to sell 20 or even 30 Cars under 40k to average people their entire business model will shift to cater to billionaires and multi millionaires.

The bulk of average people are becoming irrelevant to the current capitalist market, that’s the point.

Depressing bit of the day: I don’t have the source with me right now but there was a claim on youtube that the top 1% make up for like half of the consumer market in the USA.

Half of everything sold in dollars is done by the ultra rich. Everyone else is basically irrelevant and driven to extinction under capitalism, if that is accurate.

To be fair, Poe’s Law on the Internet has been at the peak of its power in the recent years due to AI and geopolitical events.

IMO if your “A*” style algorithm is used for chatbot or any kind of user interaction or content generation, it should still be explicitly declared.

That being said, there is some nuance here about A) use of Copyrighted material and B) Non-deterministic behaviour. Neither of which is (usually) a concern in more classical non-DL approaches to AI solutions.

Private platforms have every right to ban you, even if they just don’t like you or your political beliefs. Censorship is mostly happening by the government and systematic media.

And that is why federated platforms are so important. If most people don’t wanna see someone’s bullshit they can ban him. And he has the right to run his own instance.

Note that I’m not defending Tate here. Many of his words and actions are actually harmful or hateful and he deserves to be arrested.

But there’s a line between “illegal/harmful” and “unlikeable” which we need to remember.

Spamming, scams, and many forms of white collar crime are a result of people either getting desperate for a decent living or being greedy and wanting infinitely more than others have.

If you take out these two possibilities guess what gets almost entirely extinct.

That’s basically saying that “big tech” (as we know it today) and competition-friendly capitalism just cannot coexist. Which I’m inclined to agree with.

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