Step 1. Steal content from everyone
Step 2. Train your shity AI based on stolen data
Step 3. Tell the world how you are revolutionizing everything
Step 4. Start selling stolen data as Gen AI with Ads
Step 5. Ultimately, you will be another ad company, but this time, you are stealing the work of journalists, book authors, artists, music, video, and small content creators to make money by claiming Gen AI-created content
OpenAI explores advertising in its AI products https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/2/24311248/openai-explores-advertising-in-its-ai-products
This is the greatest theft; they have normalized it now while using maximum energy. These billionaire brats don’t give a crap about our planet or the people whose work they have stolen. They are not afraid of consequences. It is all about money. Who cares if ordinary people can’t get affordable energy or Mother Earth gets heated?
@nixCraft Wait, so the ultimate goal of any business is to be an ad company?
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"...They are not afraid of consequences...."
Well no...why would they be?
@nixCraft I can’t help myself but there’s a similarity with Google. At the beginning they indexed all websites data without owner’s consent to make search more precise and after that they started selling ads.
@kavo3 Yes, that is the business model they have developed. Normal people still face legal action if they are caught downloading movies, music, software, or games. Kids are mainly involved in torrenting that stuff. They get three strikes from their ISP, and their data is handed over to companies. The laws are not applied equally. Microsoft themselves built trillion-dollar corporations using copyright, and now they are funding this Gen AI nonsense.
@nixCraft Internet is dead.
@iamdtms Nah, not even google is powerful enough to destroy the internet. It still belongs to us. You can still go and rent a VPS and build what ever you want…
The internet giants have done a lot of damage and need to be broken up but we have to leave that to our governments (Brazil did a good number on X and the EU is just waking up).
@nixCraft Step 6: stealing article wrote by ai
Step 7: producing more bullshit with step 6
Step8: people are stopping to go to their websites
Step 9: people are creating private forum out of reach of ai
Step 10: the dead of the internet as we know
@nixCraft I posted about this a long time ago. Easy to predict when you know how money works. https://fosstodon.org/@brianowen/111942823975754011
@nixCraft that's not entirely unexpected, but...eh, tech bros be tech bros. Meh.
That is what ultimate neoliberal perversion looks like.
And Elmo wants to prevent this.
Likely because he does not want competition draining potentional ad revenue away from him.
@nixCraft I'd love to see some legal wordsmithing conditioning lawful access to a digital service on non-participation of any entity developing generative AI or acting as an agent thereof, non-disclosure of any text or other media to any such entity, and non-use of generative AI in any interaction with the service. To take it beyond breach of contract and other civil cases, perhaps it could be tied to perjury. And to facilitate prosecution, perhaps it could require consent to disclosure proving violation and waiver of, for example, indemnification contracts.
And then provide a button on the registration (and if necessary, login) form to fill that legalese into a textarea (e.g., "under penalty of perjury, I, …."), submission of which is required for any access to the service.
Fanciful thinking perhaps, but it would be nice to have a slice of the Internet free of human outputs being absorbed into LLMs and the like and free of LLM etc. slop spamming the inputs.
@nixCraft Oof, how sad and true.
@nixCraft As I read somewhere (sorry I don't remember the source), we live in a society in which SciHub is illegal, while OpenAI is an example to follow.
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"Ad-Company" appears to be the Carcinisation of the tech-industry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
AI bubble is bursting. Things that *can't generate revenue* are funded by advertising.
Therefore, despite all the hype, AI can't do anything that would pay for itself.
The word of the year is "enshittification". Never been more accurate / prescient.