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psychoslave ◴[] No.45062941[source]
What a surprise, a big corp collected large amount of personal data under some promises, and now reveals actually they will exploit it in completely unrelated manner.
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sigmoid10 ◴[] No.45062982[source]
The are valued at $170 Billion. Not quite the same as, but in same order of magnitude as OpenAI - while having only a single digit percent fraction of active users. They probably need to prepare for the eventual user data sellout, as it is becoming increasingly more obvious that none of the big players has a real and persistent tech leadership anymore. But millions and millions of users sharing their deepest thoughts and personal problems is gonna be worth infinitely more than all the average bot bullshit written on social media. That's also why Zuck is so incredibly desperate to get into the game. It's not about owning AI. It's about owning the world's thoughts and attention.
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goalieca ◴[] No.45063262[source]
Companies all seem to turn against their users whenever they have revenue/earnings trouble.
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diggan ◴[] No.45063308[source]
It seems to me like some fundamental/core technologies/services just shouldn't be run by for-profit entities, and if come across one doing that, you need to carefully choose if you want to start being beholden to such entity.

As the years go by, I'm finding myself being able to rely on those less and less, because every time I do, I eventually get disappointed by them working against their user base.

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bigfishrunning ◴[] No.45063348[source]
Except LLMs aren't a fundamental or core technology, they're an amusing party trick with some really enthusiastic marketers. We don't need them.
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chamomeal ◴[] No.45063672[source]
I’d say they’re a fundamental technology by now. Imagine how many people rely on them. And I’ve seen some heavy reliance.
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goalieca ◴[] No.45063889[source]
I’ve also seen heavy reliance on opioids and that didn’t turn out well.
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1. chamomeal ◴[] No.45065660[source]
Agree with you there. And that sorta is the kind of reliance I’m talking about. My friends will ask GPT to read restaurant menus for them lol