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Were in a capitalist system and these are for-profit companies, right? What do you think their goal is. It isn't to help you. It's to increase profits. That will probably lead to massive amounts of jobs replaced with AI and we will get nothing for giving them the data to train on. It's purely parasitic. You should not advocate for it.
If it's open and not-for-profit, it can maybe do good, but there's no way this will.
Why can’t they increase profits, by you know, making the product better.
Do they have to make things shitter to save money and drive away people thus having to make it more shitter.
If they make it better that may increase profits temporarily, as they draw customers away from competitors. Once you don't have any competitors then the only way to increase profits is to either decrease expenses or increase revenue. Increasing revenue is limited if you're already sucking everything you can.
And is it wrong to stop at a certain amount of profit.
Why they always want more. I ain’t that greedy.
To us? No, it isn't wrong. To them? Absolutely. You don't becoming a billionaire by thinking you can have enough. You don't dominate a market while thinking you don't need more.
Meta and Google have done more for open source ai than anyone else, I think a lot of antis don't really understand how computer science works so you imagine it's like them collecting up physical iron and taking it into a secret room never to be seen again.
The actual tools and math is what's important, research on best methods is complex and slow but so far all these developments are being written up in papers which anyone can use to learn from - if people on the left weren't so performative and lazy we could have our own ai too
I studied computer science in university. I know how computer science works.