• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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      18 hours ago

      Anyone paying for Ai are also responsible for this. They are those who rent and create a profitable business. And I’m not just talking about users like Microsoft, but also people like you and me and smaller companies.

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        4 hours ago

        True, but paying a company $20 a month versus paying a company $200 or $2000 or $20000 or $200000 or $2000000 a month are all vastly different numbers.

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          4 hours ago

          As an individual, yes. But the mass makes a big difference. Just because there are terrible companies throwing trash in the ocean does not mean it is okay for you to throw your single trash into it too. And if you do, you are not better than them, you just have less money to throw at it. That’s the kind of message I’m trying to communicate.

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      1 day ago

      Eh, we are currently experiencing what is called “steam engine time”. Tons of people are working on this AI tech at the same time and are sometimes inventing the same tech nearly simultaneously, the same as with steam engines hundreds of years ago. All of the conditions were there: Decades of previous research, new breakthroughs, fast enough hardware and enough capital to fund it all.

      Sam Altman is a crook, but if it wasn’t for him, someone else would have done a similar thing in his place.