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WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that a lot of the backdrop for the AI arms race is a competition to see who can succeed in paywalling the internet as a whole.
Machine learning is more in the nature of a side business. The primary goal of scraping the entire internet is to then strangle the original sites by denying them traffic, so that the data the corporations have stored away in their centers is all that’s left, and anyone who wants to access it will have to pay them.
It’s essentially rent-seeking on the largest and thus most brazenly evil, scale the world has seen yet.
And made just that much more evil by the fact that it’s all based on content that they’ve stolen from us in the first place.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
Middle ages:
Peasants share common land and tools — it’s not so much that they collectively “own” it, but that “ownership” is not a concept that applies, because the land is an obligation and not a product.
Then come the enclosure acts, which take all of the land that the commoners have spent their lives contributing to, and give it to the wealthy.
And then come some of the bloodiest revolts in history. And coinciding with this, you have the Luddites objecting to the wealthy replacing their common workspaces with factories that maim and kill people.
The Luddites attack the factories, and destroy the machines. And the British eventually defeat them, using an occupying army larger than the initial wave they send to fight Napoleon.
Digital age:
Peasants share common online spaces — it’s not so much that they “own” them, but that they share a mutual obligation to each other to maintain these spaces.
Then come the tech oligarchs with their AI, and…