Asherlee10 posted...
One of the very few good things to come out of capitalism is competition-driven product improvements.
What? Sure, that's what it is in the textbooks, but I don't really feel competition has created products or improved them. The internet was created and developed through public funding of one stripe or another.
And the internet has been enshittified because of market competition causing a race to the bottom.
Asherlee10 posted...
We are seeing that with AI right now.
Is (specifically generative) AI really improving through competition? Learning on even bigger stolen datasets after admitting they were using stolen data and... nothing happening to them... for the purpose of not being laughed at in the marketplace over humans with 13 fingers doesn't, on its face, appear to be improvement through competition.
Maybe that's nit-picking. I'd love better examples that convince me otherwise.
As an aside, I'm perfectly fine with analytical AI used for research purposes. I can see the utility in that product, but it's unfortunately not the one people mean these days when they talk about AI. My beef is almost entirely with generative AI.