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They want to capture more of the value that was previously going to others. That's basically what this has all been leading to. Why let a cooking website get visitors and ad revenue when they are free to take the content and show it as their own? Now they are going to do the same to e-commerce. Either they are going to let customers buy their products through Google's interface, or they won't be discovered. No more ownership of the customer relationship. Stores will be a backend warehouse and manufacturer now with Google taking a percentage of all profits.

It is just a theory, the conspiracy part is not really applicable. I don't see what is controversial about it. Are you implying the machine taught itself the mathematics to do all this?

How is that a "tin-foil-hat" take? It's not a secret, and in fact widely reported, that these companies are spending billions on creating training data.

I've been thinking about getting the M5 Max Macbook Pro when it comes out to run local models on, but I'm worried it would make the computer sluggish to work with. Is it better to just get some Strix Halo mini pc to be dedicated local machine?

Is this going to be another app that I have to make sure I opt-out of training for?

Do some freelancing to see what problems people will pay you to solve, then figure out if it is a good problem to solve at scale.

Dropshipping is just logistics. There is a lot of dropshipping that has nothing to do with ordering off Alibaba.

Those upsides are currently just a fantasy and ignore the very real current downsides. They also do not in any way rely on AI to become a reality.

It would be difficult, but not necessarily THAT difficult. With enough pushback from the public, AI would start getting regulated in meaningful ways. The problem is too many people love it, and see no problem with it. Because the momentum and money is on their side, it feels like it is impossible. Maybe things will turn out fine and we will just live in a similar but more depressing future, but if the pro-AI crowd gets bit and changes sides that could be a turning point.

That's true, too. I guess we will see if executive pay and credentials start going down. They could technically have AI make all the decisions while someone just plays the patsy.

I think the reason AI isn't going to replace CEOs, or anyone in the C suite, is pretty obvious. They see themselves as the company. Everyone else is a resource. AI is here to replace resources, just like investing in a brand new lawn mower. For them, replacing an executive with AI is like saying you're going to marry a broom.

Care to provide any examples of what sort of content are in these conversations you had with AI?

I was thinking more like Blackwater, not standard security.

More likely he will have a new contract with some private security firm.

It's interesting seeing all the ChatGPT users in this thread, knowing what we know about OpenAI. Either they don't care about what OpenAI does, don't know their reputation, or feel like their use is too insignificant to matter.

They were trying to keep the facade up until they were allowed to become a public benefit corporation. At least that's the way it seemed to me. Now they are fully mask off.

Funny how quickly they have become like every other tech company. There is basically no hint of OpenAI the non-profit anymore.

Edit: Why did this go from their press release to a news story?

I think the problem is more with using PRIVATE repos. My letters are also private and I would be pretty pissed if the mail carrier was reading them. Why does GitHub think it has the right to do this?

My guess is that we are going to see a new uber expensive video generation tool from them aimed at filmmakers in the next year.

I think we are, in fact, getting dumber.

I thought some of those polling numbers would be higher. Do people really think it serves a purpose for tech companies to hold ALL the wealth? People must have heard a bit about economics in high school and figured there was no need to think critically beyond that.

There are a lot of useful cases for OpenClaw, just like there are use cases for letting my dog drive my car. Still don’t let my dog drive though.

This is great, I've been trying to figure this stuff out recently.

One thing I do wonder is what sort of solutions there are for running your own model, but using it from a different machine. I don't necessarily want to run the model on the machine I'm also working from.

You’re not alone. I was wondering recently why I keep coming back here. The community that made it interesting seems to have moved on as popularity has taken off. Your typical tech worker has also changed as well which is likely part of the reason it doesn’t feel the same.

I see a future where AI is much less useful, either by human behavior or government regulation. We are only at the beginning of whatever this new period is.

I'm ready to start my own counter-culture. Turn on, tune in, drop out.

Wow, our surveillance helped take down their surveillance. Yay, I guess?

I use Claude for a few reasons.

1) I don't want to give OpenAI my money. I don't like how they are spending so much money to shape politics to benefit them. That seems to fly in the face of this being a public benefit. If you have to spend money like that because you're afraid of what the public will do, what does that say?

2) I like how Claude just gives me straight text on one side, examples on the other, and nothing else. ChatGPT and Gemini tend to go overboard with tables, lists, emojis, etc. I can't stand it.

3) A lot of technical online conversation seems to have been hollowed out in recent years. The amount of people making blog posts explaining how to use something new has basically tanked.

I'm honestly surprised how most of HN seems to react to it, though I think a big part of it is people not wanting to feel left behind, wanting to think they could be buddies with Sam Altman.

Another part of it is that these AI companies push a vision of the future that is attractive to people. Curing cancer, releasing people from the need to work, the world at your fingertips. They need the public's permission to keep doing what they are doing until they reach the point that public opinion doesn't matter anymore.

It is honestly scary watching people willingly be led to the slaughter. A lot of people have been too comfortable for too long and don't realize how bad things can get. If the Renaissance was about humanism, we are entering an anti-Renaissance period. My answer is don't cope, do something about it. There are already enough people around trying to cope when we need organized action.

I agree. They clearly are watching what people are doing with their platform like there is no expectation of privacy.