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revolution2018 t1_ja4ypw3 wrote

Enshitification is only bad while model training and the hardware that runs it is crazy expensive. What matters is that the big money drives down those costs. It won't take long.

And then the open source community will step in. They will not engage in enshitification. That leaves the big corporations competing against a superior product that is free to use.

So go ahead, enshitify. I love watching big companies die!

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Yippeethemagician t1_ja5nsfl wrote

Shit. An optimist. I mean I want you to be right. But the state of our workd says otherwise. We got farmers hacking their own machines to fix them. How good is it going to be when they throw an ai on there that you need to jailbreak?

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revolution2018 t1_ja69gvm wrote

If I'm being honest the idea of farmers having to outsmart an AI doesn't upset me. Don't get me wrong, corporate interests using regulatory capture to block their customers from repairing equipment is an evil that needs to be defeated. I'm not supporting that.

But I do support the larger societal implications of AI and accelerating technology becoming prevalent in every facet of every person's life. That would make having a mindset of actively seeking to learn and embracing progress a required skill for basic everyday life. Yes, I know that is anathema to some and I think it's going to go really badly for them. I'm fine with that so yeah, optimist on all thing tech related.

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