I think you're underestimating the difficulty, even for exact copies of text (which AI mostly isn't doing).
What sort of Orwellian anti-cheat system would prevent copy and paste from working? What sort of law would mandate that? There are elaborate systems preventing people from copying video but they still have an analog hole.
Even worse, the open weight models are practically indistinguishable from the closed ones. I just don’t see why you’d pay full price to run Claude when you can pay 10x less to run Kimi. There are already loads of inference providers and client layers.
Without heavy collusion or outright legislative fiat (banning open models) I don’t see how Anthropic/OpenAI justify their (alleged) market caps
It’s free as a loss leader. The trick is to upsell later. Unfortunately for OpenAI there are plenty of competitors with fungible products, so it might be hard to pull a classic monopoly rug-pull.
Their CEO is a loon for one thing.
But also the concept of spying is generally unsavory. Nobody wants to be tracked. Palantir has proven that they have no ethical framework for who they work with. Essentially they fill a mercenary role in modern society. Nobody really trusts mercenaries, for obvious reasons.
Wild take. The government can label you a protester anytime and, apparently by your logic, track everything you do.
It’s a slippery slope, probably ending in some nastiness.
Instead, we could focus our efforts on expanding opportunities, improving social mobility, providing housing, providing education, improving access to social services and community.. you know, stuff we know works from sociological research.
Ok, so they can track me. I don't really give a fuck? It's not the end of the world.
As for all the 'efforts', expanding opportunities and improving social mobility is pretty nebulous, as are 'improving access to social services and community'. Essentially it seems like you've written a screed for the lower class, but I think neither of us qualify as being part of it. So are you talking about the educated middle class and up, or the lower class. If the middle class, social mobility and opportunities are fine; if the lower class, then the sociological research shows that they are almost invariably a lost cause anyway, unless you want to talk about forced sterilisation which would ironically be a great way to help the lower class expand their opportunities, at least in the nearer term, as well as improve society generally. But that'd probably be too offensive, right?
And just as an aside: pretty funny that most of the protestors these days are middle class themselves. Their being middle class is what enables them to protest lol. A bit ironic. Perhaps to that extent they've been provided with TOO MANY opportunities.
There is little difference between any people except opportunity availability.
Wealthier people should advocate for less fortunate peers. It’s the right thing to do.
There are plenty of countries with much better social mobility than the US. We need only adopt what’s been shown to work.
Your rhetoric is concerning. It seems you don’t consider poor people as worthy as yourself of social support, or that poor people are somehow different from you. You are simply relatively lucky. , as am I. The difference seems that I acknowledge luck
Such a sad worldview. Unfortunately thinking like that is self-fulfilling. By building weapons you encourage everyone else to build weapons, and everyone is poorer in the end.
Some silly aspect of human nature I guess. I notice it's worse in men on average.
What's your suggested alternative? This is exactly kind of shallow virtue signalling I was pointing at. While you make dismissive remarks like this, your government or USA does the dirty work required to keep stability.
But I suspect that’ll u-turn hard when the economy implodes
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