Microsoft CEO of AI Your online content is 'freeware' fodder for training models

Re:Microsoft CEO of AI Your online content is 'freeware' fod... by latexr on Saturday June 29, 2024 @07:11AM (#40829445)

> It just means those people got out-competed in the market. That's what the free market is for - to serve the consumers, not the producers.

For one, if you serve only the consumers at the detriment of the producers, soon you’ll have no producers left (or, more likely, a handful of extremely powerful ones which will stay stale as they have no reason to innovate).

For another, you appear to be arguing as if the “free market” is an unambiguous positive, when it very much is not. It doesn’t even adequately serve consumers, it serves businesses. The free market is what makes companies knowingly produce and sell harmful substances, like cigarettes or lead paint.

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Re:Microsoft CEO of AI Your online content is 'freeware' fod... by EnigmaFlare on Sunday June 30, 2024 @10:39PM (#40842114)

If AI stagnates, then some human will out-perform it and be able to sell their work. The AI won't be able to generate competitive work because it's stagnant at a lower level.

I'm not arguing free market is all positive, just pointing out that the whole reason people see free markets as a good thing is because they benefit people (consumers). They have downsides too but those aren't the reason they're popular. Nobody wants free markets so they can get poisoned more easily.

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