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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by rectang on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:55AM (#43424316)
AI is worthless without training data. If all content becomes AI generated because AI outcompetes original content then there will be no data left to train on.

When Google first came out in 1998, it was amazing, spooky how good it was. Then people figured out how to game pagerank and Google's accuracy cratered.

AI is now in a similar bubble period. Throwing out all of copyright law just for the benefit of a few oligarchs would be utter foolishness. Given who is in power right now I'm sure that prospect will find a few friends, but I think the odds of it actually happening before the bubble bursts are pretty small.

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by olleromam91 on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:02PM (#43431427)
Are we not past past critical mass though? The velocity at which these things can out compete human labor is astonishing, any future human creations or original content will already have lost the battle the moment it goes online and gets cloned by AI.
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