Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

Post by paulryanrogers » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 2:37 AM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #123

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> Just because you can cook with a hammer doesn't make it its purpose. If you survey all the people who own a hammer and ask what they use it for, cooking is not going to make the list of top 10 activities. If you look around at what LLMs are being used for, the largest spaces where they have been successfully deployed are astroturfing, scamming, and helping people break from reality by sycophantically echoing their…

I do mean this is a pretty piss poor example. Email, by number of emails attempted to send is owned by spammers 10 to 100 fold over legitimate emails. You typically don't see this because of a massive effort by any number of companies to ensure that spam dies before it shows up in your mailbox. To go back one step farther porn was one of the first successful businesses on the internet, that is more than enough motiva…

Post by i_love_retros » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

Post by edoceo » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC

gruez wrote: post #182

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How? They are all losing tens of billions of dollars on this, so far. Open source models are available at highly competitive prices for anyone to use and are closing the gap to 6-8 months from frontier proprietary models. There doesn't appear to be any moat. This criticism seems very valid against advertising and social media, where strong network effects make dominant players ultra-wealthy and act like a tax, but th…

>Open source models are available at highly competitive prices for anyone to use and are closing the gap to 6-8 months from frontier proprietary models. What happens when the AI bubble is over and developers of open models doesn't want to incinerate money anymore? Foundation models aren't like curl or openssl. You can't have maintain it with a few engineer's free time.

Post by edoceo » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

gruez wrote: post #184

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Isn’t the reason we have a public domain so that people aren’t in a perpetual debt to their intellectual forebears?

Copyrights last a very long time. Moreover nothing says it has to be open. The recipe to coke is still secret.

Post by _DeadFred_ » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

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well practiced cynicism is boring. imo there are actually too few answers for what a better path would even look like. hard to move forward when you don't know where you want to go. answers in the negative are insufficient, as are those that offer little more than nostalgia.

But op is frankly absurd. It sounds reasonable for about 1 second before you think about it. What sets tech apart from every other area of human innovation? And why limit it to that? What about mineral exploitation? Oil etc. It's just not a well thought out comment. If we focus on the "better path forward", the entrance to which is only unlocked by the realisation that big techs achievements (and thus, profits) belon…