Dan GillmorMay 10, 2023

"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

The Guardian
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@dangillmor I take comfort in knowing with absolute certainty that any “artificial intelligence” they create with the scraped data will be cringy garbage that nobody is interested in. And they’ll move on to the next shiny thing as soon as their herd decides what the next shiny thing is.
May 10, 2023 at 5:57pmWeb