"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."

I've seen this quote without attribution a couple of times. Whoever said it, they're spot on.

@JulietEMcKenna you know what's 10x worse? All the marginally-useful #AI we've seen so far - it only has some generally lackluster end results so far - might just be a massive scam to harvest free training labour from everyone who patiently corrects all the mistakes AI makes.

Once the AI actually crosses the dotted line from lackluster to awesome, it is *then* the doors to the public can be slammed down (to all free and easy usage) and the truly lucrative use cases, as in the OP, will be held private. Everyone will be played for suckers, who provided that free AI-training labour.

@d1 @JulietEMcKenna The problem is getting it across that line. Correcting the mistakes provides a *fraction* of useful data compared to what it's already eaten. And there is no more ingestible data.