HuisOpDeGaard πŸ‡ΎπŸ‡ͺ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦May 27
DB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the AI business model.

And here's how they're pitching their slop to us.

Sam Altman: β€œWe see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."

#AI #SamAltman #AIslop #TechBrosAreInsane

May 26 at 4:12pmWeb
Show threadpromℒ️May 26
@dbattistella When business turned things into a utility, it was rarely a good thing. Friendly utilities were always owned by the public.
Show threadbent0_b0x πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆMay 26
@dbattistella May they rot in hell. Preferably before they die.
Show threadPetra van CronenburgMay 26
@dbattistella If only this guy had bought half a meter of intelligence only. Real human intelligence, not slop.
Show threadLynn McAlister UE  May 26
@dbattistella Public libraries in particular are offensive to predatory capitalists.
Show threadMayleenMay 27
@lmgenealogy
Particularly the ai business lives of abusing those public resources for their benefit. This is just not ok and one of the reasons i refuse using llm thievery.
@dbattistella
Show threadbrainwashed by lentilsMay 26
@dbattistella
bad copies, even.
Show threadElwoodthe2ndMay 26
@dbattistella reading this, the soundtrack from idiocracy starts playing in my head and I wish George Carlin would still be alive....
#AI #SamAltman #AIslop #TechBrosAreInsane
Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@elwoodthe2nd Me too!
Show threadAnnieBuddyMay 26

@dbattistella

These people clearly don't have the capacity to think things through.

When they are done killing people by restricting their access to information that saves lives, they are expecting the survivors to pay them for that information. Given that AI has already taken all the jobs, who exactly has the money to pay?

I really resent the people who promoted these people to their current status. They are the biggest scam out there. They are rich because they got lucky not intelligence

Show threadMarjorieRMay 26

@AnnieBuddy @dbattistella "They are rich because they got lucky not intelligence".

While there is a degeee of luck to whether they were the one to be chosen they have mostly got rich because they are unscrupulous sociopaths.

Show threadAnnieBuddyMay 26

@marjolica @dbattistella

Oh right, such an important and key factor.

Sorry, but I was limited in characters. Ha ha.

Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@marjolica @AnnieBuddy Most of them are rich because their parents were rich and underwrote their schemes.
Show threadMayleenMay 27
@marjolica
This. These are intelligent ppl that know what they have, what it can and actually cant do. And yet they sell it as the salvation. This goes so much beyond mere marketing 😑
@AnnieBuddy @dbattistella
Show threadMayleenMay 27
@AnnieBuddy
And consider idiocracy: asking questions requires intelligence. If we start normalizing ai over thinking & learning in schools that may be a real concern sooner than we hope for .
@dbattistella
Show threadBaharMay 26
@dbattistella How did it burn the libraries down?
Show threadAdamMay 26

@bsh @dbattistella

A.I. slop makes it harder for authors and original content creators to stay profitable by depriving them of web traffic, and it floods the zone with slop that makes it harder for authors of original works to stand out. We lose the equivalent of many libraries when original authors are forced to quit and stop writing.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/25/google-is-cannibalizing-the-web-to-feed-ai/5244641

Anthropic also purposely destroyed millions of books after scanning them to train it's A.I.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models

Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden

theregister
Show threadBaharMay 26

@adamsaidsomething @dbattistella it would be better if search engines develop some functionality to distinguish between the #AI generated content and human creation. Or a license would be developed for it, so it would be clear a content is creation of humans or not.

Regarding the #Anthropic and the scanning the books, I think they could use nondestructive cameras like google and archives did. However unfortunately even the libraries also throwing away millions of books as well.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/Books/2018/0207/Why-university-libraries-are-tossing-millions-of-books

Why university libraries are tossing millions of books

Struggling to keep up with the increasing digitization of academia, libraries are purging older volumes to make way for study spaces and coffee shops. The act is a radical shift from when the value of a library was measured by the scope of its books.

The Christian Science Monitor
Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@bsh @adamsaidsomething We're living through both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 😭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9n98SXNGl8
Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 movie adaptation.

YouTube
Show threadBaharMay 27
@dbattistella @adamsaidsomething paper books is a physical form of transferring knowledge. It can be done by e-books as well.
Show threadWulfyβ€”Speaker to the machinesMay 26

@adamsaidsomething @bsh @dbattistella

I destroyed about 600 books death cleaning my oldies place.
Sad though it is, book destruction happens all the time.

Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@adamsaidsomething @bsh Yes, and eventually AI will begin to cannibalize itself producing more and more hallucinated data, fooling us into trusting outputs that are structurally unsound and unreliable.
Show threadBaharMay 27
@dbattistella @adamsaidsomething what do you mean by AI cannibalizing itself?
What is the difference between misinformation random people would give you and misinformation AI give you? Do you get fool by both of them or do you search about their sources before believing it?
Show threadDec [{()}]May 27

@dbattistella @adamsaidsomething
_bsh_social.tchncs.de
"Joined May 2026"

*plonk*

Show threadmjc0961May 26
@dbattistella Absolutely never, Sam
Show threadSkim Shady (331.36 ppm)May 26
@dbattistella like the β€œlibrarians” in the book Service Model
Show threadZdenΔ›k DoleΕΎalMay 26
@dbattistella moc hezkΓ‘ pΕ™edstava .. jenΕΎe tahle AI skončí ve chvΓ­li kdy nebude mΓ­t co krΓ‘st.(kopΓ­rovat)
Show threadSnake Oil SalesmanMay 26
@dbattistella these guys truly suck
Show threadWestern InfidelsMay 26

@dbattistella The services that we describe as "utilities" are the ones that are, for geographical or technological reasons, considered "natural monopolies."

The infrastructure of a public water system is phenomenally important, useful, and *expensive*. It wouldn't make sense to build several competing systems. Imagine how long it would take to fix things if your city's streets contained 3x as many pipes as they already do. A water system is a natural monopoly.

LLMs aren't like that at all. There *already are* many competing systems, and distributing those services to users is not a difficulty. They're already running distributed, locally. Their utility to anyone is still an open question.

Who is he trying to persuade with this POV?

Show threadWestern InfidelsMay 26
@dbattistella "We see a future where Tamagotchi is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."
Show threadRobert BΓΆttnerMay 26
@dbattistella sure the whole thing will never be profitable. Now they are trying it with building up fear of a dependency they would like to get and never will. Their output is just a washed out replica of the original that no one needs.
Show threadNiniMay 26
@dbattistella Standard techbro rentier stuff, take over the commons, put up a toll and pay for access to it.
Show threadWanda May 26
@dbattistella Is it not already a utility? Your intelligence is worth nothing if it doesn't bring you money, grow your net worth, etc. Does he live in the same reality as us or is he too self absorbed to notice?
Show threadaptitudeMay 26
@dbattistella #permaculture as a root mean, getting closer and closer...
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingMay 26

@dbattistella

At least they're not lying about "intelligence too cheap to meter" any longer because their only hope of making money on their garbage machines is to charge by the word, practically.

Mind you, the talk is still profoundly insulting, considering that the techbros have refused to treat the Internet like a utility.


#generative-AI #technology
Show threadshoninMay 26
@dbattistella I see someone was intelligent enough to bring him water.
Show threadfedithomMay 26
@dbattistella
Why isn't this motherfucker booed off the damn stage and pelted with rotten food!?
Show threadSome Kind Of GarfMay 26
@dbattistella I Don't understand why it needs rephrasing, Alt"man""s pitch already makes me want to crawl out of my skin
Show threadDuckbilled Plattypus.May 26

@dbattistella Substitute "Magic Eight Ball" every time Altman utters "AI" or "intelligence" and that about explains it all.

Meanwhile, my intelligence is for free on @beige.party. No metering.

Show threadBoloMKXXVIIIMay 26
@dbattistella
Every time I see a video of Sam Altman, I want to do one of three things:
1. Punch him in the face
2. Throw up
3. Look for laws that would get him arrested for fraud on a scale never seen before
Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@BoloMKXXVIII I think there are now millions of people who feel as you do
Show threadGaznjaxMay 26

@dbattistella

They will eventually be charging us for the air we breath.

We are not consumers, we are prey.

Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@Gaznjax 🎯
Show threadVaneshiMay 26

@dbattistella I bet I can generate more money than OpenAI...

First I strap him up to a lamp post.

Then I charge Β£1 to hit him with a hammer.

Every time you connect a speaker plays a happy noise.

Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@Vaneshi Do you accept e-transfers? πŸ˜‚
Show threadlemgandiMay 26

@dbattistella

It is Good to be the King.

Show threadgaryMay 26
@dbattistella or the other way around, american big tech ai gets special treatment just like american ev industry gets protection - same thing, as a result their valuations are skewed - it is faulty accounting but to be fair chinese models are subsidized too and there is the sending your data to china issue plus agi sovereignty problems perhaps. I think there will be a shakeout and general consensus, eventually we will sell models to chinese citizens and vs vs more of a free for all economic ai free trade zones?
Show threadAndi HMay 26
@dbattistella
At the same time as ceasing to print any new books ...
Show threadgplr_May 26
@dbattistella That sounds truly awful. The idea that knowledge is controlled by the wealthy and has to be bought sounds like β€œpay-to-win” for those who can afford that. We all know how great and fair that model is. Those who have money buy knowledge and become even richer as a result. Those who can’t afford it fall behind. This divides society even further into the rich and the poor. Who wins the most? Those who sit on the knowledge and sell it. People like Altman.
Show threadTacoMay 26
@dbattistella imagine if someone photocopied made an idiot read every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies asking them information about the books and having to do with knowledge of what it remembers.

That's the true AI business model.
Show threadTacoMay 26
Don't forget the fact that the exact same idiot can be told to withheld information from you based on who pays it's cut from the subscriptions. Literally what has happened with Sarvam made by India.

https://alokbishoyi.com/blogposts/sarvam-political-evaluation.html
What I Learned Testing Sarvam's AI on 64 Controversial Questions

Show threadBob Blaskiewicz πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡¬πŸ‡±May 26
@dbattistella I envision a world where he eats farts.
Show threadSterlingMay 26
@rjblaskiewicz @dbattistella
"I approve this message"
Show threadMedea Vanamonde πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈMay 26

@dbattistella @shansterable

He’s a traitor to his species.

Show threadJUSTJeffMay 26

Ask him what science this idea is based on?

It’s not. It’s them trying to make as much money off of you as they can by selling you shit you already have rights to.

The fact he can say that in public and no one says anything is depressing. We’re all idiots.

Show threadHot Dog Water, roilingMay 26

@dbattistella

Clearly that friendless bimbo doofus robot flake Sam Altman never had a line for intelligence piped to his house by the county.

Show threadbayoMay 26
@dbattistella AKA a small number of companies training on humanity's collective intellectual output, then charging for access to the pattern recognition that output enabled, while the people who created that output receive nothing and increasingly compete against it.
Show threadDB πŸŒ±πŸ’¦May 27
@bayo Criminal, and none of this is sustainable
Show threadBubacarr SoweMay 26
@dbattistella he is talking shit just like his slops
Show threadretselMay 26