Can’t he see all that porn traffic?
The porn sites are usually blocklisted by AI companies because they don’t want their LLMs and image gens to generate porn.

ASMR make it only return the wholesome pages.

Yeah, that is how you make sure that you stay a quasi monopoly and can keep taking that massive middle man cut.

I take the gold. I like shiny gold and dollar bills would look stupid in my hoard.

No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.

Valve is one of the less evil ones. But GOG didn’t need to be forced by court to have a no-questions-asked 30 days return policy.

Gamers can buy wherever they want. But game devs either sell on steam or they basically don’t sell at all.
It’s not a full monopoly. He just has a quasi monopoly. And there are rumors that devs who sell cheaper on other platforms risk not being shown to buyers on Steam…
With great power comes great opportunity for abusing that power to take more middle man tax.

“Art of the Deal” always has been just Mafia methods. He always says “do as I wish or else.” China said no (and the trade war is still ongoing). Venezuela said no and Trump captured the president to make sure, the next one says yes. Iran said no and knows that saying yes would literally not change anything as long as Israel isn’t agreeing too.

Also: Trump isn’t even the first one, doing gunboat politics. That literally is what the US does since end of WW 2.

It might not be as impossible as it sounds. Some of the “open” models are rumored to be able to code. The real problem is that you likely need something with 128 GiB VRAM to run them with a reasonably large context window.

It is pretty rude to leave out the co-author. He knows best how much work the cat did.