The less competition there is in a market, the less incentive companies have to reduce their profit margins to gain market share. Antitrust legislation is typically used to ban cartels, but with so few market participants, the need to collaborate in fixing prices is lessened.

Less competition would mean higher prices.

Defining non-AI art as having a ‘human premium’ assumes that AI art is in any way the same thing. Slop might be cheaper than art, but it’s not the same thing.

Silicon Valley investors are doing everything they can to keep the AI bubble from bursting.

One of the freedoms of free software is that people can study it and use it however they want, for whatever purpose they want.

Given that Anthropic and OpenAI derive their profits from their models being closed source rather than open source, I don’t think they should be assisted in devouring freely-accessible data in their endeavor.

Not all developers may see it this way, but those contributing code to LLMs are training them for free at the expense of career opportunities for fellow developers, all the while Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies rake in money for maintaining access to content that isn’t theirs.

It’s not free; doing so provides Anthropic with free access to training data for its models.

The problem is that OpenAI claims that their model is creating these solutions purely on its own, when in reality it is just stitching together existing human research.

The U.S. doesn’t need more hybrids, it needs electric cars that cut out oil dependency and a corresponding increase in renewable energy production.

That’s exactly what an FBI agent would say! /s

The technology should still be improved as much as possible.

Yet another reason to leave Discord.

More than 900 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza this year despite the ceasefire, according to latest figures from the territory’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

The BBC framing the statistics as coming from a ‘Hamas-run’ entity without also mentioning that the UN considers the data to be reliable deliberately undermines genocide claims.

Any outlet that calls AI ‘super intelligence’ will join the fellow propagandists on my blocklist.

Alternative to CBS.

I have the second dash key on my keyboard remapped to the em dash; AI can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Apple intentionally limits what features iOS and ‘iPadOS’ have versus macOS to sell as many devices as possible. An alternate reality where Apple were consumer-friendly would converge all three operating systems into one, with a limited feature set on smaller screens that expands into the full feature set if connected to an external monitor with a docking adapter.

Better to link the original Medium article than this AI slop regurgitation of it.

Edit: Upon review, even the Medium article seems to be AI-written.

U.S. authorities have accused executives of Oxygen Forensics, a company that sold software to the Pentagon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of concealing that the company was controlled by Russian citizens and that its software was developed in Russia.

The crime they should be charged for is selling software to both American and Russian terrorists.

Far and away, most people still lose money gambling. News outlets shouldn’t encourage it by reporting on the statistically insignificant winners.

Steve Jobs was also an asshole, just an influential one.