alt Hacker News> it is a very, very good thing for basically everyone other than the people who paid to build the original models
It's not a good thing if you think there's more discovery and progress to be made, rather than cannibalising a fully mature field with cheaper alternatives. Drowning R&D early is not good for everyone.
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svachalek • yesterday at 2:22 PM
What does further progress get us? Mass unemployment? Extinction? Pick your dark future science fiction?
The happy ending where we're all living in a garden of eden cared for by benevolent AI is hardly worth considering when you look at the cast of characters who are in charge of the world right now.
pseudony • yesterday at 5:42 PM
I don’t think many outside the US are actively hoping to be governed by Sam, Dario and Elon.
Is leveraging an enormous capital advantage to strip-mine the Internet and sell it back to us cannibalism or not? Confused on this point. I think they are exploiting a loophole in copyright law (and kind of redefining the meaning of "derivative work" in my opinion, but hey I'm not a lawyer) that collectively we tolerate because the end result is so useful