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overfeed • last Friday at 8:44 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

> Why offer your weights for download or grant any third party usage access when you can just do the actual job yourself and collect all that turnover?

It's hilarious how a the trillions invested in AI companies, and their valuations are predicated on the AI labs Sherlocking entire industries, and yet CEOs, mathematicians, and everyone else are eagerly feeding the beast their most prized information.


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xinayder • yesterday at 2:39 PM

Let's not forget the time Anthropic and OpenAI stole some mathematician's research because they were vibe researching the problem and Altman and Amodei thought it would be nice to claim the prize as their own

siva7 • last Friday at 9:01 PM

What else should we do? It's not like we had any choice.

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vkou • last Friday at 10:27 PM

> and yet CEOs, mathematicians, and everyone else are eagerly feeding the beast their most prized information.

The alternative is starving because someone else will.

That's why those companies are worth trillions.