They want you to believe that analyzing things without permission somehow goes against copyright,
Whats the purpose of generative AI? Its not just to analyze, its to replicate and mass produce. We’re not talking about some software that is churning through medical data to figure out how to feed premature babies. Its that stupid AI web search answer that is just copy pasted from another website that may or may not have to source where it made its summary from. (usually from a hit that is on the first page of the search results that I’m going to click on anyways)
If there was no money in doing it, it wouldn’t have happened the way it did. Whether this money is from investors or from monetizing services doesn’t matter in the short term, only that somebody is willing to pay.
An alluring oversimplification, but your cynical framework can’t account for the communities of people who put in time and effort into FOSS projects. The quality and popularity of open source alternatives has eroded the moats of proprietary services, making it impossible for them to monopolize and profit from this public technology. So if it happened the way it did, it wasn’t for the reasons stated.
Whats the purpose of generative AI? Its not just to analyze, its to replicate and mass produce. We’re not talking about some software that is churning through medical data to figure out how to feed premature babies. Its that stupid AI web search answer that is just copy pasted from another website that may or may not have to source where it made its summary from. (usually from a hit that is on the first page of the search results that I’m going to click on anyways)
I don’t think there is one single purpose. That’s a hard question to answer.
I don’t think it is that hard to answer.
If there was no money in doing it, it wouldn’t have happened the way it did. Whether this money is from investors or from monetizing services doesn’t matter in the short term, only that somebody is willing to pay.
An alluring oversimplification, but your cynical framework can’t account for the communities of people who put in time and effort into FOSS projects. The quality and popularity of open source alternatives has eroded the moats of proprietary services, making it impossible for them to monopolize and profit from this public technology. So if it happened the way it did, it wasn’t for the reasons stated.