A lot of people seem to be very in denial about the fact that OpenAI and co do not give a crap about you. They don't care about the agreements you've signed. You're just a pile of cash to them

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dspillett 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> You're just a pile of cash to them

You are currently a cost to them¹ - using your data as free training/refinement, and potentially selling², it is a way to offset that a little.

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[1] https://isaiprofitable.com/ - some of the green bars are creeping up a bit, but not much unless you count the shovel sellers

[2] sorry, leaking³

[3] Though it could of course be incompetence rather than malice, a mistake they are not actually making anything out of, as per Grey's amendment⁴ to Hanlon's razor.

[4] Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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int3trap 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> A lot of people seem to be very in denial about the fact that OpenAI and co do not give a crap about you

Who thinks OpenAI or any big company for that matter give a crap about them? This isn't a popular sentiment at all, it's just patently false.

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oblio 2 hours ago | parent [-]

All those people with AI friends, boyfriends, girlfriends.

	▲	jerf 42 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, everyone who has an AI boyfriend or girlfriend should make sure that they use only open source models that nobody can take away. Even if a particular cloud service stops hosting them at least you can make other arrangements. And the nice thing is those other arrangements should generally get cheaper over time, and that's nice, when your significant other gets cheaper over time. In the modern world, it's just critically important that you exert full control over your SO. You wouldn't want them to run off and leak your most intimate secrets to others without your knowledge or control. I'm sure a lot of us could tell stories about our SOs that we didn't fully control and how they ended up leaking a lot of critical information about us. So full control is definitely mandatory in any SO relationship. It's really just prudent wait I feel I've gone off the rails here somehow but I can't put my finger on it...
	▲	anotha_one 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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anotha_one 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> You're just a pile of cash to them

I thought I was the lazy, irrational, inferior human filth whose job they were replacing.

	▲	sodapopcan 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You're both, which is why none of this makes sense and is yet somehow "inevitable."

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Mistletoe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s not fair, we are also more free training and refining of their models.