The way they got so big wasn't that they were super efficient they just went around buying up their competitors and they happened to have some venture capital because bezos had some connections through his parents.
If we had proper antitrust law enforcement someone would have noticed ages ago that Amazon was going around buying up competitors and shut that down but well, we don't.
So now we've got a handful of retailers and they are all basically owned by the same handful of major shareholders so they
Humans have been exploiting and oppressing each other since before recorded history. And this has been true in very capitalist economies as well as very communist ones. It's basically a universal truth. Furthermore, it was way, way worse in the past.
What changed? Has humanity become more moral in the past few thousand years. I find that very, very unlikely and not well supported by evidence. But tech level has changed tremendously in the
If I buy a book, the authors also can't opt out of me using it as a doorstop or doing other things with it they didn't intend me to do. I would be more worried if authors could deny me certain uses after I bought a book.
Sure, but I guess they want money because the AI has to READ the book before giving answers.
They'd sue us all if they could prove that we lend the book to every single family member and even (gasp) strangers! Some even donate them or put them on shelves in cafés after having read them
If we had proper antitrust law enforcement someone would have noticed ages ago that Amazon was going around buying up competitors and shut that down but well, we don't.
So now we've got a handful of retailers and they are all basically owned by the same handful of major shareholders so they
The third option is.....labor automation!
Walk with me on this....
Humans have been exploiting and oppressing each other since before recorded history. And this has been true in very capitalist economies as well as very communist ones. It's basically a universal truth. Furthermore, it was way, way worse in the past.
What changed? Has humanity become more moral in the past few thousand years. I find that very, very unlikely and not well supported by evidence. But tech level has changed tremendously in the
If I buy a book, the authors also can't opt out of me using it as a doorstop or doing other things with it they didn't intend me to do. I would be more worried if authors could deny me certain uses after I bought a book.
Sure, but I guess they want money because the AI has to READ the book before giving answers.
They'd sue us all if they could prove that we lend the book to every single family member and even (gasp) strangers!
Some even donate them or put them on shelves in cafés after having read them
because the AI has to READ the book
You're going to have to decide if AI has agency, or is just a tool used by a person. You can't have it both ways.