Capitalism doesn't work that way.

So, we've moved on from Denial to Anger? I was wondering when that would happen.

I use ChatGPT almost daily. I use it to write short scripts that have very well defined behaviours. Sure, it makes mistakes, and I have to check its code, but it saves me a heap of time looking up obscure functions. And it comments its code quite nicely. Sometimes, the comments are a bit inane, but I've seen so much uncommented code in my life, seeing any comments at all is a breath of fresh air.

I think that the mistake people make is that they assume that if ChatGPT can write a good 10 line function, then it can write a good 1000 line suite of functions. It cannot.

Its a tool, and it does very well when it is used in the context in which it performs. The wrong tool will do poorly at any task.

I would estimate that ChatGPT saves me about 5-6 hours a week. Time that I can spend on my higher skills rather than my grunt code-monkey skills.

Perhaps if it had adequate funding... ?

We completely dumped M$ Office in favour of LibreOffice a couple of years ago. The transition was relatively painless... certainly easier than upgrading to the next iteration of Office.

As October approaches, I'm starting to feel that maybe this is the time to switch the bulk of our gear to Linux. In the past, the hesitancy to upgrade to the next M$OS was mostly about defects and transition costs, but this year, there is an insidious feeling of anxiety that to continue with Microsoft will be a mistake. We have a few skills with Linux, and are using it for some rudimentary systems (eg soft routers, phone systems, etc).

Perhaps the time has come to bite the bullet and put it on the desktop.

I'm too old for this sh!t.

If your business model relies on traffic sent to you by an advertising company, your income stream is pretty fragile.

The bigger concern is the consolidation of human knowledge into a capitalist organisation (eg Alphabet).

When websites collapse due to loss of revenue from ad traffic, the training resources for AI will evaporate too.

The tension between the two is palpable. I expect that the balance point between the two will be completely unfit to service either.

AI simulates an intelligent response to any question. Much like most of humanity.

What's the problem?

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How about this, then: It fills a niche, but it is full of bad decisions (and fragmentation), and survives mainly by its existing momentum. It's crap in the same sense that Unix is crap: the founder effect has made its flaws impossible to dislodge or rethink.

A popular solution to a problem is not necessarily a good solution to that problem.

There's nothing much to doubt. The evidence is always the same: "our web server logs show scrapers originating from IP addresses owned by someone who didn't pay us."

The Verge article is a little clearer. 100,000 threads pilfered over the past year with scraping! Oh no!

(See also: the actual legal filing. I have to admit the headings sound a little unstable.)

Just you wait—they're way more over-represented they are in subreddit moderators... and in the accelerationist movement.

"Actually" read them? Are there a lot of people running around purporting to have read TSR novels, or to have credentials that require doing so?

I don't think that its won yet. The problem needs to become sufficiently serious/painful before society will get serious about a solution. This is why the world is so slow to tackle climate change.

UBIs are being tested in several of the more liberal democracies around the world, and some are showing some successes. Not the silver bullet to overthrow capitalism yet, but social revolution takes time.

I have three kids, all post grads in various technology fields. None of them have jobs in their field of qualification, but all three are excelling in their careers (though, for one of them, I'm not sure if crypto-trading can be called a career even if it is exceptionally lucrative).

There is still time, and positive outcomes are not out of reach yet. Have a little faith in the next generation.