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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • You may be in the younger side, or just not remember, but this happens almost every 20 years like clockwork.

    In the 80’s it was the PC and computers at large.

    In the 00’s it was robotic automation that was going to be the end of manual labor.

    Now it’s this.

    The sooner people realize that all of things are just about the small number of wealthy people who control resources making more money at the expense of the majority of all other humans, maybe something will get done. It’s been tried before in various movements with little to show for it, but maybe I’m just cynical.

    There will need to be a major shift in how economic flow works in order to support an existing or expanding population regardless.


  • I think you’re missing the bigger picture here. Late-stage Capitalism. The inherent problems are only being made worse by the assclown GOP who are working for the monopolistic interests and allow/enable it to be as bad as it possibley can be.

    We have the highest number of monopolistic entities to ever have existed at the same time right now, and with ZERO pushback from the government until this past week.

    Lina Khan at the FTC has been working on actions to force these companies to break themselves up, but that work will be undone by the incoming group of idiots who are only out to help their buddies at the top of these companies.

    None of this will end well, but as long as they get theirs, they do not care what you have. They’ll round you up and put your homeless ass into a camp, apparently. At least that’s what they’ve threatened.


  • The companies that are illegally training on copyrighted data that can keep moving forward with an obfuscated dataset will hang in there. The ones who can’t-or get sued into oblivion-will eventually just get acquired or give up. If “centralized” means anything in this arena, it’s the generalized training data, yes.

    Think of it like this: all companies want these “AI” platforms for is to make their own data more easily parsed and accessible, right? The ones that have engineering resources may be paying for OpenAI now, but once the tooling in the FOSS side is a bit more complete, don’t you think these customers of OpenAI would rather just host their own and run off their own trained data? That’s where things are already shifting.

    This all follows a pattern that has happened time and time again. Last decade it was all the stupid “smart” assistant craze (those are all dead, btw), and now it’s this stupid thing. Nothing new to see here.






  • Two different questions.

    They are a gateway to federated material as any other (like Lemmy), and those controls are at the platform. They can gatekeep federated content very simply.

    There is nothing stopping them from leaving it all open aside from costs though. Hosting is very expensive, and I’m not sure how they plan to support their platform aside from advertising, at which point you may be stuck in a spot where you shut down certain intersections to appease advertisers.



  • There is a huge gap in there that you don’t see though, and Salesforce profits greatly from it. Small and medium-sized businesses who hate using Salesforce, but premade alternatives aren’t customizable for what they need. Throw some customization at it, and you get exactly what you want.

    This is essentially how SF became big to begin with. It sucked so bad, people hired engineers to build their extensions on top of it because it had the option. A capable FOSS solution opens the door to people being dedicated hosts for it, as well as offering pluggable solutions.

    I understand the converse on its success, just see an opportunity to do better with it.