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> These Web sites want chatbots to give credit to their contributors; they want to see prominent links; they don’t want the flywheel that powers knowledge production in their communities to be starved of inbound energy.

But this is ultimately impossible right? That’s the one thing I really hate about what is happening right now with ChatGPT.

I can’t tell you how many people are worried about their future because of AI because I don’t know the exact number, but I know I am worried about it because it can already do so much, and I fail to see a scenario in which attribution alone is going to make things better.

Writing and digital art more than code, but not even code is safe. It is merely safe by the extent that OpenAI is willing to drip feed its future releases.

Those people are worried about the wrong thing.

The bad outcome isn't that we put weavers out of a job, but that we're stuck weaving our clothes by hand forever. Same thing for art and coding.

The bad outcome is that people can't get clothes at all. The worry about losing jobs is a legitimate worry that these companies will generate a limitless supply of art and code but they will use price fixing to ensure that all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute.

I'd actually be fine weaving clothes by hand a few hours a month if it meant I had no other work to do. But at the moment there are still people who don't own enough if any clothes and work far more than I do. And the question is if the people building AI can be trusted to liberate those people from slavery.

> all the money that previously went to a lot of workers instead goes to a small number of people who own these companies, and the workers will be destitute

All the money the rich make by selling their robot products to who? Each other? Certainly not to the destitute workers, those don't have money.

I agree that there is a risk that a minority will hoard the new resources for themselves, only it's not this simple.

Technofeudalism. A handful of people or a small class having unseen control over the rest of humans

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