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Well yeah. If it’s free, you’re the product. Socialize the research and the risk, privatize the profit and future.
by flandish 4y ago
Well yeah. If it’s free, you’re the product.
Socialize the research and the risk, privatize the profit and future.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago> If it’s free, you’re the product. Be careful when using this phrase around here, it's a sure-fire way to get grayed out to obscurity. There seems to be a subset of HNers who take offense every time they encounter it, because it's a "platitude". That doesn't make it any less true, though :)
- flandish 4y agoI don’t disagree - the usual cohort here is people looking for that extra “capitalist help” with the whole “bootstraps” marketing angle popular these days. And you’re right: doesn’t make it less true. I suppose in the gpt space it may be “if it’s free, you’re the QC phase.”
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoHow is Microsoft giving openai 10 billion dollars "socializing the research"?
- flandish 4y agoThat’s not what I spoke of. I stated “if it’s free.” Don’t mix up direction and order of operations here. MS “giving” is an investment. GPT being free to use (us) is also a form of investment. Look at healthcare. Govs (taxpayers) funded research into vaccines that then … get returned to profit to corporations. Not to lowering of taxes.