"Technofeudalism" sounds more and more prescient, GenAI like what we are seeing adds more fuel to the argument that we are working, for free, for the tech behem

"Technofeudalism" sounds more and more prescient, GenAI like what we are seeing adds more fuel to the argument that we are working, for free, for the tech behemoths vacuuming data. It's strange to think a book just released last year already needs an update, where Yanis Varoufakis only considered us working for free in these technofeuds by providing behavioural data (what do we click, what do we buy, etc.) the GenAI bullshit now has upped it a notch to include all creative work done as free work for tech companies. It's sad to think that only cases like Figma, where they step on the toes of other giants with deep pockets, might actually bring some change to regulations on companies profiting from the work of others without compensation. I believe there could be a whole lot more useful things in AI to be done for the amount of resources being spent on training GenAI. It's a neat tool being completely misguided to create neat party tricks... I've been using LLMs a lot to guide me into studying topics I know very little about and Google searches lead me into spam-filled garbage, I love to use them for this task, and hope to see many improvements on this direction. There's so much more useful stuff to explore instead of spitting transformed copies of the ingested training data. Shit like this [0] boils my blood, the absolute hubris. [0] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p0rcl-wo-qM https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p0rcl-wo-qM