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They don't collect data?
by sekai 1y ago
They don't collect data?
- wmf 1y agoIf you use it, that means you received more value than you gave up. It's called consumer surplus.
- patmcc 1y agoThat's effectively every business that isn't a complete rent-seeking monopoly. It's not a very good measure. edit: to be clear, it's not a bad thing - we should want companies that create consumer surplus. But that's the default state of companies in a healthy market.
- jaccola 1y agoIf I pay £200,000 for a car, I received more value than I gave up, otherwise I wouldn't have given the owner £200,000 for her car. No reasonable person would say the car was "free"...
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> If you use it, that means you received more value than you gave up. It's called consumer surplus This is true for literally any transaction. Actually, it's true for any rational action. If you're being tortured, and you decide it's not worth it to keep your secrets hidden any longer, you get more than you give up when you stop being tortured.
- klabb3 1y agoIt’s only true in theory and over a single transaction, not necessarily over time. The hack that VCs have exploited for decades now is subsidizing products and acquiring competition to eventually enshittify. In this case, when OpenAI dials up the inevitable enshittification, they’ll have gotten a ton of data from their users to use for their proprietary closed AI.
- buuuutwut 1y ago“Use of prison facilities is explicit admission of guilt.” It’s called prisoners dilemma when even the government is propping this up.
- bentt 1y agoThat's where the real money is.