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Imagine an electricity generating company saying that they don't allow their electricity to be used to cold start a competitor's generator.
by chii 3mo ago
Imagine an electricity generating company saying that they don't allow their electricity to be used to cold start a competitor's generator.
- brookst 3mo agoDo you think software should be regulated as a utility?
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- bot403 3mo agoSoftware, no. But maybe eventually AI and tokens are a public utility.
- the_other 3mo agoAI probably should be. The bulk of its efficacy comes from the work of “everyone else” (in loose terms). AI also aims/hope/threatens to replace such a large number and range of jobs that it probabky should be a commons.
- darkwater 3mo agoWise words. And probably in a few years more people will think the same, but now most are blinded by the gold rush or the hate for it.
- sakisv 3mo agoDepends on the software. In this case, the companies that make and provide AI models that are increasingly used to interact with me on critical things (banks, public sector services) then yes. Abso-fucking-lutely they should be regulated like crazy. In fact I'm really surprised by the amount of people that are not worried by how many parts of their lives are being handed over to be managed by a probabilistic system that is controlled by a private company with next to zero oversight. There must be a greater liability than "oops, you're right to push back"
- tripzilch 3mo ago> Do you think software should be regulated as a utility? I do think that AI models that were trained using the biggest intellectual property heist in human history should be a utility for all, yes.
- brookst 3mo agoI would 100% support this as long as the same is true for human works. Every artist is trained on thousands of years of art tradition. Copyright wasn’t a thing for the first many millennia of artistic creation, and we still got Bach and Michelangelo.
- cookiengineer 3mo ago> Michelangelo Did you know that Michelangelo was the first "label" for inventions and art? He sourced his material from other people and published it for them. So it's kinda ironic (maybe on purpose?) that you mentioned him.
- chii 3mo ago> as long as the same is true for human works. and it is. Anyone can study Michelangelo or Bach, and learn their style.
- sumedh 3mo agoAI companies say people will buy intelligence like they buy electricity.