Comment by baranul
3 days ago
People should be aware that whatever they are doing with AI, the company they are paying subscription fees to and who owns the AI will usually know too. Your secrets are now theirs too, to sell to others.
After the Singularity (possibly): build good products, get reverse engineered and copycats offered, nobody wants to buy what they can get for free or have AI make for them, rather ask AI those support questions, forced into different kind of business.
Your secrets are now theirs too, to sell to others.
As long as I benefit too, I'm pretty much OK with that.
There's a good argument that as long as these things are trained by swallowing up everyone's IP, as has been true from the beginning, the output should also be freely available to everyone. Don't want to pay to serve it to everyone? Fine, release the weights as well.
> As long as I benefit too, I'm pretty much OK with that.
There's a good argument that as long as these things are trained by swallowing up everyone's IP, the output being freely available to everyone, creates a kind of balance.
> Don't want to pay to serve it to everyone? Fine, release the weights as well.
On this argument for AI, I agree. If AI has arguably become an IP theft machine that converts its content into open-source freeware, then AI itself should become open-source freeware too. No more subscriptions, no more hiding weights, and no more hiding training data. Make AI truly beneficial for everyone, with very clear legal constraints that it and companies must follow.