You’re not just paying for the hardware, you’re paying for a device with certain functionality and compatibility that you expect to not lose as the result of future updates. Just because corpos think it’s ok to abdicate their responsibility to the consumer by separating hardware and software in the legal contract doesn’t mean that they’re not violating the social contract when the device loses functionality as the result of a software change.
How is that relevant? The main issue is corpos like google deliberately making it difficult for people to do things with their open-source software that they don’t want them to, forcing them to rely on their approved downstream version of the software which has built-in “features” that enable them to sell your data (or use your data to sell ad placements) and squeeze more money out of the product.
Human posting of AI-generated content is definitely a problem; but ultimately that’s a moderation problem that can be solved, which is quite different from AI-generated content being put forward by the platform itself. There wasn’t necessarily anything stopping people from doing the same thing pre-GPT, it’s just easier and more prevalent now.
To be fair, it’s entirely reasonable to be able to expect that paying money for something should get you the thing you paid for. It’s just the current dystopia that we live in where corpos can’t be satisfied with anything other than the continuous extraction of money from every possible consumer.
This. I often see people shitting on AI as “fancy autocomplete” or joking about how they get basic things incorrect like this post but completely discount how incredibly fucking capable they are in every domain that actually matters. That’s what we should be worried about… what does it matter that it doesn’t “work the same” if it still accomplishes the vast majority of the same things? The fact that we can get something that even approximates logic and reasoning ability from a deterministic system is terrifying on implications alone.
Yeah if California secedes, fruits, nuts, and vegetables would get a whole lot more expensive for the rest of the country… something like half of our produce comes from California.
Yeah but I get like 5 spam calls a week from “Nicole with loan processing” or “Joshua Martinez from the loan issuance department” and they always leave a voicemail that I have to delete because I tried to get a personal loan 4 months ago.
But didn’t you know that teeth are just luxury bones?
So… everyone who doesn’t risk their lives for a small chance of making a difference is a fascist? Yeah, sure, that checks out. “If you’re not with us then you’re against us” is not and has never been valid logic.
Just because most of the user base is unaffected, that means that it’s okay to defy the expected convention and change something (which does still affect some of the user base) without any justification other than “because we can”?