If we take a look at how the current AI behemoths got there, there’s a trail that goes straight from stolen data to proprietary models. They are charging their users for the privilege of using better aggregated public data. I hope that, when they raise prices once again and more and more users are cut off their larger models, people would understand where their place is, according to corpos.
Why would any serious company think it’s a great idea to outsource all your intelligence work to a handfull of US companies, making yourself wholely dependant on their goodwill and the goodwill of the US government?
It’s the same delusion and corruption from a neoliberal corporate-whore political class that led to every country growing dependent on US tech companies, and Chinese manufacturing. They represent corporations; not their constituents.
If they’d all committed to open source and domestic companies for support and infra, the compounding effect of tens of thousands of engineers across governments working on linux and other FLOSS products would have made everything significantly cheaper and more efficient for all of them in a matter of years, compared to paying a foreign tech company for everything in perpetuity… and that’s before you consider the multitude of other risks and vulnerabilities to national security.
As a good example look at the national police in france. They ditched windows for a custom linux distro and are now saving like 10 million or more euros a year. That’s money that used to come from taxpayers to a foreign company and now that money can stay local and help improve the taxpayers lives instead of buying someone a 3rd yacht.
I wish all these European Linux projects would pool resources and create one good solution instead of each little country or even city DIYing their own solution.
It’s like people are starting to realize what the “luddites” were saying from the beginning.
This tech is not from the people to the people like the web, it’s from big corpos to fuck you.
You won’t have that tech, you will rent a highly modified one at best, built with the purpose to manipulate you.
Remember: there is a club out there, and you are not part of it.
So much this.
If we take a look at how the current AI behemoths got there, there’s a trail that goes straight from stolen data to proprietary models. They are charging their users for the privilege of using better aggregated public data. I hope that, when they raise prices once again and more and more users are cut off their larger models, people would understand where their place is, according to corpos.
Yeah, that’s what I really don’t get.
Why would any serious company think it’s a great idea to outsource all your intelligence work to a handfull of US companies, making yourself wholely dependant on their goodwill and the goodwill of the US government?
It’s the same delusion and corruption from a neoliberal corporate-whore political class that led to every country growing dependent on US tech companies, and Chinese manufacturing. They represent corporations; not their constituents.
If they’d all committed to open source and domestic companies for support and infra, the compounding effect of tens of thousands of engineers across governments working on linux and other FLOSS products would have made everything significantly cheaper and more efficient for all of them in a matter of years, compared to paying a foreign tech company for everything in perpetuity… and that’s before you consider the multitude of other risks and vulnerabilities to national security.
As a good example look at the national police in france. They ditched windows for a custom linux distro and are now saving like 10 million or more euros a year. That’s money that used to come from taxpayers to a foreign company and now that money can stay local and help improve the taxpayers lives instead of buying someone a 3rd yacht.
I wish all these European Linux projects would pool resources and create one good solution instead of each little country or even city DIYing their own solution.