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Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute (nitter.poast.org)

submitted 6 months ago by fnix@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all.

It is truly the ultimate technofix.

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago

This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they're hooked you can do whatever you want because they can't leave.

Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 27 points 6 months ago

it's more insidious: it's not giving it away. it's subverting the "hmm UBI is good actually" argument and saying that people should receive compute instead of money, with a quiet "oh and naturally someone will have to pay us for providing them that compute"

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago

not that I'd bet against them pulling a lock-in move down the line as well (or upsells or any number of other exploitation plays), mind you

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