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As long as it’s free, like the rest of the internet, I kind of want AI to work.
How could we kill commercial AI and keep Free AI?
I don’t think ai will ever be neutral/benevolent. It’s too easy for fascists and the like to try and manipulate matters through it.
I personally would rather see it go away or at the very least take a backseat.
It is too power hungry to be both free and good. You can make it less power hungry by making it worse, or you can keep it good but then it costs a lot. Also, "good" is a stretch.
Reddit has been trying to block crawlers, including the internet archive, so they can sell their data to commercial AI companies.
Except for legal liability, the other solution is good-enough models too cheap to run locally to justify paying hosting. Like prepackaged stand-alone AI on-site servers which are cheaper after electric costs than subscriptions.