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> AI companies profiting Are they?
by gilfoy 11mo ago
> AI companies profiting
Are they?
- johneth 11mo agoIf you boil it down to the AI companies are making money (subscriptions, etc.) based on content they did not pay to produce, then they are profiting from someone else's hard work.
- BigTTYGothGF 11mo agoRevenue is not profit.
- smarf 11mo ago'stealing is fine if you lose money when reselling'
- BigTTYGothGF 11mo agoI don't believe I wrote anything of the sort.
- johneth 11mo agoI didn't say it was. I understand that profit = revenue - cost. I said they're profiting from other people's hard work, a separate concept.
- sdoering 11mo agoprofiting != profit
- dzhiurgis 11mo agoDo you use google search for work? Then you are profiting from someone else's hard work!
- raw_anon_1111 11mo agoThe difference is that when you search on Google - at least before AI overviews - you end up at the source site. Also Google respects robots.txt. Every site that Google surfaces chose to be in the index.
- dzhiurgis 11mo agoThats not entirely true. Google might or might not hide your pages from index. They'll definitely going to scrape it anyway. They also display summarized info from your page (famous "what is scrapping" joke showing wikipedias summary). Finally, you might just get your answer without visiting - just by skimming result description.
- baxtr 11mo agoIf you boil it down anyone on this planet can access ChatGPT (and other for profit LLMs) for free to answer any question they might have. Knowledge is shared among humanity at a rapid speed. Everyone benefits. It’s mind boggling how anyone could be opposed to that.
- Teever 11mo agoPeople at these companies are receiving a salary to do these things that the person you're responding to is opposed to. While not all the companies in question may or may not be profiting from these things some of them are, and most if not all of their employees certainly are as well.
- wartywhoa23 10mo agoWell, don't we have enough Acme Corporations in the world that were unprofitable and existed purely on VC life support before they killed off all the competition by dumping the prices, and then made them skyrocket to recoup investments and become profitable after becoming monopolists?