Filing Statement;

"The long-term trend has been that new technologies tend to exacerbate precariousness. Large, profitable industries typically turn away new entrants until they incorporate emerging technologies into their existing workflows."

This article is a very interesting way to look at the generative AI revolution of 2022. As with previous IT revolutions such as social media, it will be the profit interests of the business that are likely to prevail in how that this technology shapes our future.

Bladerunner dystopia confirmed, understood.

I can't imagine how much cost they're racking up, I mean, they're already monetizing GPT-3, so I guess it's pretty clear what they're going to do next. This is the "gain publicity and users" phase. Making money will come soon enough

They earn a lot of money from user and company subscriptions to access ChatGPT and their other services. It's free right now, but it won't be for long.

this is also why they are trying to remove Stable Diffusion, to incorporate it into the next Adobe release or something

I really appreciate and admire what Stable Diffusion did. A few weeks after Dall-E and Midjourney made the rounds with their paid private service, they simply went out and released their work openly, open source and free to play at home. They threw a whole new "industry" that was just beginning to capitalize, under the bus. The fucking rich who invest in Dall-E must have been furious.

So now only the rich will benefit from AI, the poor will eat shit as usual.

And with AI replacing the poor, very soon the rich won't need the poor at all.

but I would pay for chatgpt;

I can afford GPT3 right now: 50,000 tokens (about 37,500 words, input and output counted) for $1. GPT3 is almost as good in many ways as GPT chat.

$50 will get you 2.5 million tokens or about 2 million words. An average page contains 500 words. So let's say your average query is half a page, 250 words. So those $50 = 10K individual inquiries.

So basically you can buy it at that price right now (in the form of CPT3), except you don't pay monthly, you pay per token, so you could spread out those 10K queries over many months if you wanted.

I suspect that chatGPT would have similar prices.

What I really can't wait to see and use is GPT4.

The genie is out of the bottle. It's all open source, so unless they start banning personal computer ownership and co-op working, there's going to be weird AI for the masses for the foreseeable future.

The analogy with social networks is incorrect, because social networks require everyone to be on the same network. The best analogy is the app store. There will be big players and little players, but getting locked out will only happen in the most extreme cases, and those guys will continue to thrive in their own corners.