[marktolson]

Bitcoin / Blockchain doesn't have any intrinsic value other than to those who believe in it. Self driving cars (Level 4-5) are not available to the public and is still in development. This stuff is real, produces some incredible results, available to the public and advancing at a rapid rate.

[cdata]

The output of these models seems really impressive, but for my money the notion that it has value is undermined by the way its trainers keep "proprietary" data that is likely to be in violation of image usage rights at a large scale. What is the true value of something that can only be had at the other end of misbegotten extraction/exploitation? It seems like a similar trade-off to the one that web3 proponents are asking us to make. The apparent end-game is that we'll kill off all the true value creators - the working artists responsible for the source data - and all we'll be left with is an artifact of their works.

[nprateem]

No, real artists will just become artisans, like any producers of hand made goods