[nicbou]

The problem for me is that I'm competing with the AI results that Google trained on my work. I'm losing the majority of my traffic to it, so at some point I'll have to give up because the work no longer supports me and no longer has an audience.

[djeastm]

Same here. Knowledge is being commodified.

[georgemcbay]

> Knowledge is being commodified.

Already was well before AI, the difference now is that a few big AI providers risk becoming the ultimate rent-seekers that will increasingly capture all of the value of that commodified knowledge whether the original knowledge generators want that or not. There is no opt out, everything will be vacuumed up into the machine mind.

This will almost certainly lead to vastly increased amounts of wealth inequality (on top of the already unsustainable levels we have today) and possibly a very messy societal disintegration (this is theoretically avoidable, but I am not convinced it is practically avoidable given our current socioeconomic/political realities).

Bright future ahead!

[Terr_]

Industrial-scale plagiarism. A form of copyright-laundering only available to big actors.

[red-iron-pine]

OG feudalism involved owning knights and horses and armor and grain production; techno-feudalism involves owning all ideas

[nicbou]

They don't own ideas, but they own the land we build on and the means of production.