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by therobots927 81 days ago
There is both the opportunity for and an incentive towards these companies actively deceiving users, both by hiding the true amount of subsidies behind AI output and by shuffling users between high and low quality models in order to minimize said subsidies. It’s difficult for me to understand why most engineers here don’t seem to get this.

If you’re not listening to Ed Zitron you’d better start if you don’t want to get whiplash in the coming months.