[jayd16]

The consequences are different this time because why?

Seems like an even bigger opportunity to inject ads, influence thought, and scrape user information.

[freedomben]

That will certainly come in time. We're already starting to see/hear the beginnings of it. My hope is that the market maintains competition because the moment one or two corps have monopoly/duopoly they will go full throttle toward that I'm afraid.

[kortilla]

The potential upside in positives is actually there. New cures, personalized really good medicine, breakthroughs in every scientific field, etc.

The people are there because they are betting on AGI, not chatbots that make software engineering go faster.

[wolvesechoes]

It is not enough to invent a new medicine. You also need to make it easily available. People investing in AI are not interested in giving new awesome medicine to people that couln't afford it.

[sandeepkd]

any concrete evidences to support this theory from the past 12 months would be helpful here (where evidence > marketing fluff)

[kortilla]

Talk to employees at anthropic and OpenAI. Listen to the talks from the higher-ups. Sam Altman even said something to the effect of “we don’t need a working business model because AGI will figure out how to make money”.

[recursive]

The upsides for social media were there too.

[acedTrex]

I mean, I am no LLM lover but in the possible "success case" there are also many many other cool/good to humanity use cases.

Whereas ads are almost exclusively negative.