| > They paid for it, much like everyone else. That's really not how it works. Did you miss the part where the RAM vendors, had they known their rivals were also selling all their RAM to OpenAI, would not have sold what they sold? OpenAI, who did know this, and what it would mean for every other industry and device on the planet that needs RAM, chose to go ahead with it. Because all they care about are themselves, fuck everyone else I got mine Markets are imperfect because of information asymmetry, aka the Cheating Bastard Problem. After announcing the deal and the truth coming out, they could also have said "hey, we see now this crimps all other industry but ours. We'll make this right, we'll reduce our RAM order if our vendors would prefer that." But they didn't, because fuck everyone else I got mine As the AI companies are so flush with cash, they could afford to offer a Common Crawl, so everyone who wants web resources for their models or whatever can get very fresh cached copies from a common crawler, which obeys robots.txt and crawls in a fair way so as not to overwhelm the source webservers. But fuck everyone else I got mine, so here come a million dodgy scrapers to bring down everyone's site. And in terms of natural resources, one does not simply "pay" and get whatever they want. Any government worthy of the name puts its own residents needs above the lucrative offers made to them by amoral outsiders who couldn't care less if the residents lived or died. If you're a consumer of products and you know the product was made by taking away vital resources from people elsewhere, then you're complicit in that action by continuing to buy the product. |