"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."
I've seen this quote without attribution a couple of times. Whoever said it, they're spot on.
-Juliet E McKenna
I think that this misses an older quote that has repeatedly been proven true in the internet age.
If you don't know what the product is, you are the product. (Also,
If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.)
What do we know about AI? First, we know the basics- that the current generation is LLM based (they need massive amounts of data to train). Next, we know that each successive generation is getting better, and quickly.
Finally, we know that they also improve
through use, in other words- they aren't just being trained by the original data, but (for example) the conversations that they have with us are being used to further train them. We are giving them the feedback to ... improve even more.
The above quote, IMO, completely misses the point. Of course companies aren't providing us this free service (or cheap service, given the costs) out of the goodness of their hearts! No- they are giving it to us "for free" because they want as many people as possible to use it, because
we are unpaid labor that make the models better, and that will allow them to win the AI battle.
But that's just, like, my opinion, dude.
