> As often as OpenAI is maligned in the press, everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing.
To quote Jonathan Nightingale from his famous thread on how Google sabotaged Mozilla [1]:
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The question is not whether individual sidewalk labs people have pure motives. I know some of them, just like I know plenty on the Chrome team. They’re great people. But focus on the behaviour of the organism as a whole. At the macro level, google/alphabet is very intentional.
Oh, you know, it's only largest chemical producer in the world. Oh, I'm sure they produce some very important things, but it can't hold a candle to Facebook.
Anyone who sees the future differently to you can be brushed aside as “ignoring reality”, and the only conversations worth engaging are those that already accept your premise.
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Mass adoption is not inevitable. Everyone will drop this "faster harder" tech like a hot potato when (not if) it fails to result in meaningful profits.
Oh, there will be forced mass adoption alright. Have you tried Gemini? Have you? Gemini? Have you tried it? HAVE YOU? HAVE YOU TRIED GEMINI?!!!
It's actions like this that are making me think seriously about converting my gaming PC to Linux - where I don't have to eat the corporate overlord shit.
what i like about your last jokey comment is that discussions about ai, both good and bad, are incredibly boring
went to some tech meetups earlier this year and when the topic came up, one of the organizers politely commented to me that pretty much everything said about ai has been said. the only discussions worth having are introductions to the tools then leaving an individual to decide for themselves whether or not its useful to them. those introductions should be brief and discussions of the applications are boring
back in the bar scene days discussing work, religion, and politics were social faux pas. im sensing ai is on that list now
We use probably all of Google's products at work, and sadly the comment is not even a joke. Every single product and page still shows a Gemini upsell even after you've already dismissed it fifteen times
Basically says "customers have the right to not be profiled and are entitled to not be shown algorithmic feeds"
> GDPR
Costs about 0 to implement as long as you only user data as intended, and not sending it off to 2763 "partners" who "respect your privacy".
What "insane regulatory burden" are you talking about?
> can fight for years in court and if they have to pay a few billion, so be it.
The only reason these poor poor innocent trillion-dollar supranational corporations fight these laws in court is because they really don't want anyone competing with them, or to respect such minor things as user privacy. Not because the laws are somehow bad or complicated.
Even DMA, the most complex of them all, can be understood by anyone.
> If Apple was suddenly a nice friendly corporation, would the browser landscape in the EU change much?
Not immediately. Because there are literally no browser vendors beyond the existing three. Everyone else is just söapping on different coats pf paint on Chromium.
Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary.
I think they are. Maybe not directly as you point out but there are lots of indirect reasons that don't seem that far fetched.
1. Using Apple Maps makes the switching cost to other devices (that don't have Apple Maps) higher.
2. Having more users makes any future monetization more valuable. I understand that there doesn't yet appear to be any direct monetization but I very much expect to see it at some point.
3. Removing traffic from competitors hurts them making their product relatively better the the competitors.
To quote Jonathan Nightingale from his famous thread on how Google sabotaged Mozilla [1]:
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The question is not whether individual sidewalk labs people have pure motives. I know some of them, just like I know plenty on the Chrome team. They’re great people. But focus on the behaviour of the organism as a whole. At the macro level, google/alphabet is very intentional.
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Replace that with OpenAI
[1] https://archive.is/2019.04.15-165942/https://twitter.com/joh...
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