> One could imagine a different legal standards for recreational, research, and commercial uses.

Meta used allegedly stolen copyrighted materials to train a model they shared for free with the whole world. Is this a recreational use?

No it is not recreational use. And no, they are not freely sharing it. It is use to build a monopoly, make hones competition impossible and plan charge as much possible on it.

It is the same playbook everytime. We dont have to be naive and pretend meta is doing something for other peoples benefit.

>And no, they are not freely sharing it

Are you unable to access this page?

https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads/

Or this one?

https://lmstudio.ai/models/meta/llama-3.3-70b

>It is use to build a monopoly

How?

>We dont have to be naive and pretend meta is doing something for other peoples benefit.

Meta benefits from the current war of open model competition, but we also benefit from it. In particular, participating in all this makes it hard for them to pull the ladder up when the market changes. They will have to justify why whatever new hotness is better than these existing models already on our hard drives.

"I found this on the web. Check it out."

Should the GPL3 software you download and run also be yours?

Pardon?

Why would the AI companies advertise that most of their users do not use their subscription in full??

> Most developers in China or India have a monthly salary of 1 K USD. If you expect them to pay way more then 200USD thats like asking US Devs to pay 5K a month. Yeha not gonna happen.

That's exactly what is going to happen. India/China prices will be $100-200/month, US prices will be $5000/month. Keep in mind that most of these costs will be covered by the employer. It'll put downward pressure on dev pay, of course.

Microsoft made $17B/month in 2024, Google made $25B/month, Amazon $48B/month. And the computing market is growing.

> Seems to me like they say one thing, do another, and all of us hold the bag at the end of it all.

On the other hand they kept their promises of deporting and killing immigrants, and of getting rid of woke ideas like science and education.

INTC shot up >300% in the past 8 months and is now at its highest stock price ever, fwiw.

I guess Netscape counts. Palm produced devices, so it was not really picks&shovels.

Who else? Borland quietly withered away, but it had never been focused on tools specifically for the Internet.

> Google existentially needs AI for advertising.

What's the explanation behind this? I am sure they use AI in their ad network (matching web sites with ad offerings, maybe generating ads automatically), but is there more to it?

I know AI companies are selling ad training into the models so the models know about your product. I'm not sure if that is what they were referring to, but it could be related.

I am failing to make the connection with the topic of the article. Are Americans sad because they are not efficient with their waffle-batter cups?

Yes. They are wasting their abundance on dumb shit. Even poor Americans have more resources than me. But their society is ridiculously inefficient.