ruytlm 5 days ago

It disappoints me how easily we are collectively falling for what effectively is "Oh, our model is biased, but the only way to fix it is that everyone needs to give us all their data, so that we can eliminate that bias. If you think the model shouldn't be biased, you're morally obligated to give us everything you have for free. Oh but then we'll charge you for the outputs."

How convenient.

It's increasingly looking like the AI business model is "rent extracting middleman", just like the Elseviers et al of the academic publishing world - wedging themselves into a position where they get to take everything for free, but charge others at every opportunity.

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ElevenLathe 4 days ago

We have to invent more ways to pay rich people for being rich, and AI looks like a promising one.

genocidicbunny 4 days ago

Do you think there is a middle ground for a progressive 'detailization' of the data -- you form a model based on the minimal data set that allows you to draw useful conclusions, and refine that with additional data to where you're capturing the vast majority of the problem space with minimal bias?