True, but I think the fact that a good portion of the services were the “first” to be used also comes into play.
As an example, I always think of WhatsApp, which in my country has (unfortunately) become the messaging service used by everyone, even businesses. WhatsApp was the first to arrive in a market where no one else offered that service (or offered it at its level), and thanks to this, it has gained a following of users who now, out of laziness, don’t want to switch services even though they (perhaps) realize that there are better ones out there.
For many, they use it simply out of habit and the laziness of not wanting to switch to something else. Like those who used Internet Explorer because installing another, clearly better, browser was too much of a hassle.
Because people forgot about “net neutrality” and, for example in my country, mobile operators include 2GB WhatsApp, 4GB Facebook etc. in their packages. The newest trend I saw is “unlimited data for ChatGPT”. Internetust be classified as a utility globally. But at this rate, soon power companies will have “100kWh free for Bosch appliances” or something like that.
Its insane when I was in Texas I heard ads for power companies saying you get “free power” between certain times.
I can 100% seeing people get ai driven pricing that monitors your usage and charges you the most when you are at home or the least when you are at work or asleep.
Its a insane idea to privatize and commodify a utility like electricity like that. LLMs are kind of of the same mechanism but over information on the internet. Pretty soon the internet won’t be accessible unless you have some official google Facebook or whatever account tied to your ID. Every major website will just cease to function unless you sign in. Its pretty much already like that, I can’t see reddit anymore sense I got banned and always am on a VPN. Newpipe forces me to change my IP every 3-4 hours because YouTube suspects I’m a bot. The only way to access any information will be through a LLM, and you will pay out the ass for it and its going to be full of dark patterns to try to keep you on as long as possible, and feed you as much advertisements if they even show you real information and not elon musk/Prager u’s alternative history ai nonsense.
It’s free on poorer countries even for those without mobile internet data. And we know why the service is free…
True, but I think the fact that a good portion of the services were the “first” to be used also comes into play.
As an example, I always think of WhatsApp, which in my country has (unfortunately) become the messaging service used by everyone, even businesses. WhatsApp was the first to arrive in a market where no one else offered that service (or offered it at its level), and thanks to this, it has gained a following of users who now, out of laziness, don’t want to switch services even though they (perhaps) realize that there are better ones out there.
For many, they use it simply out of habit and the laziness of not wanting to switch to something else. Like those who used Internet Explorer because installing another, clearly better, browser was too much of a hassle.
What do you mean its free even for those without data?
I mean even without any mobile credit, you can still browse Facebook in many developing countries.
Because people forgot about “net neutrality” and, for example in my country, mobile operators include 2GB WhatsApp, 4GB Facebook etc. in their packages. The newest trend I saw is “unlimited data for ChatGPT”. Internetust be classified as a utility globally. But at this rate, soon power companies will have “100kWh free for Bosch appliances” or something like that.
Its insane when I was in Texas I heard ads for power companies saying you get “free power” between certain times.
I can 100% seeing people get ai driven pricing that monitors your usage and charges you the most when you are at home or the least when you are at work or asleep.
Its a insane idea to privatize and commodify a utility like electricity like that. LLMs are kind of of the same mechanism but over information on the internet. Pretty soon the internet won’t be accessible unless you have some official google Facebook or whatever account tied to your ID. Every major website will just cease to function unless you sign in. Its pretty much already like that, I can’t see reddit anymore sense I got banned and always am on a VPN. Newpipe forces me to change my IP every 3-4 hours because YouTube suspects I’m a bot. The only way to access any information will be through a LLM, and you will pay out the ass for it and its going to be full of dark patterns to try to keep you on as long as possible, and feed you as much advertisements if they even show you real information and not elon musk/Prager u’s alternative history ai nonsense.