• kureta@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      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.

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        16 days ago

        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.