Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion

• fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even if you don’t take profit off the list, it could well be that he had more financial success in these other companies because he uses twitter as promotion and propaganda platform…

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, yeah. That was the entire point of him buying it: to control one of the biggest social media networks ever, and to use that to push and pull the public discourse however he wanted, in the interest of being a kingmaker. And it fucking worked.

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and sadly, the amount of people who use chatgpt to try and get factual information, is quite high… which makes this even more terrifying. It’s about systematically gaining control of communication and information.

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    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve had people on Reddit and Lemmy dispute my comments by citing ChatGPT… AI is a really innovative wrench that people are using as a hammer.

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    • Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.

      If he gets it then clearly it will be the Confederate States ChatGPT.

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      • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.

        Are they as popular, or the default use. How many “alternatives” are actually just piping through chatgpt.

        Controlling information means getting control of the defaults, the ones people are used to using.

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