Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI 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.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 week 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.
Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 week ago
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.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 week 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.