Good luck; this is textbook fascism and one of its features is that it’s totalitarian and will sink its claws into every single aspect of your lives unless you fight back at every level.

4Chan? This seems to be like… a decade too late, at best.

Love the sentiment, curious about implementation.

User data has been the internet’s greatest treasure trove since the advent of Google. LLM’s are perfectly set up to extract the most intimate data available from their users (“mental health” conversations, financial advice, …) which can be used against them in a soft way (higher prices when looking for mental health help) or they can be used to outright manipulate or blackmail you.

Regardless, there is no scenario in which the end user wins.

End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.

Look, in today’s world, you get to choose who spies on you depending on your chosen platform, but spy on you they absolutely will. Wether it’s the Russians, the Chinese or USA. The only way to not get spied on is to not use electronic communications at all.

You’re probably not wrong. It’s definitely along the same lines… although the repercussions of this particular one will be infinitely greater than those of the industrial revolution.

Also, industrialization made for better products because of better manufacturing processes. I’m by no means sure we can say the same about AI. Maybe some day, but today it’s just “an advanced dumbass” considering most real world scenarios.

Because the goal of “AI” is to make the grand majority of us all obsolete. The billion-dollar question AI is trying to solve is “why should we continue to pay wages?”. That is bad for everyone who isn’t part of the owner class. Even if you personally benefit from using it to make yourself more productive/creative/… the data you input can and WILL eventually be used against you.

If you only self-host and know what you’re doing, this might be somewhat different, but it still won’t stop the big guys from trying to swallow all the others whole.

There are ads but they’re subtle enough that you don’t recognize them as such.

Musk may be the richest man on earth, but there’s several things he craves that none of that money can ever buy. Like respect. Love. Being able to hold your pee. A working dick.

You know, the simple quiet enjoyments the majority of working class people don’t have nearly as much issues with.

The latency is shit but the bandwidth is surprisingly good.

There’s always this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

The internet isn’t what turned everything to shit. That was capitalism. Technology of and by itself is never evil, but of course there’s always tons of people ready to use it for evil purposes. Our current ‘big bad’ is still simply capitalism though.

Calling it now: before the end of this decade, doing anything (legit) online will require users to verify with a government-backed identity solution provider. Both in EU and US (and therefore de facto everywhere it matters).

Maybe then we’ll finally get a cool separate web with hackers and neuromancers and whatnot. Probably not.

Me and like two or three other people ARE an entire niche on Lemmy. That’s both the beauty and problem with it.

May a cure be in reach for all those struck by this horrible disease.

So they essentially raided one of their subsidiaries?

There’s another consideration: it has to be as cheap as possible to produce. And that explains the advent of reality TV.

Don’t forget, there’s also people deliberately poisoning ai. Truly doing God’s work.

That might be a while. AI cannibalizing itself is a real problem right now and it’s only going to get worse.