Proprietary platforms should rot in hell.
No, monopoly of proprietary platforms is not the cause, but the consequence. It's what public wants, by giving money to "too big to fail" companies, to "save jobs", "protect from fakes" and other things majority of public likes so much.
Proprietary platforms should rot in hell.
... except when they are too big too fail? I mean could you live without Google, or DDG?
I mean could you live without Google, or DDG?
Yes, there are other search engines.
Do you post your videos only on Youtube?
I don't post any videos anywhere, but if I did, it would be on free platforms like PeerTube.
And what about AI?
What about it? I don't use AI because it's currently available only through proprietary services. So far I'm not dead. (I sometimes try ChatGPT just to see what I'm missing out on, and it's not much. Every single time I asked it to write a mathematical proof or a program, it was wrong.)
except when they are too big to fail
Yea too big to fail like Facebook, Vine, Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr, Imgur, or Reddit! None of these platforms have users leaving them, dying due to changes to the platform, or are dead. That'd never happen they're too big.
And what about AI?
What about it? There are tonnes of open source models and trained AI, they might not be hosted on a server but they do exist and will only get better. Though I also am of the party that does not see "AI" as compelling so.... where does the bread go when you toast it, I've always wondered?
Though I also am of the party that does not see "AI" as compelling so...
I can't relate, I have used AI chatbots like meetpi for creating marketing campaigns, image creators for mockup images and even Bing Chat in creative mode (GPT4) to help me decide how to solve a github issue.
Yes, there are other search engines.
Can you please name a couple of FOSS ones that work?
I don't post any videos anywhere, but if I did, it would be on free platforms like PeerTube.
So you mean that at the moment that the guy who posted his video dies you can't watch it anymore because his platform also dies.
That is your choice. Me, I don't like Youtube but I have to say that they do have a lot of videos.
But suppose that I have a very good idea and I want to make money with that with a web site, how do I do that?
All depends on your metric of fail(Whoops I broke Poe's law sorry :P)
I can't relate, I have used AI chatbots like meetpi for creating marketing campaigns, image creators for mockup images and even Bing Chat in creative mode (GPT4) to help me decide how to solve a github issue. Writing doc comments is the most basic task it can do well (and it's all free).
Of course people like AI, I do not find it interesting. I like the creative process and will always like that act of creating regardless the medium and regardless how bad I am at it.
Just to throw additional perspective about the AI talk: I use the hell out if it. If i'm coding a new class or script, I have ChatGPT do the first go at it. I then strip out all the wrong parts and rewrite those to be correct. Add tests. (I write unit tests by hand still). Test-and-fix if needed. Then have ChatGPT write the first pass at documentation. Then correct the writing.
It cuts my dev time in half.
I don't recommend newbie programmers use it, however, as the generated code always looks good but is often flawed. One needs to clearly see flaws first. Then check border cases (which I do anyways.) ChatGPT is designed to make the user happy, not provide correctness. That is an important thing to keep in mind as a tool user.
Next time you think about visiting GP or doing blood exams, ask GPT for second opinion, it's quite good.
I also discussed some legal matters with it, also quite good.
I guess, we may safely assume, GPT already pretty much killed StackOverflow and similar discussion forums in other areas.
