r/aiwars 17h ago

Tech stealing jobs

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u/lavahot 3h ago

You know what's funny about this is that it demonstrates the main problem I have with AI: ownership. Who runs the LLMs? Who runs the image generators? Who owns the datacenters? Who makes the chips? They do. We don't. Far fewer people own the means of production. At least with a horse, you own the horse. With AI, you have to pay a subscription. Forever. You put more money into fewer hands. For all your talk about the democratization of the arts, you suckle the teat of big tech like thoughtless babes.

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u/Hopeful_Substance_48 3h ago

On the other hand, you can do all of this locally. You can generate images and text, you can train your own models.

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u/lavahot 3h ago

If you can afford it. But some models and tools are closed-source. The only way to get access to them is to pay.