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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Thus transferring their money to openAI, Anthropic etc? How does that help?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    More companies with less money is better than a few companies with all the money.

    Ultimately distributed power has to be more democratic, and centralized power has to be more fascistic.

    That's part of why governments having large distributed bureaucracies each with their own authority and independent ability to intervene is better than say; a single executive office/president controlling everything directly.

    Distribution also leads to stability though (making it harder to challenge the status quo), so it's a double edged sword.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    those companies arent profitable either and they have same problems in which it costs them more to run their products than they are currently charging people to use it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    What do you mean by either? Walmart and Amazon make tens of billions in profit a year if not a quarter.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    i thought we were talking about OpenAI, antrhropic, etc, not Walmart?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Did you read the title? It says to spend Walmart and Amazon's money on AI. And you said "those companies aren't profitable either" which would mean, using normal rules of English grammar, that "Walmart and Amazon aren't profitable and OpenAI and Anthropic aren't profitable either". So what are you talking about? What does "either" mean?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    ooh I see. my bad. erase the word either from my comment, it wasn't necessary.

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