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[–] 60 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 child)

Many wealthy, powerful people take credit that they don't deserve and earn an enormous profit for doing so. It is a common enough belief that having enough money or power to enable someone else's idea makes the enabler as, if not more, important and deserving than all of those involved in every other aspect of the project.

What has "AI" become, after all? Rich and powerful people stealing the entire collective knowledge and creative works of humanity, mostly without just compensation or even consent. They then combine that collection and a vast quantity of wealth to take as many resources as they can afford to, half in an effort to deny those same resources to competitors trying to do the same thing. Their goal is to become the most dominant source of truth and creativity, which they will then hoard and rent to the highest bidders. All the while promising the good it will do, while simultaneously manipulating the output of this "source" so that it more reflects their interests and worldview.

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  • [–] 17 points 12 hours ago

    Yeah, we as a society have long since abandoned the idea that you have to have done hard work yourself to be deserving of praise or recognition. At this point, if something exists, and nobody else is claiming that they made it (or if you have enough power to say it louder than they can) you're free to do so, and feel proud of your accomplishment regardless of whether any effort was made on your part at all.

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