Yeah, that is how you make sure that you stay a quasi monopoly and can keep taking that massive middle man cut.
It makes no economic sense for a corporation to play fair and allow competition to rise.

I take the gold. I like shiny gold and dollar bills would look stupid in my hoard.

No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.

Valve is one of the less evil ones. But GOG didn’t need to be forced by court to have a no-questions-asked 30 days return policy.

Gamers can buy wherever they want. But game devs either sell on Steam or they basically don’t sell at all.
It’s not a full monopoly. He just has a quasi monopoly. And there are rumors that devs who sell cheaper on other platforms risk not being shown to buyers on Steam…
With great power comes great opportunity for abusing that power to take more middle man tax.

“Art of the Deal” always has been just Mafia methods. He always says “do as I wish or else.” China said no (and the trade war is still ongoing). Venezuela said no and Trump captured the president to make sure, the next one says yes. Iran said no and knows that saying yes would literally not change anything as long as Israel isn’t agreeing too.

Also: Trump isn’t even the first one, doing gunboat politics. That literally is what the US does since end of WW 2.

It might not be as impossible as it sounds. Some of the “open” models are rumored to be able to code. The real problem is that you likely need something with 128 GiB VRAM to run them with a reasonably large context window.

It is pretty rude to leave out the co-author. He knows best how much work the cat did.

It’s safe to ignore string theory until the news about it start coming from CERN.

With Gabe’s absurd amount of middleman tax money obtained by running the defacto PC games store monopoly, the solution is oddly simple: Just start a bank and become a payment processor.

It’s going straight to the X(XX) files.

Baby is like “I’m not maintaining shit without proper centralized package management. Gimme Gentoo!”

They aren’t sitting in their bunkers because they don’t need to. People have still too much to lose to try making the concept of consequences real for billionaires.

Not wrong… But also sounds a lot like communism (the people own the means of production and all that). So it might be a bit too radical for the US.

Trick question. He is a futanari and already has a vagina in addition to his cock.

So their chatbot is able to change the email address used to recover an account? I guess, they vibe coded that system.

I thought, LLMs would never become able to write code. And now, I use Claude Code as the always available senior on coke.
LLMs have a reliability problem. If that gets solved somehow, they can actually drive a worker bot - or a terminator.

And the big money pits also don’t only do LLMs. Those just get all the press because they are usable by normal users right now. Of course, some of those money pits are just investor scams. It’s a fully corrupted society after all.

Yes, society will adapt. If it doesn’t, civil war will force it to. There is no way that 90% of the population of an industrialized nation with a second amendment will just watch their children starve to death because some rich guy sits on food he can’t sell because no one has any money.

The thing, western governments fear is AI-powered terminators. They want the tech first, so they can win the war when someone attacks them. That is the arms race part.

The unemployment explosion is obviously also happening. But that’s actually a pretty good thing in the long run as a society with 90% unemployment and the need to work to live is absolutely unsustainable. AI will basically force the end of capitalism by increasing the system’s volatility until it adapts.

AI will eventually enable a society without wage slavery. Everyone will have enough and some extra. No one will need to work.
And there literally is no other option to get a society without the need to work. AI really is the only way.