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If this AI stuff weren't a bubble and the companies dumping billions into it were capable of any long term planning they'd call up wikipedia and say "how much do you need? we'll write you a cheque"
They're trying to figure out nefarious ways of getting data from people and wikipedia literally has people doing work to try to create high quality data for a relatively small amount of money that's very valuable to these AI companies.
But nah, they'll just shove AI into everything blow the equivalent of Wikipedia's annual budget in a week on just electricity to shove unwanted AI slop into people's faces.
You're off my several order of magnitude unfortunately. Tech giants are spending the equivalent of the entire fucking Apollo program on various AI investments every year at this point.
Because they already ate through every piece of content on wikipedia years and years ago. They're at the stage where they've trawled nearly the entire internet and are running out of content to find.
So now the AI trawls other AI slop, so it's essentially getting inbred. So they literally need you to subscribe to their AI slop so they can get new data directly from you because we're still nowhere near AGI.