Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.
His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
https://disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb-sell-em-smarts/
#tech #chatgpt #samaltman #artificialintelligence #generativeai
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