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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

FOSS isn't a "new and emergent technology". The OSI was founded in 1998. Richard Stallman started the FSF in the 80's.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 3 points 17 hours ago

By that metric, llms aren't new either and the blockchain was invented in 2008.