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Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' (fortune.com)
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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We can simply build the tech then throw the billionaires out.

We did that with the fediverse but the billionaires still control the online conversation.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, sort of difficult to keep that from happening when they can offer large sums of money to gain behind the scenes control either directly or just by paying a bunch of people too make and run communities that mirror the biggest ones on Reddit.