When should we all expect to receive our check for the content we contributed to Stack Exchange? 
We paid for the development of the internet. We contributed the content. Now we watch the yacht owners take advantage of both because regulators are
asleep at the wheelowned by corporations.You didn’t think people used the answers for non-profit FOSS projects only. So what has changed?
Yeah, we paid for the development of the internet. We also paid for the building of roads and other infrastructure. We do and did that so that we would benefit from new and better services. That these services are provided by (for profit) corporations was always part of the plan.
Yes, some people profit more than others. So it seems fair to me, that higher incomes should pay higher taxes. This is something that has changed.
also paid for the building of roads and other infrastructure.
Except we don’t (generally) get charged again for using those roads once they have been built.
WDYM? Who is charged again for what?
Roads require constant maintenance, which is paid for through taxes. Obviously, we’re not charged for the building or maintenance of most roads.
But we are charged if we wish to make use of these new AI models
You can download one of the many free models and run it yourself. You’ll find that it costs you money for hardware and electricity.
Data centers aren’t free and neither are scientists or engineers.
Yes, but Google isn’t exactly releasing their model for free now are they. And that’s what this article is about.
[Duplicate] question. Closed
Guess I’m done contributing.
Tbf they never let me contribute. They said I needed to earn some reputation by contributing before I could be allowed to contribute.
Back when you were contributing that content were you expecting to get paid?
Wtf is socially responsible AI?
My very first thought exactly. Probably just a new buzzword.
‘Socially responsible’ is newspeak for corporate-controlled.
Using new, ambiguous terms.
This is very disappointing. What a crap post.
Mm, yes. Exciting.
