May 26, 2026, 4:12 PMImagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the AI business model.
And here's how they're pitching their slop to us.
Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."
@dbattistella When business turned things into a utility, it was rarely a good thing. Friendly utilities were always owned by the public.
@dbattistella May they rot in hell. Preferably before they die.
@dbattistella If only this guy had bought half a meter of intelligence only. Real human intelligence, not slop.
@dbattistella Public libraries in particular are offensive to predatory capitalists.
@lmgenealogy
Particularly the ai business lives of abusing those public resources for their benefit. This is just not ok and one of the reasons i refuse using llm thievery.
@dbattistella
May 26, 2026, 4:41 PM@dbattistella
bad copies, even.
@dbattistella reading this, the soundtrack from idiocracy starts playing in my head and I wish George Carlin would still be alive....
#AI #SamAltman #AIslop #TechBrosAreInsane
May 27, 2026, 12:51 AM@elwoodthe2nd Me too!
These people clearly don't have the capacity to think things through.
When they are done killing people by restricting their access to information that saves lives, they are expecting the survivors to pay them for that information. Given that AI has already taken all the jobs, who exactly has the money to pay?
I really resent the people who promoted these people to their current status. They are the biggest scam out there. They are rich because they got lucky not intelligence
@AnnieBuddy @dbattistella "They are rich because they got lucky not intelligence".
While there is a degeee of luck to whether they were the one to be chosen they have mostly got rich because they are unscrupulous sociopaths.
Oh right, such an important and key factor.
Sorry, but I was limited in characters. Ha ha.
May 27, 2026, 12:48 AM@marjolica @AnnieBuddy Most of them are rich because their parents were rich and underwrote their schemes.
@marjolica
This. These are intelligent ppl that know what they have, what it can and actually cant do. And yet they sell it as the salvation. This goes so much beyond mere marketing 😡
@AnnieBuddy @dbattistella
Jun 11, 2026, 11:32 PM@marjolica @AnnieBuddy @dbattistella
Choosing the right father seems to far outweigh any other consideration in determining who is rich.
@AnnieBuddy
And consider idiocracy: asking questions requires intelligence. If we start normalizing ai over thinking & learning in schools that may be a real concern sooner than we hope for .
@dbattistella
May 26, 2026, 5:26 PM@dbattistella How did it burn the libraries down?
A.I. slop makes it harder for authors and original content creators to stay profitable by depriving them of web traffic, and it floods the zone with slop that makes it harder for authors of original works to stand out. We lose the equivalent of many libraries when original authors are forced to quit and stop writing.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/25/google-is-cannibalizing-the-web-to-feed-ai/5244641
Anthropic also purposely destroyed millions of books after scanning them to train it's A.I.
May 26, 2026, 7:53 PM@adamsaidsomething @dbattistella it would be better if search engines develop some functionality to distinguish between the #AI generated content and human creation. Or a license would be developed for it, so it would be clear a content is creation of humans or not.
Regarding the #Anthropic and the scanning the books, I think they could use nondestructive cameras like google and archives did. However unfortunately even the libraries also throwing away millions of books as well.
May 27, 2026, 12:37 AM@bsh @adamsaidsomething We're living through both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 😭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9n98SXNGl8
May 27, 2026, 8:31 AM@dbattistella @adamsaidsomething paper books is a physical form of transferring knowledge. It can be done by e-books as well.
May 27, 2026, 12:44 AM@adamsaidsomething @bsh Yes, and eventually AI will begin to cannibalize itself producing more and more hallucinated data, fooling us into trusting outputs that are structurally unsound and unreliable.
May 27, 2026, 8:30 AM@dbattistella @adamsaidsomething what do you mean by AI cannibalizing itself?
What is the difference between misinformation random people would give you and misinformation AI give you? Do you get fool by both of them or do you search about their sources before believing it?
@dbattistella @adamsaidsomething
_bsh_social.tchncs.de
"Joined May 2026"
*plonk*
@dbattistella Absolutely never, Sam
@dbattistella like the “librarians” in the book Service Model
@dbattistella moc hezká představa .. jenže tahle AI skončí ve chvíli kdy nebude mít co krást.(kopírovat)
@dbattistella these guys truly suck
@dbattistella The services that we describe as "utilities" are the ones that are, for geographical or technological reasons, considered "natural monopolies."
The infrastructure of a public water system is phenomenally important, useful, and *expensive*. It wouldn't make sense to build several competing systems. Imagine how long it would take to fix things if your city's streets contained 3x as many pipes as they already do. A water system is a natural monopoly.
LLMs aren't like that at all. There *already are* many competing systems, and distributing those services to users is not a difficulty. They're already running distributed, locally. Their utility to anyone is still an open question.
Who is he trying to persuade with this POV?
@dbattistella "We see a future where Tamagotchi is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a metre."
@dbattistella sure the whole thing will never be profitable. Now they are trying it with building up fear of a dependency they would like to get and never will. Their output is just a washed out replica of the original that no one needs.
May 26, 2026, 6:39 PM@dbattistella Is it not already a utility? Your intelligence is worth nothing if it doesn't bring you money, grow your net worth, etc. Does he live in the same reality as us or is he too self absorbed to notice?
@dbattistella #permaculture as a root mean, getting closer and closer...
May 26, 2026, 6:55 PM@dbattistella I see someone was intelligent enough to bring him water.
@dbattistella
Why isn't this motherfucker booed off the damn stage and pelted with rotten food!?
@dbattistella I Don't understand why it needs rephrasing, Alt"man""s pitch already makes me want to crawl out of my skin
@dbattistella Substitute "Magic Eight Ball" every time Altman utters "AI" or "intelligence" and that about explains it all.
Meanwhile, my intelligence is for free on @beige.party. No metering.
@dbattistella
Every time I see a video of Sam Altman, I want to do one of three things:
1. Punch him in the face
2. Throw up
3. Look for laws that would get him arrested for fraud on a scale never seen before
May 27, 2026, 12:46 AM@BoloMKXXVIII I think there are now millions of people who feel as you do
They will eventually be charging us for the air we breath.
We are not consumers, we are prey.
May 27, 2026, 12:45 AM@Gaznjax 🎯
@dbattistella I bet I can generate more money than OpenAI...
First I strap him up to a lamp post.
Then I charge £1 to hit him with a hammer.
Every time you connect a speaker plays a happy noise.
May 27, 2026, 12:44 AM@Vaneshi Do you accept e-transfers? 😂
It is Good to be the King.
@dbattistella or the other way around, american big tech ai gets special treatment just like american ev industry gets protection - same thing, as a result their valuations are skewed - it is faulty accounting but to be fair chinese models are subsidized too and there is the sending your data to china issue plus agi sovereignty problems perhaps. I think there will be a shakeout and general consensus, eventually we will sell models to chinese citizens and vs vs more of a free for all economic ai free trade zones?
@dbattistella
At the same time as ceasing to print any new books ...
@dbattistella That sounds truly awful. The idea that knowledge is controlled by the wealthy and has to be bought sounds like “pay-to-win” for those who can afford that. We all know how great and fair that model is. Those who have money buy knowledge and become even richer as a result. Those who can’t afford it fall behind. This divides society even further into the rich and the poor. Who wins the most? Those who sit on the knowledge and sell it. People like Altman.
May 26, 2026, 7:37 PM
@dbattistella I envision a world where he eats farts.
@rjblaskiewicz @dbattistella
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He’s a traitor to his species.
Ask him what science this idea is based on?
It’s not. It’s them trying to make as much money off of you as they can by selling you shit you already have rights to.
The fact he can say that in public and no one says anything is depressing. We’re all idiots.
May 26, 2026, 7:59 PM@dbattistella AKA a small number of companies training on humanity's collective intellectual output, then charging for access to the pattern recognition that output enabled, while the people who created that output receive nothing and increasingly compete against it.
May 27, 2026, 12:34 AM@bayo Criminal, and none of this is sustainable
@dbattistella he is talking shit just like his slops
@dbattistella @mms I remember an essay by Steve Wozniak (yes, that one) on government efforts to regulate copiers. He referred to the practice in the USSR of "samizdat", where taboo material was copied and passed around.
I can't find the original, but the lesson resonates with history. Alexandria had a law that anyone entering with a book had to lend it to the Library to copy.
And we already have our Shadow Libraries, and they can't stop it.
@cyberpunklibrarian nklibrarian@masto.hackers.town
May 27, 2026, 12:32 AM@agreeable_landfall @mms @cyberpunklibrarian Yes, Anna's Archives 👏🏽
@agreeable_landfall @dbattistella @mms Aye, but keep in mind that these AI companies downloaded entire shadow libraries to train their AI. It's just another example of corporations stealing your culture so they can sell it back to you.
One of the core values these companies are truly against is ownership. They don't want you to own your own media, period. It's much more lucrative if you rent it from them or subscribe to a service. With ownership, there's only one sale.
@cyberpunklibrarian @dbattistella @mms If that were a non-company, they'd be in jail forever. But notice how The Internet Archive gets sued, but NOT Google Books, even though they've done exactly the same thing.
I believe what Bradbury wrote in Fahrenheit 451: Books will remain as long as someone loves them.
And I've already decided, among the Book People, I will be "The Prince, by Machiavelli".
You can't stop the Signal.