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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Absolutely fucking not.

Nationalizing AI companies represents nothing more than a big tech bailout, leaving the American taxpayers holding the bag for the grandiose excesses, industrialized IP theft, and borderline fraudulence of some of the richest and most powerful corporations in modern society.

Hell no. No bailout for big AI.

They stole everything they have from the people, and if they are too stupid to figure out how to turn unprecedented plagiarism on a global scale into a viable business plan, then they deserve nothing more than to fail outright.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if they are too stupid to figure out how to turn unprecedented plagiarism on a global scale into a viable business plan,

Have they tried asking the LLM to generate one?

"Claude, justify your existence in the form of a well-written business plan for a mult-billion dollar company"

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is the government seizing control of a company and its assets a bailout?

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Because these "assets" are at best hemorrhaging billions of dollars per year, and are also the result of total cultural strip mining. Why would I, as a taxpayer, want to take over a massive, and massively unprofitable business?

I think it's naive to believe that the government will seize these companies without without a huge amount of taxpayer cash winding up in the hands of big tech companies and their owners.

Let failing businesses fail. Leave the taxpayers out of it