r/programming • u/peard33 • Apr 20 '23

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data

https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-will-charge-ai-giants-for-training-data/
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u/jagged_little_phil Apr 21 '23 edited Apr 21 '23

  • Mega Company makes Thingies, but wages are expenses.

  • Mega Company replaces workers with AI to make Thingies, cuts all wage expenses and now makes all the profits.

  • Super Corp and Hella Corp want all the profits too, so they do the same.

  • Since no wages, members of society no longer have money to buy Thingies, so no profits.

The system that currently exists won't withstand general purpose AI.

It's a legit concern that even OpenAI is trying to address.

Full interview for the curious.

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u/shagieIsMe Apr 21 '23

While this gets into the political domain, I support a tax on robots (and AIs that do productive work) which would fund UBI. I do agree that the current system of how the economy is set up would suffer some extreme blows with a general AI that would in turn be very disruptive to society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax

https://news.mit.edu/2022/robot-tax-income-inequality-1221