Is that a ploy from Russians who are too cheap to bribe three juntas at the same time and want to consolidate assets?

I’m starting to think this is according to plan. Tinfoil hat of course and a heavy one at that… But in the long-ish run reducing life expectancy will bring massive savings on whatever remains of pension systems and in the care industry.

Maybe not yet, but…

• Spez will turn Reddit into a bot farm and sell this as training data
• Musk turns Twitter into a bigoted cesspool and will sell this as training data, which will subsequently be flagged for low quality (also: a botfarm)
• Threads is a corporate ad dashboard (and we already know how easy it is to GPT copy) and Zuck will sell this as training data
• Facebook is either dead or only good for boomers and Poles
• blogs are dead
• Fediverse is out there waiting to be scraped but possibly too small to sustain a big model

We’te getting there, hopefully.