On a only slightly related note: When I worked on a helpdesk many years ago, at the end of my shift at night, I'd use that same technique to call my own cellphone, as well as my girlfriend's, connect the two, and have hour long conversations for free.
Are you saying Google is herding their users to the new product of their competitors? I honestly don't understand what point you're trying to make here.
On the other hand, if we move from larger and larger models with as much data they can gather to less generic and more specific high quality datasets, I have a feeling there's still a lot to gain. But quality over quantity takes a lot more effort to maintain.
This is not whataboutism - it's looking at the bigger picture. The point is that you should want to prevent all mass surveillance by social media companies. Not force them to sell so that the government can get its greedy paws on the data.
I'd be surprised if OpenAI wasn't already using that data to train with (that is: questions and accepted answers of a high enough threshold). But at least now SO (not the actual users who create the value) is being compensated for it.
Not even sales people, just marketing people without a fixed affiliation. The only people they influence are the people for whom the name influencer is not a red flag that they're being lied to.
Having said that, "influencer" is a lot shorter than that, and at least everyone will know what you mean.
If you're actually interested in results from Reddit, you should put in site:reddit.com. Otherwise, you're just encouraging/rewarding sites that use that term for their SEO spam.
Check the article itself, don't let the clickbait title fool you.
The issue is mostly about these companies circumventing paywalls and stealing the content without permission. Furthermore, it's not about getting News from AI, but these news sources being cited for "facts" that are just false.
Mmm yes, news about unions at a car company. Definitely why I subscribed to a tech community.