How is this a surprise to anyone?
To me, the single most notable thing about Gabbard, from the first moment she sleazed her way onto the national stage, was that she had zero principles. Not just the relative lack and flexibility common to politicians but a complete absence - nothing but a featureless void where whatever passes for principles might be in another politician.
Am I the only one who noticed that?
I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that a lot of the backdrop for the AI arms race is a competition to see who can succeed in paywalling the internet as a whole.
Machine learning is more in the nature of a side business. The primary goal of scraping the entire internet is to then strangle the original sites by denying them traffic, so that the data the corporations have stored away in their centers is all that’s left, and anyone who wants to access it will have to pay them.
It’s essentially rent-seeking on the largest and thus most brazenly evil, scale the world has seen yet.
And made just that much more evil by the fact that it’s all based on content that they’ve stolen from us in the first place.