Open post Matt York | stackdump.eth @Stackdump@fosstodon.org · 25mo ago Replying to @dangillmor@mastodon.social <p>Email update re "Microsoft Services Agreement" says: "We’re making these updates to clarify our terms and ensure that they remain transparent for you."</p><p>You click on the "agreement" (which is a take-it-or-leave-it bludgeon.</p><p>The "agreement" is more than 17,000 words long.</p> @dangillmor@mastodon.social Is a EULA merely manufacturing consent?
Open post Matt York | stackdump.eth @Stackdump@fosstodon.org · 2mo ago Replying to @plantarum@ottawa.place This is something I've suspected from the early days of the AI boom. If this stuff was as good as they claim, it would be a closely guarded industrial secret. The fact they're so eager to get us to use it tells me it's primary value isn't what it can do, but what it can be sold for. Or, as Cory says, "Go Meta!". If you think about it, this is coming from a group of people who famously fetishize disruption. The fact that they aren't using their own #AI to disrupt & take over the sectors they are so keen to sell their product to is a huge red flag. @pluralistic@mamot.fr Why aren't #AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/13/go-meta-meta/ @plantarum@ottawa.place @pluralistic@mamot.fr It takes more to disrupt an industry than new software no matter who builds it. AI recursive self improvement does appear to be happening but not at the "technological singularity" level.