The lack of safety guardrails in AI

Can you imagine buying a piece of furniture where the manufacturer says, "Look, you COULD fall off this thing, so please use it carefully."
Would you buy a gas stove that says, "Well, I COULD leak, so please use me carefully and watch out for gas leaks."
Would a company order simple ball bearings that do not pass quality tests?

No, we cannot imagine commercial release of unsafe products.
Except, AI.

In response to a teen suicide, Open AI decides to take age proof from users.

But, IF a chatbot is encouraging thoughts of self-harm and suicide, does the age of the user matter?

Open AI says it will try to inform parents and failing that, will inform law enforcement. Google and Meta already do that in many countries - inform law enforcement when a suicide is imminent. That should have been in the core design!

Why should any company be able to release potentially unsafe products to any user category?

And I am left wondering.. how did an entire industry bypass both quality and safety requirements?

Why do we read the news?

When i come to a new place, i pick up the newspaper very diligently. Partly because i can't have the morning chai without a newspaper, and partly because the newspaper tells us a lot about the society. The news that get TRP tell us a lot about the viewers. 

But this morning, a different thought came to my head - universally, the quality of news is questionable at best and abysmal, realistically speaking. 

So, why do people still watch news? Why do we still read fiction and propaganda labelled "news"? 

I think.. the reason is that somewhere, reading news makes us feel better about ourselves. Perhaps it makes us feel that we are more "aware", more "involved" in daily citizenship. Never mind that our news is the latest update from some celebrity child and some propaganda related to a complete non-issue that has found 4,203 petitions signed within 24 hours by "concerned citizens." 

 

Words I identify with

 Dendrophile 

Oh, Amazon!

You know that 3 click rule we learnt back in the 90s on user experience Design? 

Amazon Prime UX designers have obviously never heard of it. 

6 clicks to see ANYTHING, and I am not counting the ads we have to navigate. (by the way, those trailers are the best way to ensure we NEVER watch that junk) 

 

Why I don't visit doctors

I have often been asked why I dont visit doctors for my issues. 

Here is the full, detailed answer: 

I do. I do visit doctors. 

They get some tests done, look at them, and tell me, "Maybe it is stress? All the reports are normal." 

One doctor went on to say, "I honestly don't know what is wrong with you. I cannot help you." 

That's it. That's the only answer I have got from doctors. Either this, or the prescription of medicines that my body did not need. 

I have two autoimmune disorders that got diagosed - not by going to doctors for 12 years, but from an online support group. They kept pumping antibiotics into me even when all the culture tests came back negative. A two hour Google search told me about both options - film covered bacteria and auto immune disorders. I read more patient records and figured I was closer to the auto immune issue than the film covered bacteria. Went to a homeopath who thankfully heard me out and was open enough to say, "Yes, i think you might be right. Let me prescribe medicine for this and lets see how you respond."  No allopath even listened to patient concerns. 

All allopathic doctors do is follow protocol. 

If your child has fever, we assume viral and wait for 3 days before giving antibiotic. 

Google or AI can do this IF-THEN-ELSE better than you. 

Your job, as the doctor, is to KNOW when a child is not doing so well and when they need to start antibiotics. 

Your job, as the doctor is to listen to the patient and go beyond the protocol. 

For that to happen, the pharma industry has to stop dictating protocols. 

You, as doctors, need to fight to remain relevant. If you allow your wisdom to be taken over by protocol, then those years of practice amount to nothing. 

If you don't tell the patient whether a certain drug causes thrombocytopenia, the patient will find out online - in 30 minutes vs the two it would have taken you to tell them. 

There is something to be said for kirana stores.

I don't think the consumer should celebrate the end of kirana stores or the rise of Quick Commerce.

For these reasons:

1. It is only a matter of time before a health emergency happens (rats, yes). If you enter a warehouse, you will not be able to order from quick commerce again. By the way please do wash everything you get from quick commerce. Keeping the dark warehouse rodent free is not in anyone's KRA. Let that sink in. There are no health and safety standards applicable to these warehouses.

2. It was exactly like this before Covid. Then Covid happened and the local kirana stores sustained us. Like typical humans, we paid back with inbuilt ingratitude.

3. The customer is killing something that is both convenient and sustainable. The customer is creating monopolies. Then cribbing about high delivery charges is what use? You killed the competition and ensured enough reliance on this business model to make them monopolies. The customer literally is giving their choice away.

4. Creating 10,00,000 delivery partners who are not able to do justice to their basic health is good for whom? Lazy customers? Because this kind of work culture for 10,00,000 people is not good for society overall.

5. We underestimate the importance of stray conversations in combating loneliness. I buy most of my stuff from real retail stores and cannot overstate the importance of these connections. Pharmacist - 18 years. Stationery store - 21 years. Grocery store - 21 years. Optician - 10 years. Sabziwala - 4-5 years for one and nearly 10 years for another. Appliance and Electronics Store: 20 years. Sanitary Supplies: 15 years. They know me. I know them. Now, we also know each other's children. (The concept of 'strokes' was explained by Dr. Eric Berne in Transaction Analysis, in case you are looking for theoretical proof).

6. In Arthashastra, Chanakya says - Vyavhar is only among equals. A strong king and a weak king do not 'negotiate'. The stronger king sets the terms and the weak king accepts them. If you take a bread back to your kirana wala and say this was stale, he will quietly take the bread back and give you a fresh one. Try doing that with Zepto, Blinkit, Swiggy, Zomato. You cannot negotiate with big kings. You can only put up with them. Do not create behemoths - because they are detrimental to your own welfare. Nurture equal stakeholders.

Like AI, you can either hate or love QCommerce, but you cannot avoid it. Like AI, you can decide how much of it you want in your own life.

Behavioural Security

We readily acknowledge that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. 

BUT, people do not want to be conned. NO ONE ever said - Its ok to get conned. What's the issue?  

So, why are they the weakest link? 

I have been thinking about this very deeply. 

In one line, its simply that security has been projected as this esoteric discipline (rocket science) instead of making it a natural everyday thing to do. 

The second is that the approach to security in human behaviour has been directive - Do this, Don't do this, be Scared of this... 

This is never a good approach to take in behavior change. 

Presenting, a new discipline: Behavioural Security - the discpline that focuses on understanding human behaviour and creating models of change that lead to safer behaviour. Much like any other change management. 

Why do we need an entirely new discipline for this? For the simple reason that there is plenty of work to be done. 

I created one video to make it easy to create a complex password that is also easy to remember. And then it hit me - Why do we make it so hard for normal people? You are told to change  your password once a month, to make it Greek and Latin, but no one tells you HOW to do it! 

The education is largely directive, the verbiage fear-inducing rather than supportive. 

But the worst thing is the victim shaming. NO ONE wants to be duped. And yet, after every single episode, the victim is made to feel like a culprit. 

For far too long, companies and governments have focused on the tech side of cyber security - Bounty hunting programs, firewalls and AVs, zero day vulnerability assessments, VAPT... even the OWASP Guides and Top 10 are all tech. They do not focus on human centric security design. It is time to change that.  

So, let's get the work started! Let's research, create experimental models of change, verify those models, and end the era of humans being the weakest link in the chain. We are smart enough to deserve better. 

On victimhood

It just occurred to me that our religions are basically determined by our mindset. We may be born into the same religion, but we will practice it according to our own thoughts and emotional needs. 

For some people, their religion is victimhood. Whatever their birth religion, they will convert it to victimhood. 

I call it a religion bcs religion is basically a way of life. It percolates into every thought, action, and belief. It guides us. For these people, that keyword is victimhood. It is all pervasive -  in their thought, belief, and action. 

These are the signs of a follower of this religion: 

A. It is never their fault. It is always someone else's fault. They may kill someone, but it will be the fault of the victim, the society, or the person who stared at them when they first started assaulting the victim. 

B. They don't need AR. Because they basically live their lives in AR - Alternate Reality and Augmented Reality. In that reality, their own contribution to the world is greatly augmented in their minds and the world's contribution to their lives is greatly altered. 

C. No gratitude - this is the most telling symptom. A perpetual victim feels no gratitude, only a deep sense of being owed. Everyone and everything owes them (Read B above). 

If you find such a person near you, first: 

A. Do not marry them. 

B. Do not hire them if they are expected to be a part of a team. 

C. Do not work with them in the same team. Ever. 

D. Be aware of the level of AR that you want to deal with, and keep the friendship accordingly. 

PS: This is meant to be a funny post rooted in reality. Please don't kill me for the use of the word religion. I have already explained the reason religion has been used. 

On Ramachandra Guha, Romila Thapar, and other deemed historians

 Guha is not a leading Indian historian. He is not even a historian. He has written some books that he and his cabal thinks are history. The rest of us classify them as delirious fiction.

Why do we need a Census at all?

 The objective of a Census is 'almost' accurate population count.

But now, we have the Civil Registration System which tells us how many births and deaths there have been. The entire machinery has been tailored to ensure that no birth or death can go unregistered. Succession does not happen without death certificate. School admissions and even Adhar card does not happen without birth certificate.

There will still be cases of unreported or unclaimed deaths, unreported births in remote parts of the country.

So, can we not optimise the usage of national resources by using the CRS data for metros and urban centers, and using the state's Census machinery for remote areas, where there might be lapses in reporting?

What do you think?

Investing for women

As a woman who has always made the effort to do personal financial planning myself, there are some lessons that I have learnt over 22 years. 

This is the gist of those lessons. 

If you are a woman who has just started earning: 

The first thing you should get is a personal vehicle. Preferably, a car. If not that, a two-wheeler. 

But a car that is about 20-30% more expensive than what you can afford right now. 

This is because the car has to stay with you for 10-12 years. In a couple of years, your salary will go up and you will wish you had a bigger car. Also, car loan can be paid off quickly - about 2-3 years. 

As your salary grows your savings will automatically rise. Ensure that you keep some liquid cash in FDs etc. that can be easily reached in case of an emergency. 

Be absolutely ruthless about cashflow management. If you need 50,000 rs for your monthly expenses, keep 55,000 in the bank and put the rest in a small 25-day FD if you don't want to commit to a longer period or illiquid investment. 

To the extent possible, use your credit card. This gives you points that can be used for stuff, 45-day free credit period during which you earn interest on your money in the savings bank. 

Once you have 6 months' expenses worth in the bank in liquid investments like FD or Cash fund, start investing. 

The next asset class you should look at is gold and real estate (a house to live in). Unlike men, for women, a house to live in is a HUGE security net. In the worst-case scenario - you get married, you give up your job to look after the house/kids, and then things don't work out. If you have a house to call your own and 6 months of liquid money in the bank, you will be a LOT more confident of your decisions either way. They will be decisions of choice, not decisions of compulsion. This worst-case scenario NEVER plays out for men. Only for women. 

Let us assume real inflation is 8-10%. So, good investments would be ones that rise more than 8% per year, and poor investments would be those that rise less than 8% per year. This puts FD in the poor investment category. Houses and gold are both assets that rise much faster than inflation and general hikes. This means that every year, that 100 gm bar of gold or that 2000 sft flat becomes LESS affordable to you, even if your money in bank is increasing. That asset is becoming expensive at a higher rate. That's all. 

Personally, I bought gold and real estate first (within first 7 years of my first job) and then did stuff like stocks, mutual funds, etc. I still buy gold at every dip. Silver is also meant to be a great asset class, but I dont know enough. 

Understand how your asset classes work and then delve. If you work with an investment advisor also, understand what they are getting into. We have had cases of advisors offering us 20% returns, only to find that they were offering trading expertise with a long term insurance plan also to be bought. They would not offer trading expertise without buying the useless insurance plan with a 10 year premium paying term.  

Majority of investors in FnO and day trading make losses. So, it is very useful to do a dummy portfolio first before putting any real money. 

And most important is this: 

There are many parties in the world. You are not invited to all of them. And that's ok. 

 

What are the top 5 security risks for young professionals

1. Political Manipulation (aka Election Interference) 

2. Dopamine Addiction 

3. Incorrect use of AI 

4. Identity Theft through Deepfake 

5. Financial and other Fraud  

What we should do about education

Whichever way you look at it, education needs help. 

In 2023, more than 10,000 papers were retracted by journals for being fake. 

This article gives a good perspective on how we created this Frankenstein. 

This year, the top US universities found themselves answering to the House of Representatives about support to terror on their campuses.  The Harvard president resigned.  As did the president of U Penn. 

The youtube recording of this hearing is heart breaking. 

Graduates are not guaranteed jobs. In the West, we had job fairs instead of placements any way, but this year, many premier institutions in India had to reach out to alumni for internships and jobs. They did not always succeed. This hasn't happened in one year suddenly. For some years now, placements have been a challenge. 

It's not just higher education that's suffering. 

School teachers are quitting in droves in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and India. (see links in bibliography at the end). 

So, we have stressed out teachers, frustrated students, broke parents. For whom is this system working? 

It doesn't matter. The fact is, its not working for the primary stakeholders - students, teachers, and parents. 

For decades, education has needed reform. 

That reform has been forthcoming. The National Education Policy, drafted with inputs from the public, educators, and specialists, made some important changes - vocational skills got priority, 

Here is my set of pointers for education 

1. Delink research and education 

It is enough to be a good teacher. One should not need to be a good researcher as well. 

They are two different jobs and while a teacher who researches is great, it should not be mandatory.  There is no logical reason to club these two professions. 

2. Have more practitioners in the classroom 

As a student and a parent, i would like at least 60% of the classes to be taken by people doing the job in the field. There is a huge difference between how it is supposed to be done and how it is actually done. Students need to learn from practitioners. Have them as visiting faculty, or professors of practice. But get the doers in, so that the kids learn how to do. 

3. Pay teachers more 

It's as simple as that. Pay them more. Wayyyy more. Elementary teachers have to do a lot more than high school teachers. Their patience is saintly. 

If a parent had to pay someone to babysit and educate their child at home for that many hours, they would pay, at the very least, 10x more than what they pay per hour to the school. From that, the teacher makes a measly penny. 

The reason that teachers don't get paid more is that parents don't want to be involved with their children's education. When selecting schools, they look at the infrastructure, the brand name, but they don't ask to interact with the teachers. HOWEVER, when doing private tuitions, the same parents want to know everything about the teacher! 

Please, invest in your teachers. They are going to mould your children. Ask the school to pay more to them - both attention, and money. 

4. Make subjects relevant 

At least in India, subjects up to grade 10 are largely relevant. Everyone needs to know basics of history, civics, economics, physics, biology, and chemistry, etc. But the subject matter - not so much. What is covered in high school subjects needs a rehaul. A total rehaul. 

More children need to know how to fix appliances than need to know integration in maths.  

More children need to know the biology of all their organs than the biology of frogs. 

More children need to know how to grow their own food than the creation of Hydrochloric acid in a factory. 

5. Zero Tolerance for Political Activity 

Unless one is designated a political activist (i.e., formal participation in student politics), an academic institution should have zero tolerance for all political activity. This includes but is not limited to: 

A. Social Media posts where the poster names their institution on their profile. (i.e., where they can be recognised as students of so and so). 

B. Events and speakers at the institution. 

C. Volunteering as a member of the institution. 

D. Any place where they represent themselves as being students of an institution. 

I feel terrible recommending something as Draconian as this, but where does one draw the line? The kind of support for Hamas terror we have seen on American universities is shocking. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LMLIGwluao

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelabramwell/former-teachers-reveal-final-straw-moments

https://www.devlinpeck.com/content/teacher-burnout-statistics

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/08/teachers-england-schools-figures-department-education-survey

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/03/06/more-teachers-quitting-than-usual-driven-stress-politics-data-shows/11390639002/

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/young-nsw-teachers-quitting-in-record-numbers-20220923-p5bkfq.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkx2fdGFh4g

https://www.businesstoday.in/education/story/india-has-a-deficit-of-over-1-million-school-teachers-unesco-report-308683-2021-10-07

https://www.indianpolitics.co.in/number-of-teachers-quitting-for-mental-health-reasons-hits-record-high-in-japan/

Startups that work directly with farmers and artisans...

Startups that work directly with farmers and artisans: 

How is it that your products, which come directly from the farmer/artisans are more expensive than similar products that follow a much larger supply chain? 

Answer: We ensure that farmers/artisans get their due in terms of higher prices. 

Ok, then can you transparently put on each price tag how much of this price is going to the farmer/artisan? 

Answer: Errmm....... 

This is not to belittle the work of great startups that are truly trying to make a change. But I have always asked for this transparent pricing, and not received it. Sometimes, the prices are clearly good, and we pick up things. 

But if I am getting Irani mamra for 2400 rs, and you are selling me Gulbandi sized Kashmiri Mamra at 2000 rs, boss, no prize for guessing why the market is hard to develop, no? The customer that buys this kind of produce knows their produce. You have to educate a California almond buyer about Gulbandi and Mamra. But a mamra customer knows their mamra. 

Why Gen AI is not ready for monetisation, and won't be for a long time

 Grok is already paid, Chat GPT has a pro version, and Gemini is considering a premium version.

But none of these Big Tech companies is willing to assume any liability for anything incorrect - even blatant lying - churned out by their pro versions.

I think it is wayyy too premature to monetise Gen AI.

Here are three major things that need to be resolved before Gen AI can be monetised:

1. Big Tech has not yet addressed the issue of compensating creators for using their work to train AI. While C2PA now makes it possible for all creators to forever mark their work, Big Tech is not likely to volunteer that it is using any of this work for its personal, commercial use. And copyrighted content they have already used remains unpaid as on date.

2. They have also not addressed another major issue - who owns the copyright to work generated using AI? If the watermarks are anything to go by, Big Tech might start to copyright content generated through its engines.

3. The third thing they have not addressed is liability for abuse - we are aware of deepfakes and their use in crime, of course. But there are other ways to abuse Gen AI. We obviously cannot expect Big Tech to take any responsibility, but then, who does?

Until these issues are resolved, imho, regulators should expressly prohibit monetisation of Gen AI.

There is a concept called "fit for human consumption" - it is a state that a product has to reach before it can be given to humans. Gen AI, imho, has not reached that state yet.

The Putin interview with Tucker Carson

Putin: Who blew up the Nordstream? You personally might have an alibi but the CIA has no such alibi. 

************* 

You know in the war of propaganda it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world's media and many European media. 

********** 

Tucker: Do you think Zelinsky has the freedom to negotiate an end to this conflict? 

Putin: Why not? He came to power on the expectations of the Ukrainian people that he would lead Ukraine to peace. 

Thoughts from an ICU

Quality, by definition, relies on uniformity of process. It requires that every interacting entity be given the same treatment. And through that, it ensures uniformity of experience. Which is great for machine parts, cars, powders. 

But humans, by their very nature, require personalised care. Uniformity of process will only ensure non-uniformity of experience. Therefore, in all human interactions - hospitals, education..... quality has to move from uniformity of process to uniformity of outcome. Everyone must get the personalised care that they need, so they can all feel cared for, accepted, and well. 

On Lakshadweep

 Lakshadweep is an interesting case study. 

1. 70% of the people in the island are "Not Working" - neither full time nor part time, as per the 2011 Census. 

2. Everything on the islands goes from the mainland. 

3. Tuna, which is one of the most expensive fish in the world, is found abundantly around Lakshadweep. But the first tuna processing plant was set up in June 2021. 

4. Even though there are ten uninhabited islands on the archipelago, solar power transmission was not seriously explored until January 2024. Before this, there was one solar power plant on the main island, but the bulk of the power generation was through private diesel generators. 

5. Only one luxury hotel was operational in Lakshadweep. It was shut down because the locals protested that the hotel served alcohol, which is haraam in Islam. Neighbouring Maldives, also largely Muslim, had no such issues. This hotel was on an uninhabited island. 

6. Shri Amitabh Kant had made a presentation to help create ecotourism huts in Lakshadweep - as far back as 2019. The project did not take off. 

7. It also has the highest population density in India. The density of population of the district as per 2011 Census is 2,149 persons per sq.km as against 1895 in 2001. 

8. There are two aerial connects - Agatti and Bangaram. The other way to get there is to take a cruise ship from the mainland (Kerala). The commute is 14-15 hours. 

9. The entire place allows no alcohol because it is an Islamic region (yes, this is different from alcohol ban in Bihar and Gujarat, where the cause of ban is control over crime rate. Here, the reason for the ban is the religion of the majority). 

10. There is only one crop on the entire region - coconuts. Some people have private vegetable gardens etc. but mostly everything is carried from the mainland. 

In terms of livestock, most islanders keep goats and poultry. Cattle is rare because feed is expensive and hard to come by. 

There are only 2 occupations - fishing and coconut farming. Tourism is NOT a major employment option. 

11. There is ONE coir processing factory, nothing to create processed food items from coconut. 

12. The per capita income is, as expected, low. But what is even more interesting is the level of skew. Because of the strong caste based employment, the land owning communities make a lot more money than the (non) working other communities. 

IF tourism has to develop in Lakshadweep, some changes, imho, that will need to be made are: 

A. Reduce the government aid and slowly phase it out. 

B. Create policies for PPP tourism infrastructure. Develop more helipads and have choppers with higher capacities. 

C. Make alcohol permissible. 

D. At the end of the day, it is the locals that make or mar a tourism experience. Today, Lakshadweep citizens have reserved college seats on the mainland. Make those seats reserved for tourism related courses, so that the local population prioritises and is upskilled on tourism revenue. 

E. Like Maldives, start with and stick with eco tourism. 

Lakshadweep is a very important archipelago for India's naval interests. The coral reefs are important ecological resources that matter to all humanity. 

IF this is the start of a new chapter in Lakshadweep history, shubasya sheegram! 

Only four things

This morning, i was thinking about all the people I know who lived long. 

And I realised, actually, it boils down to just THREE things that they do right. 

1. Right Breath 

Deep and conscious breathing as a matter of course. 

2. Right Eating 

Right eating is not salads. It is eating as per your prakriti. If a tamas prakriti person tries to eat salads, they will not benefit. Same for Rajas. Only satvik prakriti needs simple kand mool diet. So, eat as per your guna - dosha (prakriti is the combination of guna (Satvik-Rajsik-Tamsik) and Dosha (Vata-pitta-kapha) ) 

3. Physical activity 

They all were physically active. Not like 8 hours in the sun active (though that is obviously great) but they would get up and do their own cooking, laundry, and other household chores that involve bending, stretching, etc. They would take the stairs for one or two floors. 

4. Right Sleep. 

Sleep according to your own Circadian rhythm and the light of the sun. Most importantly for our times, sleep enough. Don't skimp on sleep. 

Thats it. Right Breath, Right Food, Right Sleep, and keeping the limbs going. 

Yes, Sam Altman did breach trust. Worse, he made it hard for the world to collaborate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-microsoft-hit-with-new-author-copyright-lawsuit-over-ai-training/ar-AA1kmo8Z

When Sam Altman was fired, some media house reported that the Board felt that with the Open AI Open Day, Sam had taken the organisation towards a commercial direction that did not fit with the original goals of Open AI. 

Open AI was built as a non profit, to create AI for ALL. All being the operative word here. Equitable access to AI capabilities is vital to an equitable world. Whether we like it or not, AI is the competitive advantage of the future. 

But the bigger issue is this - Open AI was trained on possibly yottabytes of data by ordinary citizens and creators of content - on the assumption that the LLM would be used for AI for All. Just like Wikipedia was created by millions of individual contributors giving their time and knowledge for free - on the premise that it was a free, open-to-all public encyclopedia. 

The Microsoft investment was the first dent in the "for ALL". In one stroke, only one company stood to gain the MOST from the LLM - from the contribution of millions of individuals whose work was consumed by Open AI to create Dalle2 and ChatGPT. 

The story is an action replay of the Wikipedia story. Google donated significantly to Wikipedia and magically, Wiki results started appearing on top of Google search results. Searchers found the best information on top, and Wiki got a lot more hits (and donation, of course). It was a win-win for both - but not for the creators who gave hours to create Wiki. They never got compensated. 

It is the same for Open AI. It used content from literally millions of creators to make Picasso like paintings, write in the style of so-and-so author, and write specific types of content - college essays, research papers, opinion pieces - based on the essays, papers, and opinions of people who did not, and never will, see a dime. 

The trend of a nonprofit creating something big and universal, only to sell it to the highest bidder, is not just against the moral principle. It is also a breach of trust. The creators who donated their time and knowledge generously, as they did prompt engineering and provided feedback to ChatGPT, were contributing to AI for ALL. They were not contributing to Bing's Image Generator or Bing ChatGPT.

Secondly, and more importantly, as a creator, why would I trust the next "Good for All"? 

I know I wouldn't, personally speaking. 

And to me, there is something very wrong with both these things. 

Which is why I love this news: 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/openai-microsoft-hit-with-new-author-copyright-lawsuit-over-ai-training-2023-11-21/

But here is something I cannot understand: 

Why would a non-profit need to monetise?

Someone was funding Open AI from 2015 to the time of the MS investment. Why was that model not sustainable? 

In unrelated news: 

Bard can now analyse Youtube videos and give you really intelligent answers. 

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/google-bard-ai-can-now-watch-youtube-videos-and-answer-your-questions-here-s-how-to-use-new-feature/ar-AA1koDdn

But the millions of youtube creators that are helping Google monopolise the search market even more, will never see a dime of that multi-billion revenue. 

#InDefenceOfTheCommonMan