/en/tags/data-colonialism/Recent content in Data Colonialism on TimoNova Tech StackHugoenThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800/en/posts/ai-access-power-concentration/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800/en/posts/ai-access-power-concentration/<blockquote> <p><strong>TL;DR</strong> AI applications are spreading rapidly: ChatGPT reached 100 million users in two months, Copilot is embedded in editors, and image models let non-designers create visual work. At the same time, the power to build and govern AI is concentrating in a few companies. Consumers gain unprecedented access, while producers gain unprecedented control. You receive the freedom to use AI, but surrender much of the freedom to define it.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>A young person in rural Africa can now use a phone to receive near world-class tutoring from a GPT-4-level model. In use, the experience can resemble that of a Silicon Valley engineer: the same interface and the same model. From the consumer side, this is an extraordinary democratization of knowledge.</p>