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I worked with AI daily as a programmer and let me tell you something people aren't talking about.
People are myopic about the way they are looking at this whole data centre rush. Its not about speeding up ChatGPT or anything so prosaic. What they are doing is building the compute infrastructure to integrate AI into everything.
So what people need to realise is AI != ChatGPT. There are a plethora of different "AI"s that aren't LLMs. And a lot of those non-LLMs are VERRRRY good at what they do.
They want to deploy a horde of AIs and apply them to all data sets, real-time or stored. They'll have AIs watching you drive, and fining you, they'll have marketing designed at warp speed tailored to fuck with you specifically. Recording conversations on the street and processing and aggregating them. They'll start to tie together government DBs and use AIs to mine them for information.
They are automating control and power and im not seeing it talked about anywhere. They haven't even begun their fuckery yet.
I'd like to add that this doesn't even necessarily have to be intentional.
I'm certain the current bubble will pop sooner rather than later, but by that point (and today already as well), all the infrastructure, the data centers etc. will already have been built.
And they will not just disappear.
Some might be scavenged for parts to be sold off, but far more likely, I unfortunately think, is that governments will (be lobbied to) step in, and prevent the loss of hardware, of companies, and especially of jobs. They obviously won't start the money-burning, consumer-facing ChatGPTs & Co again, so what else can we do with all that hardware that's sitting there, looking for a purpose?
Exactly the thing the person above me said. Implement the surveillance state at an unprecedented scale and speed, because those GPUs need SOMETHING to do, lest all that capital be wasted.
There will be a bailout, and we'll all suffer for it.
I think this is the lines they want people to think along. But I think it's a lot worse. These data centres have very little to do with AI as the public currently imagine it.
I genuinely believe a lot of them arent being built to make money. They same way police don't buy riot gear to make money.
They are building the hardware for a final stage boss level surveillance and control project, and dropping a smoke screen about AI bubbles and chat GPT while they do it.
palintir is already pretty integrated in targeting protesters, and i suspect another form AI is being used for "catching red light violations" at stops already.
There might be some people thinking along those lines, but I'd be careful to tread into the territory of conspiracy theories. To me this seems a lot more like a case of "The bad implications are pretty obvious when you think about it - but we can't let that stand in the way of making a profit!".
Yeah it's definitely verging on conspiratorial. The data centre rush doesn't really make sense in any other context imo.
I feel like the mask western govs have been wearing for the last 50 years are slipping and the old cunts are still there and now they have this new tool.
Even before LLMs people were ringing the alarm bells about the inevitable tying together of disparate GOV DBs, AI just gave them a way of utilising the data that didn't exist before.
Unfortunately I feel like I will be completely vindicated on this one, and im not a conspiracy nut at all.
Social scores too. On all the video, on streets, in buildings, of every word captured, every web page visited, comment made. Half baked ai from the worst people like thiel will be giving social credit scores to secretly affect your job prospects, police and courts and government treatment, down to what results search engines show you, or prices that will flash for you specifically in digital price tags or online.
Europe is doing this now too, under age controls, and chat control and preventing child abuse, by child abuse they really mean preventing dissent on israel first and foremost, but everythinf else too. Their politicians are surrendering their populations to tech for a cut of the info. All while a far right is tbe only real reform choice, making them inevitable and then too the dissolution if the eu, and fixung of elections. All because bs like this, and the cynical far right will just retool it for themselves make no mistake.
You're point about the far right being the only alternative is so true it hurt me a little inside to read. Its happening in the UK.
Worse than Orwellian. It's the multivax from The Last Question embedded in Big Brother, and only for Big Brother.
It's like a 90s era episode of The Outer Limits
I want off Mr Bones wild ride