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Entire industries cannibalizing one another to eliminate competition and their industry's ability and desire to make the products/services they existed for in the first place. TimeWarnerHBODiscoveryblahblah shelving projects for tax cheats, making lazy appeals to nostalgia for what the companies they destroyed once made, and cheap reality garbage instead of actual media comes to mind, but it's terminal capitalism, it's happening in every sector.
Then they lay off their workers cutting their workforce to the bone by activist shareholder demand, eliminating potential consumers of the economy.
Now they want to use AI to cut the bone.
The economy no longer has any interest in the human beings it was created as a lowly tool to serve. We're being cut out entirely, except the small class of private owners, of course.
AI could and should be used to free mankind from tedious labor, that's why such innovation should have come from well funded PUBLIC research our economy should have been oriented to feed for PUBLIC benefit.
Instead, like every other technology, it will be used as yet another cudgel against society. This civilization is dogshit.
Welcome to late stage capitalism where the game's made up and the points don't matter.
Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
I've tried to use "AI" to help me with minor programming tasks, or to start basic projects, it's really bad. As in, it takes me more effort to fix the garbage it outputs than it would have to write it from scratch. In addition to that, it writes things badly in non-obvious ways. Junior engineers make similar mistakes to each other, because they're working logically. "AI" makes weird mistakes because it's not working in the same way a human mind does.
There is a book series called rats bats and vats, which is a humorous book that has the shareholders own everything and only clones/animals do all the real work. If you were not a shareholder, you were akin to a slave.
If we keep going, the ai and ourselves will be the non-shareholders in this situation.
I Put on my list, sounds like it has some animal farm vibes.
It's wacky for sure. It's by a pro-union author and you can see it first hand.
Soon AI will make AI content for other AI products to interact with, cutting humans off the production and consumer side entirely. Then tech giants will just pay and charge each other infinitely and we‘re rid of their nonsense because we simply stop looking at screens that have nothing worth watching to offer anymore.
Twitter is an innovator in this field. If they license their content to LLMs like Reddit has then it will truly become an ouroboros, the AI eating its own tail.
A-fuckin-goddamn-men.
There is no tool that is OWNED that will ever serve the public without first having to pay the owner.
There really are some things that should be publicly owned, but of course that LeAvEs MoNeY oN tHe tAbLe and that's a worse sin than murder to our society...
Most of AI is open source, so everyone motivated enough can try it! It's public and anyone who has the will, can use it to benefit the public.
I do myself, on albeit 5 year old hardware that struggles on my home server, but with decent GPUs with decent amounts of Vram running in the thousands, it isn't accessible to most even with the inclination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2024/01/25/emergency-expense-savings-study/72356517007/
AI is open source, but running it is an expensive proposition, Raspberry Pis need not apply.
The owners can buy all they like without a thought though to use against us for their gain.
I’m running both image and text generative AIs on an 8 year old PC with a $250 nvidia 3060. There is some latency but it is very usable. I use them as the brains of a private discord bot. Granted, it’s not going to be enough to start a business but it has paid for the video card with image credits and donations.
So yeah, it can be expensive but it’s still reasonable to run it on budget/used hardware for personal or small scale implementations.