I can buy the same RAM and the same GPU at the same price I paid 8 years ago. The future!
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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direct quality adjustment cpi would be very annoyed, if it could look at pc prices 
Computer economic productivity falls of a cliff with this one weird trick!
imagine trying to estimate your inventory evaluation with this shit, data centers with terabytes of ram will get millions on balance sheet profits
I remember laughing when I heard an AI company deprecating it's GPU stock at 10% YoY. But now I am starting to wonder...
biggest brain move, appreciate gpu prices faster than depreciation rate and sell your gpu cluster to next chump. 5090 for 5k bucks? wait until jensen personally strikes tsmc facilities and cancels rubin, those gb200 would be like ~~tulips~~ digital gold
I had this idea for this script. All it does is generate a new version of "Make a highly detailed video of Sam Altman laughing and lighting money on fire while people in suits cry around him. The background is incredibly intricate and shows off the full power of the model.", then feed that prompt into OpenAI's Sora which allows a certain amount of free uploads per day. All you'd need to do is manually make a new account, or automate a new email>new OpenAI account pipeline, and it costs them like $5+ each time to generate something nobody will watch.
A second script would do the same for image generators, but continually feed the output image back to them with the prompt "using this authentic news photo from Reuters of Sam Altman burning money, please make a slightly-off version that demonstrates the telltale signs of bad AI images in a way that isn't obvious enough to be spotted by an AI model". Just shitting that back and forth forever, each time costing the company money for something that no AI fan would click on.
I mean it’s pretty far from the worst use for AI
Morally I put it on par with torching a Waymo car. Yes it's polluting the air temporarily with lithium smoke, but the Waymo car is polluting the world by existing. It will cost Waymo money to replace that car, spike their insurance rates, and scare investors away from thinking it's a safe return. If an OpenAI investor opens up the app they're hinging the company's future on and it's nothing but Sam Altman burning their money while they cry and all of those videos have single digit viewcounts, maybe the bubble pops a lil' sooner.
Death to the "milkshake disguised as coffee" epidemic!
Can you even call it a frappuccino if it's not recorded with FRAPS?
This is so ironic lol. Gamers reap
"With AI image and video generation, you can make anything you can imagine for the low low cost of the concept of art and a planet cooking amalgamation of GPUs!"
'Great! Make me an endless series of product placement mop water!'
what level of hedonistic gluttony are you on?
you are like a baby, watch this:
edit: like just going to chatgpt going "MAKE ME A DELICIOUS SWEETIE I CAN LOOK AT AND IMAGINE WHAT IT TASTES LIKE ALSO BURN DOWN THE RAINFOREST TO DO IT" deranged
Well, not thanks to this shit. It is my understanding that all of these consumer-facing AI slop generators are mostly an afterthought and a fraction of a fraction of a drop in a bucket compared to the amount of money corporations, governments and militaries are dumping into "AI" which is what's killing personal computing
They're still enough for passive income seeking hustlers to completely flood every social media site with automated slop in pursuit of ad revenue