Boycott companies trying tonpush for ai, let tjem lose more money for thinking they can spit in the face of the consumer, Now THAT is useful
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They could all lay themselves off
They could produce something useful instead?!
But think of the shareholders!
It’s wild to think that 'actually being useful' is considered a backup plan and not the starting point. Usually, you prove the value before you use all the resources, not the other way around.
The epitome of a solution looking for a problem. Microsoft and others have dropped almost trillions into AI. With nothing to show for it.
It is useful, if you have the freedom to use it when and how you want. Not when Microsoft says so.
Microsoft committed too much too soon and now they're desperate.
I hereby revoke the social permission.
Social permission revoked. Please set the money piles on fire.
They've already lost social permission by making us hate their OS. This wording feels the same as calling lies "alternative facts." You just rename"hatred of our OS" with "lack of social permission." God PR speak is so annoying
The DotCom bubble burst in 2000 and lots of nonsensical companies went under. But it did not mean that the Internet was gone. It just mean that lots of people did stupid investments.
But it did not mean that the Internet was gone.
People thought the internet was a fad too.
Motherfuckers have been buying people out of their homes, emptying entire neighborhoods just to get access to land near power plants and near water sources to build their AI data centers, they've been polluting drinking water sources and siphoning the electricity of entire towns, and polluting like crazy, and they're affraid society might not accept their useless AI porn generating bullshit? Because let's face it, that's what it's mostly used for.
Motherfuckers have been buying people out of their homes
You know those people to choose to sell their property, right?
I'm surprised we don't have a story yet about a town of people weilding pitchforks and torches and breaking into a data center.
They're being paid above market value for their homes. And who knows what other kinds of pressure they're facing.
"Pressure" being an amazing deal they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
You're COMPLETELY removing any responsibility from the sellers and that is just ridiculous.
Where did they buy neighborhoods to bulldoze them?
Here's one example:
There's also Itasca in Illinois
I bet you can find more
They reportedly paid an average of around $950,000 per house — which was significantly above what that land would have been worth as residential
Why are you trying to make it seem like the homeowners have been screwed over? It makes no fucking sense.
Wow wow wow crazy.
Wow is right, those people made a massive profit on their homes.
The rush to build data centers has become the new Oklahoma land grab, with providers competing for prime real estate. In one instance, a data center provider bought 55 homes only to demolish them to make room for its campus. Stream Data Centers, a Dallas-based provider of colocation and custom data-center construction services, last November purchased 55 homes in a 34-acresubdivision of Elk Grove Village, Illinois. According to published reports (here and here), Stream paid an average of $950,000 for each house.
"land grab"? That makes it sound like they did something illegal.
They offered people money and those chose to take it. Wisely. Because they made a huge profit on their houses.
You think I wouldn't sell mine for 950k when I bought at $310k?
True. At least the owners got a good price.
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Need a third button, ruin society to be pressing.
Today in "billionaire says the most blatantly evil and deranged shit ever publicly and no one cares"…
I'm quite a fan of AI actually for only the small things. I mainly use it for stock price projections, looking for earnings report and prospecting for potential stocks to buy. I still verify the information of course. But I still want the AI bubble to pop because it is soooo overrated and I could bet on shorting the crash.
Wow, it turns out "Really convincing-sounding chatbot" isn't as all-purpose as was hoped.
I mean, legit, it's impressive how detailed and precise (and often wrong) it can get, but impressive isn't the same as useful.
I guess AI image generation probably has made concept art mockups quicker for some.
I tried to use it for help in Fallout 3 recently. I didn't want spoilers, so I didn't want to just use a walkthrough or wiki that often just tells you the answer and stuff you didn't want to be told. I thought it would be clever if the bot could tell me little clues to questions like, "Is the key I need even in this building?"
It made up such insane things! Like, "The NPC who carries the key is a ghoul mamed Chlamydia Jane. She's located at such and such."
Chlamydia. Jane.
Some robot had the key. He was in a small room I missed.
People who can't find any use for it are those who are determined to hate it at all costs.
Cooking and weight loss alone is worth $20 a month for me and that's just scratching the surface.
I'm not sure an AI nutritionist in every kitchen is worth burning the environment/economy down.
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Bananapants.
Puts that in my pocket for later
My GPU just started to die and I planned to build/upgrade my PC. Rip I guess all I can do now is hope for the bubble to burst.
You can still get one that's 7 years old and was thrashed by the crypto Bros for 800 bucks though !
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This is your grave, Microsoft. Keep digging it.
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