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Fuck AI

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We could build hundreds of thousands of homes for families that need them, but it goes to stealing water, power, and land instead.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Art, too, of course, none of it actually works without that.

Fuck those homeless/hungry/sick people I guess.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh you own all silicone production for a couple years?

Yeah you ain't got shit kid. I own the entire output of humanity from 2035 to infinity and beyond. I declared it was all for me, and a couple really really big wigs agree with me. So that means it is very real, and very legal and very not a monopoly.

So, you wanna rent everything you used to own from me? to bad, you cant afford it. See you in my prison slave camps later sucker.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

There are reports going around that an AR-15 is now cheaper than current RAM sticks. We could sell our RAM sticks and pay Sam Altman a visit.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This is absolutely insane to me. AI is destroying society.

Now is the time to stand by your principles. And if you don't have principles, maybe raise some. Become anti-consumption and remove yourself from capitalism, as much as possible. Hate those people. You should hate them as much as possible.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It sucks too, because the power for pattern recognition and identification behind Machine Learning is incredible, and if we were being more responsible with it, we could be using it only for truly valuable purposes like early cancer detection, assistant tools, proofreading etc, instead of training it to plagiarise other people's work and kill people somewhere.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

100% agree. What alpha fold did, which had to do with protein folding, was awesome. But ya, then comes capitalism and the idiocy and comfort-seeking of society and ruins everything for everyone.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 173 points 2 days ago (10 children)

110 billion more pumped into a company with no sustainable business model in sight 🫧

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nope, it's a 110 billion IOU...there is no money being passed around. That's why when this pops. It's gonna be grizzly.

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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

And also all the military contracts that Anthropic will no longer take

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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hope altman fell into unreasonable unending depression.

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[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If a RAM stick or my GPU fails in my computer, I’m ruined financially.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

I had 32GB ranked ram and one stick failed. I now have 16GB now.

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[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's easy. You buy a set of ram on Amazon and put your old sticks in the box when you return it.

I upgraded half the parts in my computer this way over a year ago. We really need to promote stealing from large corporations. It's silly how many people are still following the rules of society when they aren't.

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Until they decide to sell it again and the next customer gets what you returned instead of what they ordered

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Over a year later. Falls under petty theft which has a statute of limitations of a year in my state. I'm not losing sleep over it.

And this is all theoretical for internet points. I'd never actually do something like that. Never never never. Not even once.

I also don't weight every fruit and vegetable at self checkout as a potato (lowest cost per weight item usually). I'd never ever do that.

I like you. You have a great mind.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fuck 110 billion.... These people have way too much money to burn. Literally throwing money away for some shit tech that so far hasn't produced any returns and probably never will.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah seriously, $Billions and $Trillions are too common in the media to have the impact they should have.

This one headline is discussing an investment of $110,000 MILLION Dollars. That's enough to let an entire football stadium (either US version or everybody else version) of people retire tomorrow.

40 years of 100,000 people working $15 an hour would just barely make that much. Before taxes. And unpaid sick time. Of course. Sorry to be US-centric but we seem to be leading the way in this whole Road To Dystopia thing.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sam Altman is a money launderer. he's just holding the money so everyone else can say they don't have money

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[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This confirms me that anyone with a cute anime avatar is a huge weirdo. It doesn't even look like him.

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[–] Tamps@feddit.uk 69 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We are grateful for the support from our partners and have a lot of work to do to bring you the tools you deserve.

What about the ram and storage I deserve?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 35 points 2 days ago

They’ll have you subscribe to their RAM and storage.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. Nobody asked for AI.

What we ask for is cheap storage and RAM.

They are taking away something we want, and replacing it with something we don't want.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

of course his PROFILE picture is ai GENERATED. i cringe at that cartoonish look that my older bro does with pictures.

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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use my computer so seldomly that I honestly don't care. When it dies I won't be replacing it at all. The Internet quit being fun and interesting a decade ago and my smart phone is a time suck that makes it too easy not to practice music and only brings news that spoils my mood. I genuinely miss the all analog life. Thanks for reminding me. I'm going to go say hi to a stringed instrument now.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

my smart phone is a time suck that makes it too easy not to practice music

I felt this on a personal and professional level

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

the tools you deserve

What did we do wrong to deserve this?

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The tools we deserve/need are cheap. A few pieces of wood and an angled blade.

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Even micro SD cards have got crazy expensive.

I think some CEOs are starting to slowly realise how unpopular AI is with the public. But at this point their sink costs are astronomical.

It'll be gone in 3 months and they'll be asking big daddy gubbment for a handout

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'm an idiot, that goes without saying, but I think that if anything needs another round of investment AND that extra investment is 110 billion of any decently used currency then maybe, just maybe, something is fundamentally wrong with the product in the first place.
However, like I said, I'm an idiot so what do I know.

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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The merry go round of fake capital continues.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 40 points 2 days ago

I profoundly hate this timeline

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

So this should satisfy Sam Altman's hunger for a week?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago

So anyway, I pumped one of the biggest bubbles in history again

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nvidia buying more of their own GPUs. Definitely not a bubble, just kind of circle shaped

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[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Last October I built a new PC for the first time in a solid decade. My aging Intel 6700k has served me well. I had no idea of the missile barrage that I dodged by upgrading when I did.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

NVidia, AWS, and SoftBank are all involved in data center construction. Wonder how much of the $110B are essentially 'store credits' that just cycle back to them?

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I just upgraded my laptop's ram so I hope that is the last I'll need for a few years.

[–] doesit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A lot of people won't have a computer/phone to make use of AI because of this 🤣

[–] Senal@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's the goal, once you can't outright afford the hardware what do you think happens?

Subscriptions of course, much like the phone "contracts" of today, now you can rent a PC, or better yet subscribe to a cloud instance of a PC.

You'd still need to subscribe to the LLM of course, but that'd be easier if it was bundled with your cloud computer subscription.

Then comes the software bundles, because they can't just have you installing whatever you want on their cloud machines, that's leaving money on the table.

Eventually with the next generation, or the one after that it will become normalised, just another thing you can't own because fuck you, that's why.

FML: i scroll down maybe 10 posts and this : https://programming.dev/post/46457240

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

RAM, like fines for breaking the law, is only for the rich elites.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand, ChatGPT isn't even a well performing AI. It's a household name, sure, but it's quality sucks.

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