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‘Many people from very different groups can come together hating AI’

Content note: contains appropriately salty language

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260821-tante-on-ai-when-this-thing-crashes-i-want-to-see-apologies - podcast (clean version with bleeps)

time: 49 min 52 sec

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[–] bignose@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

David G: “What happens after the bubble pops? What do we do amongst the wreckage of what was once the AI bubble?”

Tante: “A question that really concerns me is [the data centres that have been built]; who will they [the future owners of data centres, after the hyperscalers stop paying] turn to, to get their money back? The only entities that I can think of that have the money to make this worth it, is the military, and the security apparatus. […]

“That is useful for a lot of shit that we don't want. That is a problem that really concerns me. Who has problems that fit to pattern-matching machines; and who has the money [to pay data centres to address those problems]? And that's gonna be a lot of military applications, that's gonna be a lot of security apparatus applications, that we all probably should not want.”

David G: “That's wonderfully probable and depressing.”

Tante: “I'm fun at parties.”

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

appropriately salty indeed! Thanks for sharing