Ah, so you are one of the people that we-who-are-not-using-AI are being forced to subsidize. You're talking about your own budget, but how about you pay me for the delta you caused on memory prices? There is no such thing as a free lunch and I want my money.

I'll reach out to you offline, I'm looking to get a new xbox.

In the last year I deleted all of my old open source projects. I'm doing some closed source work now on an app that isn't releases... and everything is yelling AI at you from GitHub to Gitlab. I may open source parts of this library at some point if they mature.

I'm begrudgingly on Bitbucket, but mentally ready to move if I find something new. Maybe I should take a look at codeberg again if I am ready to post a mix of open source and closed source. For those who don't know, Godeberg is a fork of Gitea after some kind of hostile takeover.

I would like to self host, but I don't know where I would setup a computer at the moment.

Yes, at some point things become uneconomical for commercial blurays to be pressed, like it or not. I think the future of physical games is likely cartridges because you can buy generic parts that get used for other things as people will always need memory.

However, I often talk about how the internet creates a perverse relationship between companies and users. If a company needs to pay money to host servers, they are incentivized to find offsets for the costs. There is a component of how companies train their users to consume their goods... a great example is the Android ecosystem where users have been trained not to pay for apps because of google ads. Platforms like Playstation have put their stores first on the UI to train users to buy from the online store and this has been a long term outcome. It is *not* just a thing of users not being interested in physical disks.

It's been a while coming, but we are finally starting to see the Big Tabacco moment for tech. We have no business placing faith in Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft or Apple as the financials do not match up for appropriate behavior around children.

While I believe that fair use laws only get you so far for pirating work.... there is a reason that AI companies pay licensing for news and other media. If you personally pirate work, you are more likely to be on the side of AI companies as they are now, though you should understand as the AI companies mature this gravy train will not continue indefinitely.

If you use subscriptions like Apple Music or Spotify, you already should know that these types of platform starve artists where they get an even smaller portion of the money than if you paid for an album. A million plays in a month is not enough to live on and AI is helping to expand this problem to other sources of media. It legitimately is a cause of concern for the health of content creators from news to movies to music.

One of the most visible effects of the internet taking over when you look back is how high budget music videos largely disappeared after the 2000's. There isn't the money to create them like that anymore. The money that went to labels is now going to tech companies and as fellow publicly traded companies they have an obligation to squeeze. Part of that squeeze is how tech companies have taught users to be transactional with artists, where people only stream or listen to single tracks.

There can be positive things from AI, but that is being drowned out from the negatives. These negatives will continue to drive negative sentiment. Those can try to make excuses, but we who are not using AI in our daily lives have to pay the subsidy for you people who are generating your cat fart pictures. My games are more expensive. Hard drives are more expensive. Basic utilities are going up in price. I think it is insightful for those having to pay for the people actively making our lives worse to say, "You should just go die in a corner." These are honest conversations.

Long term there are major benefits to society if they can drive down the cost of energy, cooling, and computational infrastructure to support democratized access to LLMs and diffusion models without bankrupting providers.

AI falls into a similar category as the benefits to society as Bitcoin, but at a much larger scale. Keep this in mind, AI is used for the things that we don't find important while also having a hazardous environmental footprint..

Here are some examples of things that people no longer find important.

• A replacement for social connections. (Fuck Slashdot?)
• Finding primary information, such as by browsing the web. (Fuck you AP, CBS, Fox etc? Fuck you web pages? Fuck you libraries?)
• Personal photos. Why have experience when AI can make better ones for you? Even if you aren't personally doing it, are other people tainting your photo library?

And this is the happy path. The point of these things are to get you on a subscription, and by extension try to you use to force other people on a subscription. The current AI chatbot approach is similar to social media where you have outcomes of ADHD behavior in children. These are all engagement machines mean to progressively try to tangle them selves deeper and deeper into your life.

I would say you should probably kill yourself, but it sounds like you already aren't really living being excited for these things.. I do believe some of these AI CEOs will die for the abusively aggressive behavior and no way to opt out. Y'all intentionally creating an environment where children feel trapped and hopeless for a quick buck.

I think that this AI conversation is irrelevant as long as everything is rewritten into Rust. /runsaway

I think we are still going to see these kinds of errors making it through on AWS for a while. It's strange in that before AI, correctness seemed to be important for maintaining trust. It's even more strange in that in the competition for incorrect fuzzy answers, it's increasing the price of hardware for everyone. I can't help but think that there is no saving humans.

Is the cost of the Engineers really decreasing so much with AI that it offsets customer losses? Or is this a monopoly type of thing?

I love paying for the opportunity to train AI. The people who buy this are also increasing the prices of everything for the rest of us as well. Thank you.

Google, you are one of the forerunners of devaluing my memories in my own photo collection... and this is just one further step. Because of you, when I look at my photos of my past and I have to wonder which ones are real and which ones aren't. You are AI upgrading old YouTube videos, including personal ones, without consent. Your work to make everything fake has "poisoned the well" of things that are real. Someone should really assassinate Google CEO Sundar Pichai for fucking with our personal spaces where AI is not appropriate.

The work of these companies is of the level of someone breaking into your house just so they can draw mustaches on photos of your family members. People paying for these plans are only going to increase the aggressive homeless panhandling of these businesses with new unwanted AI products.

They can take their robotaxis, scooters, ebikes and everything else with them.

In Silicon Valley's effort to try to force us all to pay more money for things that we don't want... good riddance. For the increasing cost of living... good riddance. Silicon valley has been measurably making the life of normal people worse this last 10 years. I don't want to need to own a smart phone that will track me everywhere just so I can unlock the doors at my apartment complex.

Just go somewhere and die.

The guy who threw the molotov coctail is named Daniel Moreno-GamaA. Unfortunately he doesn't seem to have a gofundme page or something similar ot pay for legal bills. We should be supporting people like this and the people who do support this will only grow.

Many people paying his legal bills would send a message.

If you are the nonviolent type you can pledge money to Stop AI as well as Pause AI. Redit, Facebook etc also have groups around these things if it your thing.

Support these groups if you don't like the direction things are going.

Microsoft owns GitHub which is the only way this makes sense. Sony did a marketing jab at MS for locking games to the console years ago. Though pretty goddamn wierd of a jab even if MS is the owner. Even wierder in that MS isn't the good guys in physical media either. Why is this being covered on slashdot?

Even if these are smaller AI models, they are still likely trained on cloud hardware. The kind that increases water and energy prices, the kind that cause dirty air from the generators, the kind with robot dogs protecting the premises dystopian terminator style

Maybe the offset of the people the hospital saves with the AI makes up for those who die around the datacenter? This all looks like a dystopian tradeoff to me.

It's always convenient to blame the users. That kind of logic (along with saying we can't do anything about it) is why things are the way they are and why they will get worse. You are stating that the behavior is okay and this is why there are no laws around it.

• A company is allow to embed hidden tokens to extract information on you, but if you send an email like that to a company it is called phishing.
• If a company is recording your audio and storing it, it is called AI Model Training or targetting for advertisements. If you do it it is called wiretapping or eavesdropping.
• If a company is recording your clicks, mouse movements and keystrokes it is called telemetry. If you do it to someone's computer it is called hacking.

I'm personally going to a dumb phone for my next phone because I'm tired of the common malicious uses by our tech industry attempting to monopolize my attention. It's gotten out of control. I would rather have the good fight yelling at the fuckers who decided I can't order from a restaurant without a QR code.