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Comment Re:No shit Sherlock (Score 2) 50

The other problem is they don't have a way to monetize the LLM you're running locally. It can't answer a million requests at once like their system does, but it doesn't need to. The training dataset is the money maker, the thing they used people's copyrighted and private data to build.

They literally do not want you to be able to 'run it on your own'. Maybe use your hardware to help offload work on their servers, but actually just running it locally and not paying them? Hell no they don't want that. When you have GPU acceleration and a decent gpu, you can do a lot of llm and image generation fairly quickly, close to their speeds, for one person.

But their yummy dataset is locked away like a gold treasure, that they stole from everyone else.

Comment Re:AI PCs are the 3D TVs of today (Score 4, Insightful) 50

This is the exact issue. They have yet to prove how AI is useful to the average person, as it's not reliable, can get things wrong, has a lot of limits of usage, and can't actually do anything complex on it's own.

The only thing it has been useful for is to summerize a lot of content (on large scale) I.E collect your personal data for marketing based content and LLMs. None of this is making my lfie easier.

AI didn't check the roads for me knowing my morning routes and alert me to an accident. It's not tracking my vehicle maintenance and reading my ODB sensor to tell me what might be going on with my car, and making sure the mechanic isn't lying and screwing me. It's not monitoring my electricity usage and using any sensor in my house to save me money realizing I'm not in the room and giving me quantifiable data of waste electricity, and offering to shut off lights when people aren't in the room.

Have an Alexa with room sensors? You can make it auto shut off, but the AI data portion? No, that's yummy marketing data for Amazon to see how you use things, and which products it might be able to market for to you.

All of this, in order to get more labor out of you. That''s litearlly it.
Of course no one wants it.

"Hey look! Do you want this great thing we invented to get more labor out of you? You don't? I don't understand,..."

Comment Re: Not new. (Score 1) 143

The pun was just above your IQ level. This is an example of the problem, people don't even understand a play on words. Directionally it's backwards, but given this is an issue with literacy going backwards, backwords is a good pun.

I probably should just play long, "Ah got me, I am so internet dumb, maybe you will grammar gotcha me later and my spell bad, but no u!"

Comment Re:Not new. (Score 2) 143

We were assigned entire books in the 90s in Canada. They keep reducing the requirements to make it easier for the lowest common denominators, and we're finding out that reflects by dropping adults behavior to the lowest common dominator as well.

Society loses, disparity increases. Those who can / the haves grow further apart from those who can't / the have nots.
It's working backwords than how it's presented and I suspect it was intentional.

Comment Re:I'm not one to call for execution (Score 1) 133

Yeah that seems to be the claim when someone is illegally assaulted or kidnapped. "But you do know the wHolE picture!" but my god, someone hurts your feelings and disagrees with you? Threatens to end fraud of beneits? Super hitler Nazi.

This is a general observation, I don't know your opinions and I'm not intending this directed at you.

Comment Re:Economic terrorism (Score 2) 206

I'm just sayin, slavery is gone. You'll never get it back to where it was where you're important and feel you're entitled to things, and other people are forced to work to give it to you.

Attempts are made all the time but the success rate is quite low and fails shortly after. You can have what you want, but you have to work for it yourself.

Comment Re:Hence the discount cards (Score 1) 44

Yeah it's a poor thing to just try to silence your opposition and curb free speech.
Inventing new weapons against your opposition sounds fantastic until they do it to, and they're always so shocked as if how could it ever happen to them?

Best not to do it, and allow people to talk things through instead.

Comment Hence the discount cards (Score 1, Troll) 44

That's always been the game. Use your data to gain insight to exactly how much extra they might be able to extract per person.
Grocery store points card? Yep, you nailed it. They charge higher prices if you don't give them your data, in order to charge higher prices. They're just letting you delay it a little bit while they build their price gouging system.

I'm fighting back. I'm using AI to get information on their prices and historical data so I can determine if the price is good or BS. Sooner or later we'll have database just like they do that AI can pick through and show their pricing BS and make more informed decisions on what to buy and which companies to support.

Comment This was said decades ago (Score 0) 195

Everyone always yelled 'BUT ITS CHEAPER!"
And we all said back, no, no it won't be.

At first it will be, but most of your gas prices is taxes. They will immediately turn around and find a new way to tax your mobility either via electrical charging costs or per mile taxes. It's the perfect way to prevent poor people from being able to move and be mobile. "Oh, I can't go there, I can't afford the stack of taxes I'll get at the end of the year for driving.

It's even better than charging taxes at fill up. People will be afraid of the big bill at the end of the year or when they renew insurance or whatever. With fill up taxes you can determine if, at that moment, you have enough money, or if someone is going to pay for gas. But a big tax bill at the end of the year? Yea we know what this is,.

Comment Re:How dense can they be? (Score 1) 52

Yeah it's the classic not my problem syndrom.
"Look I'm amazing, I did it cheaper, where's my bonus, look at my resume as I leave to next company, look how awesome I was at previous company and saved them money....nO wAy! IT's all cheap and security risk because it's from china? I had no idea! Good thing I don't work there anymore!"

Comment Re:Its getting to that point (Score 1) 113

Sorry I live in reality and not the one told to me. I can't speak for anyone elses experiences, but I had two business trips to the USA this year.
Went to the border, said where I was going and just drove in. No problems, no fuss, no muss, nothing.

Everyone acting like it's dangerous and scary. Yeah, maybe if you have a criminal record and you're doing illegal activities, it's proably a dumb idea to enter a foreign country. I never hear any stories or could find any of regular people going for proper reasons having any hassle. I checked, I was concerned at first too if everything was as nuts as everyone was saying. Each story ended up with some person who has been kicked out of the USA before for trying to stay there or has a criminal record, every, single, time.

I'm interested if I see stories of people who aren't trying to skirt the rules actually getting hassled. Let me know if you have any of those, where I won't investigate the report and the person, and find out they're a criminal or violated laws to get across. I'll read it if you got it. Won't hold my breath though.

Comment Re:Do it and watch (Score 1) 159

I'm not talking about your mom and pop shops.

There's no way they're operating at that with constant larger profit margins every year. We're not talking raw dollars. That naturally goes up as costs goes up, record profits, as in, what's left after there expenses is massively increasing. Out here you can get a back of chips and a 2 litre of pop for nearly 10$. It used to be 5-6 at a gas station, not your main stream grocery store.

Such tight margins my ass.
There's not entirely to blame though. Each time you raise minimum wage, presto. Less buying power and nobody realizes it because they're too hooked on sparkle eyes higher number on the pay cheque even though their rent and food leaves them with less 'stuff' each time.

Comment Its getting to that point (Score 1) 113

Where I'll have a basic cheap smart phone just for all their stupid apps that are 'required' with a different name than my own that only gets turned on when I have to use one of these apps. I'll only hotspot or wifi it. It'll just be an android tablet.

Want my data always all the time? Kiss my ass.

Comment Do it and watch (Score 1) 159

All these companies are making record profits and gouging the shit out of me, like the grocery store. So I absolutely, absolutely, use my most fucking expensive card to get what I can back from these price fixing pieces of shit. 25$ legal payout for charging you an extra 2$ on all fucking bread and fixing the prices for 15 years?

Eat my ass. Someone is going to pay the price for this, and it's not going to be fucking me as you guys expect. I will drop every fucking rewards card and in fact, overall stop using my credit cards all together, and I'll ditch any with yearly fees if I start getting declined to use it. It's only worth it because I can stick it to these greedy record profit making sacks of shit, and it pays for its yearly fee.

I'll switch to just having my low fee card as a backup, and back to using cash, because now there's zero, zero benefit for risking interest, or going beyond my means temporarily for a month.

The level of suck my ass these companies can have is at a record high.

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