books are tangible.

It's amazon. They probably burn the books to generate excess CO2, and us the heat from that process to run large noisemaking fans to annoy anyone within three miles of the facility. There's probably a kitten killing machine involved as well for no clear reason.

Every single article about Amazon is pretty much Dr. Evil level nonsense.
Why do you people keep buying stuff from them?

From the ones I've seen , aren't they just barely usable and generally don't contribute much at all to your electricity needs? I looked at some a few years ago, they may have become better. But at the time it felt like "pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for something that saves you $5 a month.":

They ragebaited you, didn't they?

Looks like someone fell for the ragebait.

I know for me, if I read something I disagree with, I may snark at it-- willingly, as I know it's driving my algorithm. But I generally don't get angry and view much of it as useless fluff I can effectively ignore.
One of my past best friends, however, was a hard left Bay area resident, and she eventually got pissed off and "officially" dropped me as a friend because I wasn't angry enough about some thing that occurred which I can't even remember. It was literally " I can't be friends with someone who isn't angry enough about [insert thing here]". I probably can't remember because she was angry about all sorts of things.

nazism is back in fashion, it just picks on "zionists" now.

Which sounds like what they may be attempting.

If only AI companies can buy ram, and there are no end users in anything other than old, under resourced broken down systems, what's the point?

I can at least respect Cage's work ethic. He's a weirdo, but when he blew all his cash on absurd things, instead of just declaring bankruptcy and fading into the sunset he decided to take every possible job that came his way, in whatever quantity that entailed. Some good. some horrible. most meh.
I've got "normal" friends who would shy away from that level of fix.

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except: why produce anything of value if AI is simply going to suck it up and reserve it to people? Why spend time on "original reporting, proprietary data, real expertise, or genuinely distinctive analysis" if in the end, everyone will ask AI and AI will repackage your work?

The only issue , though, is as we go forward. The quality of results will fall off. If a website or forum can't get anything but AI scouring it, they'll simply cease to exist, and AI output ( based on input) will fall off considerably.

Klarna always sounds to me like something a Klingon would say.
"Klaaaaaaarna" as he runs towards you with one of those funky Klingon blades.

At some point, any given channel will go from "trusted recommendations" to "they're shilling for a company". And once you lose that authenticity, you're just another commercial in a long lifespan of commercial advertising everywhere.