> What you're not considering is that the manufacturers are building fab capacity like crazy right now.
Which they'll shutter or repurpose if the demand plummets. You think they're going keep those factories churning out memory chips if prices drop significantly?
At the end of the day they have to make a profit. Making a bunch of memory chips with a profit of $-1 per chip is not making a profit.
It just means Gemini will start being rude and will refuse to try to help anyone with a question.
No. The hardware being built for AI is basically using hardware that more closely resembles graphic cards minus the DisplayPort output than anything you can pick apart to insert in your PC. Even the memory modules are completely un-DIMM like.
At best, supply will return to pre-AI levels, but that'll just mean that memory reduces in cost to somewhere between today's absurd prices and Trump's post-tariff prices. The chances of it being reduced to Biden levels is pretty low.
Memory is going to be expensive for the foreseeable future. And all because of what's essentially a con job, an attempt to take over every substantial business in America by making their own employees unable to understand what it is they do, that nobody's prepared to do anything about.
If it's an AI data center (which is generally what people are concerned about the massive growth of) responsible for 911, then you're going to have a bad day whether powered or not.
The obvious solution here is to run the data centers in reverse. Basically feed them long winded manipulative slop, and have them convert it into the original art. This will mean the centers will then start generating power instead of using it up.
It's so obvious I can't believe nobody's thought of it before. We could probably solve global warming if we did this.
Ask the average system administrator who maintains any small website whether the AI companies are still scraping the web, and you might find yourself surprised. Pretty much anything with high quality content that isn't a major well funded site like Reddit or Wikipedia is getting hammered to the point that websites are either constantly going down, or resorting to reCAPTCHA and other similar "Legit or AI?" technologies to limit their use. Every BBS/etc I've been using lately has that anime nurse with a magnifying glass interstitial (see openwrt.org for example) to try to limit the amount of hammering they're getting from OpenGPT, Anthropic, Google, etc.
This is also impacting the ability of those same websites to be found via search engines. It's literally a disaster for the open web.
Anthropic adding watermarking isn't going to do much except add even more self-serving justifications to the AI bros to hammer websites constantly, as now they can distinguish between their own crap and stuff that might possibly be human written.
If all that's changed is one word, there's not nearly enough word choices by Claude to allow them to put in the watermark. The watermark is based upon word choices.
So that specific incidence wouldn't actually get watermarked, not unless Claude decides to do more than correct one typo.
OTOH, it's entirely possible the response "one typo, you wrote CIa instead of CIA, fixed" would be worded in such a way that it would include the watermark. Which would make sense and fit with what Anthropic are claiming. It would also explain why the text explaining that you didn't write CIA correctly consists of four paragraphs plus a bulleted list and starts with an entirely unnecessary complement on your writing skills. Well, that, and the necessity for LLM companies to post manipulative language to try to make you feel good about using their products.
> Certainly no indication they were more popular than Twitter
Twitter died a long time ago. Elon Musk bought it and replaced it with X which is a far right website that "inherited" the user base Twitter had. The reason Threads is increasing is because nobody wants to be bombarded with messages about how they, or their friends, or just people who have done nothing wrong, are subhuman vermin who need to be exterminated.
X's user numbers are inflated. Bluesky is a fraud and BS's users are catching on to that. Threads is, for better or worse, the devil you know without having fascism pushed into your feed. In 2021, there's no way it would have beat out Twitter, but with X being what it is, it's both larger than it would have been then (I suspect, actually, it'd have closed by now), and X is, in reality whatever Musk claims, much much smaller than Twitter is.
And those of us who actually don't want corporate media have our alternative and are enjoying it very much. Once upon a time I would have mentioned it and been furious at all the supposed tech experts here who freak out about "having to choose a server", but, you know what? I don't want those guys in my socials anyway. Maybe one day you'll all "get it", but I doubt it.
> Having to produce physical media is a barrier to competition
No it isn't. The only barrier to competition is the whole digital signing thing which is true of both physical media and online delivery.
Physical media is dirt cheap and always has been. You can print off 1,000 BDs for $1,000 or less. Virtually every software developer capable of buying the equipment needed to produce a game is capable of spending that. What they can't do is actually get hold of the proprietary Sony keys and digital distribution stuff, and that's not going to change.
You're seriously going to vibe code a replacement for Oracle's DBMS and then trust it with your data?
One thing that's infuriating me is that apparently it's now impossible to implement in modern GNU/Linux distros as Wayland does not allow applications (such as file managers) to position windows.
Yeah, really.
And by "not allow" I don't mean "they haven't gotten around to it", they've actually said they're opposed on principle in the mailing lists.
We are running so fast in the wrong direction with UI design it's not funny. GNOME wanted to try something new, and I respect that, but it's like they took everything we've learned about what makes a good UI in the last 40 years, and did the exact opposite. It's one thing to change where the scrollbars are, or decide whether to put menus at the top of the screen or not, or what buttons should look like, etc, but they don't even value concepts like consistency any more.
It's horrific.
He's not doing it. He's not going to do it anyway. He won't do it whether CA sues him or not. The entire movie making industry is in Hollywood. That's where the talent goes. Companies start in other parts of the country and then either go bust or move.
It's even less likely to happen than Tesla will finish its move to Texas.
People aren't going to move out of California just to work for some RWNJ when most of the jobs in that field are in LA.
Linthicum continued: "Linux delivered what I can only describe as a true 'AI desktop' experience
Please, just kill me now.
I dearly want open computers, but not like this. Not like this.
Fuck the world, stop the world, I want to get off.
You're saying workers coops want to acquire more power? That trade unions want cameras on every street corner?
I appreciate that half the people here, probably because they're American, think "socialismimsm means anything I don't like that involves the government" but that's not what it means. And the people self identifying as socialists in government right now, from AOC to Bernie, are not, actually, in favor of cameras on every street corner.
Some political parties, especially in Eastern Europe, identifying as socialist formed governments that were dictatorships. Others, such as those in Western Europe, were and still are democratic, and fought hard for your rights to be unrelated to your wealth.
I know it's hard when you've been subjected to this kind of propaganda about socialists since you were capable of understanding English, but stop believing propaganda.
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