The hope is likely that by the time they start charging what it actually costs, the businesses in question will forget that these jobs used to be done by humans at a specific cost. If they just raise the rates slowly enough, it will become a "required" budget line that simply increases year by year, and nobody will question the fact that in year 10 it's 400% more than it was in year one. I've certainly seen that happen with other tech that starts out affordable, gets entrenched, then becomes ridiculously expensive. And it becomes a habit until someone comes along with another disruptive "LOOK AT THE SHINY BAUBLE" tech to displace it. And AI is the current shiny bauble.

Consolidation is not an intelligent path long term. Yet, somehow, we're allowing a singular industry trend to capture not just the speculative market, but entire giant segments of the manufacturing sphere, as well as starting to make preparations to allow it to allow it to capture other resources, like electrical production, access to fresh water, and, of course, the all important tax dollar subsidies that all big business actually runs on.

When you pull back from this, and look at it from afar, what it looks like is an attempt to clamp down and maintain a hold of an entire society via technological means. We're putting all our eggs in one basket, and potentially limitless profit generating basket for a very small number of people, at the expense of all the rest of us. It's already consolidating the data of people, of books, of music, of movies, all data. And it seems determined to consolidate the rest of humanity's available resources. And when that consolidation is complete, will there be anything left for the rest of us? And even if there is, what happens if/when that one, singular entity that we have given all power, all resources, all data, and all focus suddenly breaks, or loses momentum? Do we just shrug and standby watching as our world falls into the technologically driven blackhole we've created?

We, the collective we, are being absolute idiots about this whole AI/LLM thing. We've allowed it to subsume too much already, and it seems all world leaders are determined to keep throwing resources at it. "We must or someone else will." It seems stupid to continue down this path, but no one with the power to top it or even slow it a bit and consider the consequences, has any interest in doing anything other than continuing to accelerate the consolidation. It's like the greed of the elites manifested in a completely carcinogenic and caustic manner, and it will not be stopped until it has metastasized and subsumed the entirety of human society.

Clearly, you've not seen what happens to teenagers when they're forced to go cold turkey due to power outages or family vacations where there's no wifi available. I'd describe the symptoms very similarly to withdrawal, except with a lot more screaming involved.

Fans are theorizing the retirement may be due to him knowing he's on borrowed time already. I don't wish ill on the guy, and it's cool he wants to go do the whole tour thing one last time, but I hope he's more energetic on stage than he's appeared to be in his interviews. Seeing Megadeth should be hype, not, "Oh shit, did he just fall asleep up there?"

If they do host a mass layoff because of AI, they'll most likely hire everybody back a few months down the line, but of course at a vastly lower pay rate. The true motivation for the AI hype is suppression of wages by any means necessary. If the fear mongering over losing your job doesn't work, they'll just shove you out and bring you back later when you're desperate enough to accept even lower standards.

The future's so bright, I need 20,000 SPF sunscreen.

The AI sucking down all your confidential data accidentally let you know it's been scarfing down all your data. We'll try to fix it so it keeps your confidential emails from returning a summary to you while it continues to scarf them down going forward. Sorry 'bout the mix-up.

For the slow in the audience, this was the purpose all along. The "find missing dogs" thing was the marketing approach to sell this furthering of this new addition to the surveillance state.

Four ingredient quick cobbler. Ten minute recipe, five hours of reading to get to the recipe.

Yes, and imagine how nice it'll be to have every individual sentence written by the user turned into a novel-length SEO driven AI hallucination nightmare.

I'm beginning to wonder how many years of usefulness to humans the Internet has left.

I can have all the downsides of Wordpress, with the added downsides of AI assisted content creation AND AI assisted page layout? This is amazing! What an absolute game changer! Can it negatively impact site security and performance in fun and interesting ways while it's at it? That would be super helpful.

Kid Rock is the wanna-be rock version of Kanye. I haven't been able to stand that dude since I was aware of his existence. He keeps proclaiming himself the savior of various forms of rock, all of which are whatever form is the most popular at the time. Him and Corey Feldman should just start a shitty bar band and stay off the national stage for good.

That Coke (TM) cost extra.

Some snake-oils were actually a blend of coke, heroin, and alcohol. And people today claim they had no effect whatsoever.

"Also, vaccines are unsafe and cause autism."

I'm assuming we're days away from, "Just have your kids snort coke off of toilet seats. Look what it's done for me!"

No, but you can provide profit to another of the overlords by pretending a pill will cure it, and maybe feeling a tiny little less shit in the process. Or at least faking yourself out and learning how to chemically ignore the pain.