Scary article

    • limer@lemmy.ml
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      This boom will go bust, because most of it is worthless. Then it will be bailed out by governments.

      It will be the greatest transfer of wealth from the average citizen in the history of humans, and future historians will remember this primarily as a scam and theft

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        22 hours ago

        My worry is that it’s not going to burst

        It’s just going to capital leveraging their wealth

        To make computing inaccessible to the masses

        Except under strict cloud-based circumstances which they control

        You can only afford tablets with 2GB RAM

        You can’t make games, code your own platform, host your own services, pirate media, store legal media locally, or talk shit about Trump or billionaires or the government

        And if you do they will revoke your access, including the way you pay bills and bank, register your car, keep in touch with family. Hell most phone calls are digital now

        VPN and Tor clients no longer exist. Linux is illegal, only Windows or iOS/Android allowed.

        The ultimate enshittification.

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            Criminalising Linux is the big thing. Once alternative OSs are made illegal, it doesn’t matter how efficient your coding skill may be, you won’t have any way to run your code. In the long term, the more reliant on Vibe Coding, the fewer real programmers will exist. Even embedded systems like Arduino and ESP32 would not safe.

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        21 hours ago

        We need to start getting promises from government that they will be no AI bailout.

        Not that politicians promises are worth anything, but it will make some people think twice before investing in NFT 2.0

  • infinitevalence@discuss.online
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    I really don’t know why they think they will get to control it. It’s shocking how powerful a model can be run on modest hardware.

    Most of the data centers being built will be obsolete in 3-5 years and there is no way they will be profitable in that time.