Lightbringer
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Let me retranslate your actual outrage.What. No, seriously, what. I swear, AI is a self-destructive anti-human cult, complete with machine gods (just 1 more datacenter bro, just one more drained lake and another tripling of your power bill bro, then the singularity self-improving AI will arrive), a salvation/punishment narrative (almighty AI that will punish disbelievers and solve all problems... through a large language model at that, which as someone that actually knows how they work it's the dumbest claim of them of all for anyone to fall for), all while slowly destroying healthy markets (all of personal computing, video games, electricity, etc.) for a product without profit, without a path to profitability, without any positive impact on anything other than protein folding and real-time somewhat accurate translation. A trillion dollar solution in search of a problem.
Can't wait for them to start charging what it actually costs so AI slop becomes unaffordable.
It isn't AI.
I do find the water part fun because all sectors of the industry are water hungry, but people make a whole bear with AI because...well, not so much people as a 'loud minority' that dislikes the idea of any possibility that view of the world is made invalid.What. No, seriously, what. I swear, 'rich people' is a self-destructive anti-human cult, complete with machine gods (just 1 more datacenter bro, just one more drained lake and another tripling of your power bill bro, then the singularity self-improving AI will arrive)
AI 'art' doesn't make human 'art' valueless, if anything, it will trim out the bad human 'art'.
But this also doesn't erase the fact that you fundamentally misread value.
Value is inherently subjective, no amount of given work spend or not will make a work 'valuable', only the desire of the one willing to exchange their time for it does.
Also we can't criticize those guys for seeking a machine god when people pray for a day of 'reckoning' (revolution) to solve all of their troubles...unless if we DO AWAY with the silly idea, but nobody is willing to do that now, right?
'Healthy markets', you mean the same markets that kept shotting slop after slop with programmed obsolence?, a salvation/punishment narrative (almighty AI that will punish disbelievers and solve all problems... through a large language model at that, which as someone that actually knows how they work it's the dumbest claim of them of all for anyone to fall for), all while slowly destroying healthy markets (all of personal computing, video games, electricity, etc.) for a product without profit, without a path to profitability, without any positive impact on anything other than protein folding and real-time somewhat accurate translation. A trillion dollar solution in search of a problem.
That 'healthy market'?
Again, if it isn't profitable, they will bankrupt, if they aren't getting bankrupt, the government is saving them off, if that is the case, then the problem is another one and not AI itself. One related to the government and the economy.
They already charge what would give them the marginal needed to for their purposes. People use it because it has value for them.Can't wait for them to start charging what it actually costs so AI slop becomes unaffordable.
Your 'value' is not what other people think to be 'valuable'. And no amount of spiritual 'value' babble will change that.