• LittleFellaNamedBoof [any]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    I think AI companies legitimately think that people will continue to use their AI stuff when it costs this much. They don’t realize that a ton of the current AI usage is just bored/lonely people using it a ton because they don’t have anything else to do. They might pay some to keep using it if they get addicted to it, but they aren’t going to pay anywhere near what these companies think. And thats what they plan their investment into data centers around. It’s pretty dumb.

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      They’re just marketing to each other now. clown-to-clown-communication clown-to-clown-conversation

      Their vision is AI will gernerate and demand their own tokens. AI prompting AI inserted into the MIC machine with drone swarms and automated factories. What could go wrong?

      Certainly an AI trading bot in order to maximize profits because tha5 is what it was taught to do consequences be damned, wouldn’t task and order a physical body to Ultron themselves into. That would be implausible inconceivable

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        I’m not worried about AI takeover at all honestly. These LLMs are not intelligent and are not something that would ever be a like terminator threat imo. But they are an economic threat. These companies are basically lighting trillions of dollars on fire and thinking its going to make a profit somehow. Then its going to destroy entire local economies and environments when they build these huge things, and abandon them there. The treasury markets will crash due to the Iran war Trump started too and interest rates will rise causing a broad liquidity crisis and a global depression. The 2000s and the 1900s are rhyming far too much for my liking.

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          i’m worried about ai warfare where vibes based classifier built out by coked out iof nazi decides that graph of my social connections looks like hezbollah operative and drone strikes me by my phone location in 1h but ymmv.

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            I feel like its gonna be that one scene from that marvel movie where the evil people are like “We have identified our targets” and then it shows a map where its like every single person who exists lol. I think it was the captain america one with the giant flying aircraft carriers.

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              kind of, the problem is general person will trust it for some reason, while carpet bombing a city looks bad, leveling a city with precise munitions and telling each time “ai said so” looks like responsible moral warfare as evidenced by entity behavior

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                I really don’t think it matters what the general person in the west thinks lol. It’s never mattered before. It’s not like the US hasn’t killed millions of innocent people over the last few decades. The only thing thats going to stop that is when other countries can fight back. Like Iran is now. There is no timeline where the typical American rises up and demands their government stops murdering people in the numbers needed to actually force a change.

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                  I agree it’s unlikely any time soon. but you really think there’s no limit to how bad US material conditions can get and still no meaningful pushback?

                  Maybe by that time there won’t be anything we can call an ““American government”” so you win again

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                    Yes. The Imperial core will never pursue peace. It will never voluntarily end imperialism. The US material conditions worsening will only accelerate its decline into fascism. Socialism will not grow from the poisoned soil of the imperial core. It will grow from the global south and eventually spread into the remains of the core after it has collapsed.

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                  (a) military loves ai

                  (b) public loves military

                  © if some competently speaking colin powell 2.0 says we identified 10000 targets and eliminated them, 80% of usa will clap like seals

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            Yeah but that’s not so much the LLM being the threat as the idiot human being the threat. It would be no different then like me putting a cat in the same room as the big red button. When it steps on it and launches nukes its not really the cat doing it. It’s the fact that I was an absolute moron who locked a cat in that room for some reason. And idiot humans have always been the main threat when it comes to nukes.

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      also the idea that the only reason you didn’t make an app is because you didn’t have the money for programmer and a graphic designer. now you get everything with a $20/month plan! and even if that promise materialized to reality for one person, you still have a worse version of the original problem: no matter what you want to do, 1000s of people with 1000x more money than you either already did your app idea, or are going to instantly clone your app idea and destroy your market share with their advertising budgets.

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        No no. You don’t understand. I am simply the smartest and most creative person ever and thats why I need an AI to do all the actual work for me? But my ideas are top notch. Nobody else could possibly do what I made this AI do. My app that tracks how thoroughly you wipe your ass day to day is entirely original. Wiplr is the next big thing I swear! /s

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        I don’t know why you losers need 30 people to run a website I just created an updated version of our banking app in Claude yesterday afternoon and it works perfectly. Ship it and let’s have a meeting on Friday.