More and more mainstream analysts are identifying the coming AI crash, which is a good indication that it will happen soon.

So, what happens to all the data centers? They are already built but probably very expensive to maintain. Will many of them just be abandoned? Bought up by cloud computing companies? Scammers? Crypto miners? Can they be parted out and sold off piecemeal?

Will they be put to some productive use, or just become massive e-waste sites left to the locals to deal with?

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    Survielllance centers for all the data being stolen off your smartphone and flock cameras.

    If anyone thinks I’m wrong, they’re completely blind to what’s going on and their future plan.

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      Survielllance centers for all the data being stolen off your smartphone and flock cameras.

      Yes, and other sources. That’s my theory as to why most of them are being built in the first place, regardless of AI.

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        I dont believe its a theory. Its absolute fact. Why else would they be requiring cameras in all cars next year, and putting flock cameras all over every city? That surveillance data needs to be stored and sorted through. This is the real reason for the massive push of data centers and bribery of politicians.

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      If anyone thinks I’m wrong, they’re completely blind to what’s going on and their future plan.

      But the hallucination problem means that everyone will end up with a meaningless list of AI hallucinated “prior offenses” that could be used to arrest, detain and disappear literally anyone, based on mismatched unaudited surveillance footage of completely different people.

      I’m thankful that no powerful persons today want a world where they can do that to anyone they find inconvenient.

      It would be genuinely alarming if we had any total assholes out there with wealth or power or both.

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        What the LLMs can do reasonably well though is determine the political leanings of people’s typed messages, so it can sort people into lists of potential dissidents based on their risk to the state, then they can have the human agents do the framing for arrest. The AI is probably terrible at doing that consistently too, but they don’t have the personnel to do it by hand and the false positives still work to instill the fear of it.