Every day, I grow more eager for the inevitable crash of the AI market. Sora getting killed seems like a good portent.
The endless promotion of AI by virtually all tech company CEOs and shareholders, to me, is the most definitive proof that the rich would rather burn it all down than give any compensation, respect and decency to the working class.
Thats the whole point. They are so immensely rich, they could fix most of the world’s and its people’s problems fairly quickly, and still be rich enough to continue to live in unbridled luxury and splendor, while the population would be mostly happy and content with the system. But apparently money is addictive and so they would rather ruin the world and societies by promoting a shift into fascism than give up even a sliver.
I liken it to the dragon sickness Thorin had, an all consuming greed because you can think of nothing else. Stunted mind syndrome?
It’s also like… When you can have anything in the world it stops having meaning. So you can realistically only crave power, and by pushing others towards shittier and more miserable lives you elevate yours - it’s the only way.
CPU manufacturers were getting jealous at the other hardware manufacturers claiming shortages in this artificial scarcity scenario.
Intel and AMD aren’t claiming shortages. They are switching what they are manufacturing. Companies downstream of them in the consumer space are reporting shortages.
AMD for sure is trying to manufacture mostly server GPUd for AI, but does Intel even have anything competitive in that space?
good thing none of us are panic buying or scalping overpriced hardware…
…right?
This is going exactly as planned by big tech.
They dont want you to own your own hardware. They dont want local storage. They want to control EVERYTHING.
When personal computing is expensive enough, they will offer remote access to their server space, where you rent some specs and the screen (your computer access) is projected to you via internet.
Then they’ll earn the subscription money, and they own every single log file and data on “your” computer.
As soon as this is the cheapest option by a margin, they WILL get costumers. No doubt. And it’s awful.
Jeff Bezos even said this publicly, that this is the goal.
There are more barriers to digital sovereignty every day.
My wife hit the 15GB Google limit last week. Holy shit.
Her phone storage was full, so:
- Photos were silently removed from the device and uploaded to Google Photos.
- Once it was full, it locked her out of Google services. It even locked her email and took forms offline.
- It then demanded payment to get access to her files.
Google Photos is ransomware by definition.
I ended up doing a takeout, and found that all the photos had the exif tags stripped and I had to re-merge them from a .json file that sat next to it. Otherwise they had no timestamp/location data and no other software would index it.
Fixing the mess required me to alter my photo import program (written in C) and use some scripts I found on github. It was a full weekend project.
I can see why a lot of people will just pay the ransom.
