Th4tGuyII

Would be real good if the big old bubble could burst soon like it has in China. Cost of living is fucked either way, so might as well take Sam Altman and Co. along for the ride

Why is AI development continuing?

There is demand, but that demand only exists because consumers aren’t being exposed to the actual price of AI. It’s all being subsidised by investor hype.

Not one of the frontier AI companies have made a profit as of today, not a single one..

The only ones making profit are those exploiting the subsidised pricing for business (or to pull huge scams) and the guys selling the shovels components for data-centres, like Nvidea - who are desperate to keep the investor money flowing, to the point that they themselves are pouring some profits into their own AI company customers in the unofficially dubbed great AI Investor circle-jerk.

… And though this Bloomberg report was from January 2026, if you look hard enough you’ll notice this circular financing hasn’t stopped, in-fact Nvidea even acknowledged this circular fimancing themselves not even two months ago.

If the only way this keeps going is propping up the industry with investor money and circular financing, then when one of those eventually give and the public are exposed to the true price of AI - what happens then?

A bit into conspiracy territory now, but it’s what has me suspecting that a lot of the news we hear about AI going rogue and what-not isn’t as accidental as it seems. Any publicity is good publicity and keeps AI on the forefront of investors minds.

Make it a legal requirement for any indefinite revokable license product on sale to be sold as “indefinitely licensing”. Any term implying irevokable ownership (I.e. buying, purchasing) would be illegal to use.

It would wisen a lot of people up very quickly to what’s essentially a long-play con being pulled on them constantly, especially as some games companies *cough* Sony *cough* are looking to force digital-only ecosystems.

… And if being forced to use that term makes the companies doing this squeemish, well they could always just stop selling revokable licenses.

Honestly I get you, I hate the world GenAI is making… but you can’t control what your partner does. You’ve told her your stance on AI, and that you don’t like how dependent she is on it - but it’s her decision and responsibility as to whether she acts on what you’ve said.

If her rampant AI use is a deal-breaker to you, then act on that. Otherwise, if she refuses to stop - then it’ll have to be something to disagree on. Draw the line on things you do together.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the biggest flaw in the UK’s energy market, and what makes it have the most expensive electricity in Europe despite having one of the highest productions of renewable electricity in Europe - is the fact that the price of electricity from all sources is pegged to the most expensive, Gas and Oil.

Unpegging renewable electricity prices from gas and oil would definitely cause some chaos at first, but ultimately would force electricity prices down in-line with the rest of Europe.

Yeah. Why do I get a feeling that the fixee bug was the saving conversations part and not the non-consensual eavesdropping.

Easiest way to not have your glasses recording everything you do is weirdly enough not to have glasses that record everything you do. Weird suggestion I know, but 100% foolproof

Those viewpoints are not mutually exclusive…

You can point out the need for better AI regulations to hold companies liable for when their AIs “go rogue” AND want better laws for going after people who misuse AI tools for harmful/malicious purposes.

“AI is going to kill us all…”

“… But we’re still gonna keep pushing the envelope cause if we don’t make AM, somebody else will”

Honestly. Bet. All AI evangelists should start chain smoking three packs a day to really show their confidence in AI curing smoking related diseases!

Oops, you’re right, got my words mixed up haha

Yeah, it’s wild that the bulk result of all the droplets in a system individually refracting the White light is essentially a uniform macroscopic refraction as though it had gone through some kind of super droplet.
Physics does some cool stuff sometimes!

Edit: Refraction not defraction

Honestly its kinda messed up how AI companies have managed to squirrel away from possibly the single biggest copyright infringement scandel in history, yet the Internet Archive gets attacked every time to so much as tries to preserve and make information available to people.

Perhaps the biggest fundamental problem with using AI like this - how can you know the programs it generates are truly clean-room replicas? Can you guarantee Anthropic never trained their AI on Adobe’s suite or any of Adobe’s code?

Also, if you’re desperate to cut Adobe out of your life, why not use the open source tools that already exist and aren’t at risk of being sued out of existence by Adobe