Opened inkscape for the first time and put together something now that these ai companies are just flat out saying that we don’t deserve ram.
Opened inkscape for the first time and put together something now that these ai companies are just flat out saying that we don’t deserve ram.
Where are they gonna get the money to pay for it tho?
By raising prices On groceries, rent, insurance, medical costs, etc. etc. etc.
They don’t get money from those things tho
They just burn money, they literally can’t make any
Investment firms do, which are the ones giving them money.
In effect, yes, that is how it works and they do get money from it.
Investment firms like returns
They’re just starting to realize they’ll never see one from this, and once it’s apparent to enough of them, the spigot is gonna close
Investment firms create returns through market manipulation.
Thats all these AI firms are to them. The product itself is irrelevant. A funding round increases speculation.
They make money on it going up, and they make money on it going down. Don’t expect them to stop shoveling money in just because its “unprofitable” for the company they are investing in.
The stock valuation is the only profit they need.
They only make money on it going down if they get the right valuation and find a big enough sucker to buy their shares
Something they have historically been extremely good at, yes.
Pershing Square in 2020 is the most recent one I can think of. In terms of industries you’ve got the obvious subprime market example, the telecom industry in the late 90s, and probably the best example of an entirely fake industry - forestry/reverse mergers about 15 years ago with Chinese Forestry companies that were basically complete fabrications.
This is what they do.
Edit: typo, should have been 15 not 25.
The subprime mortgage shit was only profitable because they got bailed out by the government tho
Hopefully it doesn’t happen again, but if it does, the difference is that AI companies, if bailed out directly, would immediately lose all of the bailout money. If the banks got bailed out, I doubt they would give any more money to the AI people
Why does it need to be profitable to be funded and used by the government as a weapon? Allowing people to use it is literally giving the government access to see everything, from systems to thoughts.
So, I’d say it’s profitable af.
Someone would still need to pay for it, regardless of how useful it is.
Useful is not the same thing as profitable.
AI is not being used as a weapon, it is being used as an accountability sink for the people using the weapons. Also useful, but not profitable.
If you don’t think AI is being used as a weapon, you’re in on it.
I think we have a disagreement about what counts as a weapon.
The missles that the US military willfully deployed to triple tap the children’s school in Iran were weapons. The AI “Targeting systems” that told them that children’s school was a valid target is not a “weapon” in the sense that it doesn’t do anything other than identify “targets”.
The purpose of this is to allow the user to knowingly commit war crimes, while being able to put the accountability for target acquisition onto the AI.
Israel uses it in the same way to prosecute their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.
Do you know of an alternate way in which the AI is being used as a weapon? I haven’t heard of one, but i would be interested to learn new information.
(To be clear, I am in no way pro-AI, and i do not think the way that it is being used in war is acceptable. I just don’t think an LLM constitutes a weapon in and of itself)
The weapon is ai being used to attack in a cyber war… or locally in silencing disobedience. Weapons don’t always have to blow up.
They can use them to hack, yeah, thats fair.
What do you mean by “locally in silencing disobedience”?
Bullets are weapons, guns are not weapons.
Thats not a great analogy
A gun doesn’t obfuscate your accountability
It would be more accurate of my argument to say “carbombs are weapons, cars are not weapons”
Neither of those analogies cover the element of obfuscating accountability tho, which again, is what they are using the AI to do.
You do not need AI to blow up a children’s school.
You use the AI so you can say “oops, i didn’t mean to triple tap that children’s school, the computer told me it was terrorists”