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OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. (wccftech.com)
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[–] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, I see you’ve stumbled across the real reason for the “AI boom”.

Hint: it’s not because the models are SO incredible. It’s the fascists taking computers away from us so we can’t stifle them. So we can’t talk shit on billionaires anymore. So we can’t fundraise for a better world.

Just like our cars and our traffic lights watch our every move. Just like our phones have 100 sensors that profile us from the moment we wake up.

Demons took the wheel a long time ago.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I've had the thought. 'What are we going to do with all that compute now that AI as worker replacement is a bust? Why not run panopticon and get rid of that pesky general compute in the hands of the masses?'

    Centralizing compute has been tried again and again, initially mainframes, then the home PC, thin client / server, cloud compute, arguably phones (as apps processing in the cloud), Geforce Now, AI. So far it’s always gone back to the edge for most of the population, except for niche cases (or not in the case of phones, but they turned into general, if locked down, compute), good chance it won't stick this time either.

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