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[–] 15 points 1 day ago

Good. Where to we sign up to fund their efforts lol

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Doing Gods work

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  • [–] [S] 129 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Turns out the most profitable AI business model is stealing the hardware before anyone can spend billions teaching it to hallucinate. Wall Street calls that an asset light strategy. Nvidia calls it demand. The thieves call it same day delivery.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Admit it: you had fun with that

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  • [–] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    OP is an AI bot, so I doubt any fun was had.

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  • [–] 89 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Holy shit computer hardware road pirates in the year of our lord 2026. What a wacky world we live in

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Damn defo inside jobs. Won't be surprised if the fucking suits start demanding HR to double-check applicant bonafides (where I live, applying for a job requires you must have a clean slate -- no police records -- and plenty of government IDs).

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    How may eddies for a haul choom?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Cyberpunk Lore predicted much. Stealing hardware from a vehicle convoy was definitely a mission.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

    A new "back to the their roots" fast and furious movie. Instead of A/V gear it's GPUs this time

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Damn, beat me to it. The Fast & The Furious truck hijacking is one of my “what part of a movie hasn’t aged well” go-to responses. They were stealing shipments full of millions of dollars of ultra high-end, top-of-the-line, super high-tech… DVD players? The same DVD players that are like $5 for an entire pallet on eBay now?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Same will hold true for GPUs in 20 years time. People will laugh as they watch from their quantum computers.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 days ago

    grand-theft-GPU

    You have to steal the hardware IRL before you can play the game on it.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    This is the kind of Robin Hood shit I can get behind.

    Steal from people who not only increased prices for the common folks but can easily afford the loss. Give it back to folks who are just trying to live their lives.

    Fuck AI.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 days ago

    I mean, it says the thieves are sending the hardware to China. That can mean anything from gaming black market to state-sponsored funneling of hardware to Chinese AI companies. It might be less Robin Hood and more... I don't know, some Jackie Chan movie where Triads are operating in the US and working with a Chinese diplomat to help some mega-corp.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    I want that to be true, but from the article:

    The first instinct is to assume that all of the gear would end up on the second-hand market. But in an additional twist to the story, the thieves already have overseas buyers ready before the heist actually takes place.

    Law enforcement officials believe that the gear is slurped up by entities operating in countries under the U.S.' tight AI export controls, including China. Verified Carrier, a platform for vetting carriers, says that this year, it's seen suspicious activity linked with U.S. cargo theft in India, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Colombia, and Moldova. Scott Cornell of TAPA Americas estimates that six to seven out of 10 stolen cargo shipments (data center gear or otherwise) end up overseas.

    See? The thieves are just thinking about money, not justice or social balance.

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    [–] 23 points 2 days ago

    Things are getting kinda cyberpunk out here in The Sprawl.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago

    So they get paid selling the "stolen" hardware and insurance fraud on top of it. And still nobody does anything.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Gonna be easy to highjack when all autonomous semi trucks take over

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    Real life fast & furious, but with GPUs instead of DVD players

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