• theherk@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Pretty sure wealthy scumbags have been centralizing production and distribution to jack prices for many more years than this ai boom.

  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    The answer lies in the stupid shit economic, social, and political systems which allowed AI to become what it is rather than what it could have been. Not just AI.

  • Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app
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    3 months ago

    The answer is found in capitalism. Why are gamers, who have continually been fucked by capitalism, so blind at seeing the obvious. '80s game crash: capitalism. Day one DLC: capitalism. Micro transactions: capitalism. All the hardware being hoovered up, so software costs more at every level, increasing prices for both hardware and software: capitalism.

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      3 months ago

      My toast falling onto the carpet with the jelly side first? Capitalism.

      Joke aside, yes. But this time it’s a clear enemy called AI. So people have something to blame, while evading the real culprit.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah. This AI boom barely created any new problems. It mostly just enlarged, or sped up the rate of problems that already existed, a bit like a catalyst.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Unless it’s Kojima, Larian, or From Software, I stick to very affordable indies. Gaming isn’t expensive when you avoid the big corporate grifters.

  • VampirePenguin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    When these data centers go bust, there’ll be a flood of hardware to the used market which will crater demand on new stuff. These companies couldn’t shoot themselves in the foot harder.