Headline sucks; it blames workers when this is a management problem.

I’d like to see fines that actually negatively impact bad actors vs the slap on the wrist they are.

They make far too much money to be ‘over staffed’. They are overcommitted to billionaire shareholders. They always blame a blameless entity for shitty actions. See ‘the economy’ etc. Might as well blame the weather.

They need to unionize if they want to see change

Mobility is not high when every other company in the market does this regularly. People that just started families, moved their lives, have healthcare needs will see significant negative impact. These actions are a direct transfer of wealth from working class people to already incomprehensibly wealthy shareholders. And what’s more the actions are designed to keep people happy with what they have and reduce wages and wage growth for those that aren’t impacted. Shareholders are incentivizing immoral acts against the working class and using tech corporations to do so.

That’s fair. I think they are trying to utilize EEE to replace search, content creation, and more - everything AI is being shoveled into. But the main goal is just to force utilization through any means necessary and establish a new market & sales model they are unable to define.

That’s ’embrace, extend, extinguish’ for you. Question is if there is a profitable model to come. The usual economies of scale don’t seem capable of adding up in this case. Even the maniacs on Wall Street are balking.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/

It could be, but it doesn’t look promising - and the fact that it’s pretty much impossible to know what the actual costs are is, in itself, very telling.

When you use these services, the company in question then pays for access to the AI models in question, either at a per-million-token rate to an AI lab, or (in the case of Anthropic and OpenAI) whatever cloud provider is renting them the GPUs to run the models. A token is basically ¾ of a word.

As a user, you do not experience token burn, just the process of inputs and outputs. AI labs obfuscate the cost of services by using “tokens” or “messages” or 5-hour-rate limits with percentage gauges, and you, as the user, do not really know how much any of it costs. On the back end, AI startups are annihilating cash, with up until recently Anthropic allowing you to burn upwards of $8 in compute for every dollar of your subscription. OpenAI allows you to do the same, though it’s hard to gauge by how much.

Certainly part of the sales pitch. But so far it turns out humans are more efficient (cost less). I think the appeal to companies is the control (and the cost while it’s so heavily subsidized by the industry pushing it). The appeal to the major AI investors and execs is to… privatize the profits and socialize the losses. They will golden parachute themselves and leave the people with their mess.

Except it’s not profitable at all. It’s a huge bubble waiting to collapse.

Yep, they’ll weaponize it to take jobs and then hit the public with the bill when the bubble bursts. Capitalism is both chilling and demoralizing.

Just more hype from a guy who can’t make a profit https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

Next up: Gaslighting!

Indeed. Can we trade the invaders for dancing bots? What a world…

Seems like the dev team has a good sense of humor!

Despite repeated polite requests to not ask us for specific feature ETAs, the questions kept coming. In an effort to try and curtail this, we toyed with setting a “minimum” date for the feature and simply doubling it every time the question was asked. This very quickly led to the date being after the predicted heat death of the universe. We fell back on a tried and tested response pioneered by id Software; DP Alt Mode will be done when it’s done.

Feature set seems like an improvement, honestly. In particular:

Game Center is also disabled.

Bs. This is a marketing campaign at best.

‘Trimmed’

Would be nice to stop using such sanitized language to describe how horrible and unjustifiable these actions are from unfathomably wealthy & tax evading corporations.

CachyOS is great! Fast & easy.

It’s the opposite. They are cowards. Any move to do the right thing makes you a target for oh dear leader (who is also a pedophile). So they ignore it because it’s more profitable to avoid falling out with the administration. The only value a corporation has is greed.