The AI boom has turned the standard profit margin model on its head, according to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok—and it’s making the industry’s growth unsustainable.
Wait till they ruin the internet, make users unable of any meaningful general purpose computation on their own hardware, then everybody has to beg them for computing and knowledge.
this is bigger than a few AI companies. This is the scheme of global governments moving towards full totalitarianism and control.
Call me paranoid but I highly believe this is the route we’re at.
I think we are long past that by now. “Enshitification” and “Capitalist Slop”, was already a huge thing before these ‘new’ ***holes came about. Capitalist slop is the pre-cursor for “AI-slop”, and is basically to throw literal shit on the market(wall) and see if it sticks. My personal view is that 99.99% of all internet content is Cap-Slop that shouldn’t/wouldn’t be there in a natural society.
full totalitarianism and control.
That was always the end-state of Capitalism, “Fascism” is basically when govs are taken over by private Capitalist sh*tters. US have been an Oligarchy for longer than anyone alive today, and ‘Democracy’ were never there.
Everything is going as the anti-capitalists predicted and expected…
Wait till they ruin the internet, make users unable of any meaningful general purpose computation on their own hardware, then everybody has to beg them for computing and knowledge.
this is bigger than a few AI companies. This is the scheme of global governments moving towards full totalitarianism and control.
Call me paranoid but I highly believe this is the route we’re at.
I think we are long past that by now. “Enshitification” and “Capitalist Slop”, was already a huge thing before these ‘new’ ***holes came about. Capitalist slop is the pre-cursor for “AI-slop”, and is basically to throw literal shit on the market(wall) and see if it sticks. My personal view is that 99.99% of all internet content is Cap-Slop that shouldn’t/wouldn’t be there in a natural society.
That was always the end-state of Capitalism, “Fascism” is basically when govs are taken over by private Capitalist sh*tters. US have been an Oligarchy for longer than anyone alive today, and ‘Democracy’ were never there.
Everything is going as the anti-capitalists predicted and expected…
Some other news in the past week was about scrappers making like 90% of internet traffic.
scrappers an bots.
I feel like an idiot not catching it the first time I heard about the GPU crunch, but yes.