Especially when it's the majority of all data center buildout (if these companies had their way, the amount would be higher), the GPUs inside them presently can't be repurposed if demand doesn't catch up (or if they just depreciate), and nobody knows how to make these profitable
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By design, you can't send Mozilla money for Firefox development. It all goes into AI and venture capital grants and whatever else isn't the browser.
Sounds like the Mozilla CEO has joined the AI evangelism war on the side of the evangelists.
“I don't want seven AGIs, one for every single one of the big companies. I want seven billion AGIs,” Krikorian says, referring to artificial general intelligence. “I want us to each have an AGI that's truly on our side, not on someone else's side.”
No wonder he's doing Star Wars comparisons, because this is a fantasy thing that the world's billionaires can't figure out how to build.
The report contains clues about how Mozilla might be planning to sustain itself if the revenue streams from Firefox dry up. “You shouldn't be surprised if in a few months you see that we've released our own harness,” Krikorian tells TIME.
Because there aren't enough of those, and because Mozilla will definitely entice people to pay money to them because... Why?
In February at the India AI Summit, [Current AI] teamed up with Bhashini, the Indian government’s AI language division....
Current AI operates as a “public-private partnership” bringing together governments , companies, and philanthropies to fund public interest tech, she told TechCrunch. The French government seeded Current AI with $100 million , joined by the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, DeepMind, and Salesforce — bringing total committed funding to $400 million. “They’re not investors; they’re funders,” Bdeir said.
Great, now taxpayers are being forced to contribute to AI development.
Earlier this month in Geneva, Current launched Alpha Chat, an open-source chatbot assembled in seven weeks by a coalition of ten organizations, including Hugging Face, Mozilla, and MIT Media Lab.
Nice to see Mozilla is spending donation money responsibly.
Worth noting that Alpha Chat relies on data sets owned by Common Crawl (via Fineweb2 on Kili, via Apertus). Common Crawl got caught for deceptive data scraping practices in 2025.
Ethics!
Warnings about it being “early days” and “hallucinations” both anthropomorphise the bot and provide ready-made excuses for when one of its constant failures are noticed.
Three years later and the "early days" routine is still going strong. Who would have thought?
Same Apple and Google who say we aren't safe unless we let them choose which apps are on our phones?
Yes, because AI boosters don't themselves deal in facts. It's a religiosity.
If you want statistics about how AI only is losing companies money, or how the finances don't add up, there are articles for that too.
Because money only listens to money. Individual artists will never have the power to stand up to the corporations that are taking their stuff.
Kind of shocking the numbers above don't say anything about viewership at all, really. Just that the titles exist somewhere.
But Facedeer is a notorious troll, so his big "gotcha" moment is apparently that people can't tell or enjoy this stuff. I doubt it. Netflix trash definitely includes $200 million blockbuster flops that nobody knows about (have you or most movie fans ever heard of Fountain of Youth?), that are getting churned out from the back catalog of Skydance, owned by the son of surveillance king Larry Ellison.
If nobody wants a Guy Ritchie heist blockbuster with John Krasinski and two Star Wars alums including Natalie Portman, who's to say they "want" anything worse from Netflix?
On several occasions, we’ve been exposed to folks that have been sort of lukewarm on our main offerings, but they really, really wanted to use AI to perform a natural language query on their data. And we thought “Okay, if you really want to see it, maybe we can caveat this appropriately and show you what it might look like.”
This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands into their own chests, and presented their still-beating credit cards to us in grim supplication.
The writing here (and everywhere) is phenomenal, and this section echoes something I've seen Cal Newport say before, something along the lines that somebody with no technical knowledge sees one neat trick and suddenly assumes AI will turn into a superintelligence deity.
Facedeer is a bad faith troll and AI evangelist, in case anybody is wondering why he's pretending to care about accessibility.
Ironically, the people trying to make this into law are contemptible based on their self ascribed identity of pushing for the law.