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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Firet sentence in the article

Social network MySpace is reportedly planning to make a comeback

No. Planning to make a comeback is not the same as making a comeback. You are making a comeback when lots of people are actually using your site.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Fun read! I think a closed fist with seven fingers would have been a better illustration tough...

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

if you're far enough to the right apparently everyone looks like a Marxist. Even Hitler was a National Socialist (Socialist!)

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that's so type inference can work by just omitting the type, instead of having to use "var" or "auto" in front of the variable name

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think the EU are just trying to get some of the money quickly before Google spends all of it on AI

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to be anti-AI, but... AI coding stats from a AI coding company are as trustworthy as studies from Marlboro on the health effects of smoking or from Volkswagen on car emissions.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, it would still make more sense than SpaceX + xAI. Unlike a data center, a Tesla did actually go to space

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

There's a financial bubble and a mental bubble. They are related and feed each other but they are not the same and might not blow up at the same time.

The Market, according to the article, isn't losing its faith in AI as the Ultimate Technology (the mental bubble or "AI psychosis"). It's just questioning its belief that one or two companies might be able to squeeze massive profits out of it (the financial bubble).

Investors thought one AI winner would emerge relatively quickly, a new SuperGoogle or HyperAmazon that would make all the money in the world by providing access to AI to every other company. The AI winner would then gleefully enshittify their product while making it more expensive over time, eventually turning huge profits (even including the Trillions of investment spent to get there).

Now, with multiple companies that are offering an almost equivalent product and are forced to compete on price while already bleeding billions every quarter, everyone might just run out of money before the winner is declared. Not a scenario many are willing to invest in.

But the idea that AI can do everyone's job or give anyone 100x superpowers will still be out there. And all the CEOs and CTOs who thought they would look like thought leaders if they bet everything on AI will not easily change their minds all at once. They will still be easy marks for the next snake oil salesman, selling them a product based on cheap, less powerful models or whatever they can insist can still perform the 100x miracle at an actually bearable cost.

Some might actually be useful products, it's just that if the mental bubble, overinflating what AI can do doesn't blow, they can still be sold way above their actual worth.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

they are hiring more, so they can reach their layoff targets

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by [Musk's] “High Demand” for more money

FTFY

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He inhabits a 80-year-old, badly abused and decomposing body and he doesn't care about anybody else including his own family. "Sustainable" is probably not what he's going for at this point (if it ever was).

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