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Entire industries cannibalizing one another to eliminate competition and their industry's ability and desire to make the products/services they existed for in the first place. TimeWarnerHBODiscoveryblahblah shelving projects for tax cheats, making lazy appeals to nostalgia for what the companies they destroyed once made, and cheap reality garbage instead of actual media comes to mind, but it's terminal capitalism, it's happening in every sector.
Then they lay off their workers cutting their workforce to the bone by activist shareholder demand, eliminating potential consumers of the economy.
Now they want to use AI to cut the bone.
The economy no longer has any interest in the human beings it was created as a lowly tool to serve. We're being cut out entirely, except the small class of private owners, of course.
AI could and should be used to free mankind from tedious labor, that's why such innovation should have come from well funded PUBLIC research our economy should have been oriented to feed for PUBLIC benefit.
Instead, like every other technology, it will be used as yet another cudgel against society. This civilization is dogshit.
Most of AI is open source, so everyone motivated enough can try it! It's public and anyone who has the will, can use it to benefit the public.
I do myself, on albeit 5 year old hardware that struggles on my home server, but with decent GPUs with decent amounts of Vram running in the thousands, it isn't accessible to most even with the inclination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2024/01/25/emergency-expense-savings-study/72356517007/
AI is open source, but running it is an expensive proposition, Raspberry Pis need not apply.
The owners can buy all they like without a thought though to use against us for their gain.
I’m running both image and text generative AIs on an 8 year old PC with a $250 nvidia 3060. There is some latency but it is very usable. I use them as the brains of a private discord bot. Granted, it’s not going to be enough to start a business but it has paid for the video card with image credits and donations.
So yeah, it can be expensive but it’s still reasonable to run it on budget/used hardware for personal or small scale implementations.