• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      Orrrrrrrr fuck the American AI investor bubble. Fuck the American tech tariffs. You know what? Just fuck the USA.

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          Nah. Fuck IP raiders. There’s nothing wrong with GAN. There’s nothing wrong with LLM. There’s nothing wrong with gradient descent. There’s nothing wrong with diffusion models. There’s nothing wrong with markov chains, with expert systems, with fuzzy logic, with PROLOG. Not on a moral or ethical level, for certain.

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              Just, like, all of it. No more practicing chess against a computer. No more computer vision. No more single player Street Fighter. Fuck it all. It’s inherently evil, we’ve decided for some reason. Clearly a nuanced and well researched position.

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                Ok firebrand. We all know what we mean by AI when it is spoken in conversation. It is shorthand for generative AI. If you want to be patronizing and pedantic, that’s on you. We normal folks use shorthand and understand each other. Fuck AI.

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                  That’s why I initially brought up all those forms of AI that are perfectly fucking fine. But you’re like, NOPE. So don’t throw that in MY face. Perhaps you didn’t understand what I was saying. But you were STILL like, NOPE. Which leads me to believe YOU don’t even know what you mean when you say, “AI”. “Generative AI” isn’t a specific thing. It’s any software that outputs something a human might consume as content. You just mean, “bad shit I don’t understand” I suppose.

                  The problem is not the technology, it is that entrenched capitalists are leveraging their wealth and power to steal culture from all of us, and cynical investors engaging in the largest pump and dump in history. And if you can’t make that distinction, your voice doesn’t have a damn thing to contribute to this conversation other than “Naw, fuck AI.”

                  I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of moral panics and it’s not okay. Naw, fuck pearl clutchers.

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                I get you. I think the sentiment is generally an exaggerated “Fuck Big Tech”.

                Similar to how crypto bros ruined cryptocoins but people say “Fuck Bitcoin”.

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                Anti-ai bots are literally bots (ironic) or otherwise children/idiots who think in memes instead of rationally.

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      Hey when it pops, there may be a surplus of needlessly powerful but battered graphics cards that can’t really be used for crypto and other components.

      Or just more e-waste destine to form a thin sedimentary layer in 10,000 years

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    We’re going to go back to covid times when it was cheaper up buy a computer with the graphics card in it than to buy the graphics card out right, but now with ram.

    I’m getting so burnt out with the blatant corruption and data centers sucking up all the hardware. You know at the end of the day, all these companies are boasting record profits.

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      That’s the thing, they’re absolutely not. Nearly all AI implementation fails and returns on investment are minimal, if they exist at all. They’re all part of a big gamble.

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        Yup. Like I just grabbed a nice laptop for $150 that was $1200 in 2025 because Microsoft dictated that every computer is obsolete to their OS.

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        Much like RAM, around 90% of Nvidia’s hardware in 2025 is for data centers. Unfortunately it’s mostly specialized hardware that can’t be used in consumer computers.

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        I was running 16 for years and only recently upgraded when I hit a wall with modern games. I think the majority of games are fine with 16.

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        I had to Google hypervisor before I could answer. No, I’m not running any virtual machines on my computer. It’s pretty much just a media machine: games, movies, music, websites, etc.

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            Thanks for saying so! A lot of people will tell gamers that they need 64 or even 96 so it’s difficult to know what’s actually true.

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              I have a friend that runs 128g of RAM. He uses the computer almost entirely for Reddit and stock tracking

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    Any bets on the DRAM makers getting so excited over this and having felt left out of the stupid graphics card pricing, that they put the world into a perpetual DRAM shortage and this is just the new norm.

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    At first I was thinking, “WTF, why did the prices shoot up so high?” And then I looked up how much I spent on 32GB of RAM rated for the same speeds back in 2022: Three Hundred Fucking Dollars. The price didn’t shoot up; it never went down!

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      For larger RAM chips if went up - sometimes more than double - in half a year. I can literally look at the RAM I purchased in June and it’s more than twice that price now

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      Sorry, but that would require actual R&D and problem solving alongside jargon that your PM didn’t learn in their MBA program.

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        “The business case doesn’t add sufficient value for the customer. We need to prioritize creating a lickable UI.”

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    Ah crap. Since months I was thinking of adding more RAM. My current 32gb is sufficient and not low at all. But those stuck with 16gb need to wait longer now. The prices will come down, right? Right?