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minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down2·11 hours agoThe AI push is really about buying up all the compute components to make independent, individual ownership impractical. Then we all have to buy walled garden dumb terminal tablets that rely on cloud services to function. They can watch, censor, and block anything they want. And we pay them for the privilege.
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 hours agoSo you are telling me they gobble up everything to build data centers not because of AI hype (like the next industrial revolution) but… to make it more expensive for us? Do I understand this correct?
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 hours agoI think a large part is that if you have enough compute you can now log and analyze proactively every person’s online speech and activities.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agothe funny part about their plan is that everything will be centralized. I wonder what the weakness of that strategy is? 🤔
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoCentralized systems are a failure point. Ask the Visagoths how well it worked.
The AI push is really about buying up all the compute components to make independent, individual ownership impractical.
Then we all have to buy walled garden dumb terminal tablets that rely on cloud services to function.
They can watch, censor, and block anything they want. And we pay them for the privilege.
So you are telling me they gobble up everything to build data centers not because of AI hype (like the next industrial revolution) but… to make it more expensive for us? Do I understand this correct?
I think a large part is that if you have enough compute you can now log and analyze proactively every person’s online speech and activities.
the funny part about their plan is that everything will be centralized.
I wonder what the weakness of that strategy is? 🤔
Centralized systems are a failure point. Ask the Visagoths how well it worked.