javiJun 11, 2024
The AI industry is a grift so big that it's really hard to explain it to people not familiar with the tech industry.

Yes, Google is perfectly aware their AI-powered search is way worse than their "classic" mode.

Yes, Apple knows their integration with chatGPT is flaky and ads nothing useful to their products. And

They.

Don't.

Care.

Because the goal is not making their products better, the goal is to ride the hype wave so the investors are happy and their stock price keeps growing.

That's almost entirely what's powering the AI industry.

It's a multibillon dollar grift. One so big and so obvious that most people think they have to be missing something, that they don't understand something that makes everything to make it makes sense as a business.

No. That's everything. It's pure snake oil selling.
Show threadNazaniJun 12, 2024
@javi I thought crypto was a bubble & would be gone by now, yet here we are. 🤷‍♀️
Show threadCassandrichJun 12, 2024
@Nazani @javi This is crypto rebranded. They even get to reuse the same hardware (GPUs) and the main pusher (nvidia) gets to keep selling them.
Show threadOctorineJun 15, 2024

@dalias @Nazani @javi My personal conspiracy theory about all of this is that that's the whole point.

A lot of people bought Nvidia stock during the nft bubble and then had to create the ai bubble to keep the stock price up long enough for them to sell out. Only now the ai bubble looks like it has legs, so some of them decided to stay in.

Show threadCassandrichJun 15, 2024
@octorine @Nazani @javi Yep. We could really use some direct economic action against nvidia...
Show threadCassandrich
@octorine @Nazani @javi The fucking end of the world is going to be thanks to fucking AAA gaming asshats who couldn't be content with the perfectly good 3D we had with software rendering in 1999.
Jun 15, 2024 at 4:34pmWeb
Show threadPeter AshfordJun 15, 2024
@dalias @octorine @Nazani @javi those AAA gaming asshats can't buy Nvidia GPUs at the top end because they're all being purchased by other big players in the the tech industry. People who just want to play games aren't the reason Nvidia is suddenly one of the most valuable companies in the world
Show threadCassandrichJun 15, 2024
@kaffiene @octorine @Nazani @javi I mean they're what launched nvidia into existence 20-some years ago.
Show threadPeter AshfordJun 15, 2024
@dalias @octorine @Nazani @javi Ah sorry, they're responsible for Nvidia in the first place. Yeah, that's true., but also nvidia is just an enabling technology for AI. You could just as easily blame IBM for creating the PC. What nvidia were setting out to do was not all *this*
Show threadCassandrichJun 15, 2024
@kaffiene @octorine @Nazani @javi Yeah, I meant it more as an unintended consequences shitpost.
Show threadzeruchJun 20, 2024
@kaffiene @dalias @octorine @Nazani @javi blaming gamers for this debacle is like blaming people who use plastic straws for climate change. At some minute level, sure they are a contributing factor, but in no way are they moving the needle compared to the big players really pushing and expanding the problem.