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Dorothea SaloMicrosoft sure is saying the quiet part out loud.
Amplify this, Satya. ๐
embix@brezelradar I mean, markets can stay witless longer than I can stay solvent, but...
... yeah.
CM Thiede@brezelradar @dsalo Yeah, that's the problem. They've already tied everyone's futures into it, even though nobody asked them to do that. Its failure will mean catastrophe for a giant portion of the world. Now, he's telling everyone to go along, or they'll be responsible for people like himself being the only ones on earth left with any money.
Yora@cmthiede @brezelradar @dsalo It must fail. Better sooner than later. But it will not turn out better for anyone except the billionaire parasites if the world allows itself to be dragged further and further into dependency to these electronic shackles.
Piggleston Pecanpants@dsalo He's assuming he has social permission to use electricity for it.
@LilPecan I'm seeing a lot of localities rejecting data centers, which suggests NOPE, he doesn't.
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe.
Passwordsarehard4@passwordsarehard4 @paulk "tired but still moral" sure is a mood
@dsalo Tired too (after 48 years on the job and one more to go). Moral: always. And responsible. Hence no ai. I'm too lazy to check what it did and correct it and blargh. My own mind is much better.
SuperSpaceFan
Arcane Roops@dsalo Translation :
"It's not much use in general, so it doesn't get used much. Oh, and the economics are so fragile that if we don't advertise like mad everyone goes bust."
"It's not much use in general, so it doesn't get used much. Oh, and the economics are so fragile that if we don't advertise like mad everyone goes bust."
@arcaneoverflow Basically, yeah!
Poligofsky ๐จ๐ฆ .. ๐ซ๐คMoney *is* social permission. The money will keep flowing, until investors lose patience. For now, the general public seem unwilling to reject the cultural pillars which made this possible.
FediThing 
If he didn't have enough useful stuff to do with AI, why did he bet the company on it?
Why does he want to burn electricity on AI anyway? Surely MS could do something else like writing software or something?
@FediThing There are reasons I'm considering pursuing a Ph.D with a research agenda about hype.
I don't have a better answer than "hype + lemmingism + critical stock-price need for Something New To Hype."
@FediThing Because software corporations don't make products for customers. They make products for investors.
And investors tend to know nothing about software, so the best way to fluff them is with big sounding buzz words and a media campaign. If the product is total dogshit and all the money goes down the drain, that's a problem for the next quarter.
And investors tend to know nothing about software, so the best way to fluff them is with big sounding buzz words and a media campaign. If the product is total dogshit and all the money goes down the drain, that's a problem for the next quarter.
Yup, indeed. They just want to push it over the line where they can cash out, then they hop into their luxury escape pod and don't care if the company crashes and burns.
The decision makers have no connection to the organisations they run, no pride or honour in what they do. It's all about their bank balance at the time they leave, not what happens afterwards.
Not just software but western corporations in general, look at Boeing and their disintegrating planes after the company decided to become more about finance than engineering.
@FediThing It's what the system of stock companies is designed to select for. CEOs are employees of the shareholders and have no financial liability for any losses the company takes. They could only be held responsible for their actions if they commit a crime, but corrupt politicians who take their bribes make sure that almost nothing an CEO can do is considered illegal in a way that makes them personally responsible.
It's a system to make nobody accountable and put the burden on tax payers.
Artstories@dsalo Natural conclusion: Stop using AI altogether!
@art_histories I never started, thankfully.
@dsalo It's just nonsense. I tried it but every time I used it the outcome was very poor or completely false and caused more work than I had done it myself.
Intaglio Whitegraven@dsalo I wonder who gave them the impression that they had "social permission" in the first place. Perhaps it was all the investors / venture capitalists, because I doubt any sizable percentage of consumers did.
It feels like the AI companies and the investors are the parents in a household, making decisions about what to feed their children. And the children have to put up or shut up.
@Intaglio_Dragon Right on.
I do think that mainstream and tech media slobbering all over Sam and Satya and their ilk also manufactured an illusion of social permission.
@Intaglio_Dragon @dsalo They bribed officials to give them political permission.
But that can easily slip away if the wrath of the populace tips over.
But that can easily slip away if the wrath of the populace tips over.
Frigid Crystal Tormented WrathSo you'd think but when in the last 30 years has the political class given a single fuck what the peasants have to say?
@dsalo the reason normal people canโt find a use for A.I. is easy to understand, it wasnโt ever intended to be used by them. They thought it would actually work and they would not need normal people anymore. It wasnโt made to be used by us, it was made to be used instead of us.
@passwordsarehard4 Yep.
Which is why I'm PISSED THE FUCK OFF at Randi Weingartner for doing a deal with Microslop.
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panu@shadowdancer yeah, I pulled a lot out of it recently
Galbinus Caeli@dsalo I was going to compare generative AI to spray paint and graffiti, then I remembered that some graffiti is actually art.
Natsura 
Johanna Janiszewski@dsalo please this is satire, right?
@JohannaMakesGames Nope, Nadella's just that ๐ฉ-witted.
@dsalo oh by the blove of garlic bread, satire is truly dead ๐ญ
RiaResists@dsalo 99.9% of us never gave these big MFers permission.
I am like, so over it.
I am like, so over it.
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Nathan A. Stine@dsalo the CTO at my employer is very excited about using AI. When someone asked if we'd do anything to offset the carbon emissions, he basically said "not our problem."
SmutMagDotArt@dsalo Keep boycotting AI, people. If your employer wants to use it, refuse. We can and will take this horseshit down.
After my cognitive powers have been used for a few milliseconds without assistance I repeat
Satya Nadella can go wipe his backside with AI and all other microsoft products.
on top all the other hallucination and white fascist bias machines can close down immediately, the world will be better without them.
MandaAt least they're backwards admitting that this consumption beast doesn't do anything useful....
@lucyruthe EXACTLY.
swope@dsalo
Here's one of the problems with the vague name "AI". There are a lot of useful things being done with boring "AI" that uses machine learning in specific circumstances and aren't nearly as power hungry as LLM chat bots like Copilot.
Here's one of the problems with the vague name "AI". There are a lot of useful things being done with boring "AI" that uses machine learning in specific circumstances and aren't nearly as power hungry as LLM chat bots like Copilot.
@swope Yup, so they put it all under the same rhetorical umbrella so it's harder for folks to condemn the whole thing.
๐ฅ Mireille Sillander ๐ฅ@dsalo It's incredibly telling and even more sad if Nadella feels the AI really is amplifying his cognitive skills and this is the best it could do
Graeme ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ@dsalo I'd like to laugh, but....
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