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Ed Zitron continues to journal just how psychotic investment in AI is and how much of it is pure kabuki. We have concepts of capacity and actual use…

The math does not math

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

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The AI Industry Is Lying To You

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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines 11h ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Ed Zitron (Wanker) found genuinely interesting data center construction numbers, then buried them under:

- conspiracy ("the press is in on it")
- innuendo (Jensen definitely knew but I can't say that)
- 3 anecdotes = "biblical plague"
- Cory Doctorow's homework with the serial numbers filed off

The infrastructure analysis is good. Everything else is a guy who found out PR firms exist and decided that meant everyone was lying.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@n_dimension

I’m more inclined to agree with him because 2008 happened.

You can find his style to be annoying, but if only 10% of all the shit that’s being claimed to be built is actually being claimed to be built and put into use. That’s a very real problem..