rivalMar 20

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116245654995340342

What are the chances of a massive use of "AI" in a paycheck-to-paycheck economy if the service ain't free?
What are the chances of "AI" not-being a bubble if it can't be massively monetized?
What are the chances of "AI" not-being shitified in order to monetize it then?
#ai #llm #capitalism #technology #questions

Show threadAKingsburyMar 20

@rival

I mean...depending on the subscription fee, that's an amazing deal. If you could get a brand-new house instantly on demand for, say, $50 a month...I wouldn't even need "unlimited requests" to take that deal. A brand-new house right now, heck, I'd pay $50 a month until my dying day just for that.

Show threadrival5d ago
@AlexanderKingsbury But we're not talking about a brand-new house for $50 a month...
Show threadAKingsbury5d ago

@rival

Well, the comic is talking about brand-new houses.For subscription. The price of which is not specified. So......it may very well be $50 a month.

Show threadrival5d ago
@AlexanderKingsbury I don't think $50 a month for a house made magically by LLMs seems like a realistic discussion...
Show threadAKingsbury5d ago

@rival

I don't think a discussion involving a magical talking bird that can build a house with a thought is particularly realistic, but here we are.

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@AlexanderKingsbury At this point I think there was a misunderstanding here, because I thought the comic as an illustration of the profitability limits and bubbling nature of all the "AI" offering. But thinking inside comic's fictional reality, I guess yes, a little subscription could be an option to the (magical) housing problem. But then, I doubt the amount would be $50 dollars a month...
Mar 29 at 1:10amWeb
Show threadAKingsbury5d ago

@rival

Be as doubtful as you like. I can think of more than a few modern things that are available for prices that, even a few years or decades ago, would have been considered absurdly cheap. I'm not even all that old, and I remember when people thought that video telephones weren't even technically feasible. Heck, plenty of people alive now remember a time before humans ever even went to space, and now you can have a doodad that talks straight TO space for a couple hundred bucks.

Show threadrival5d ago
@AlexanderKingsbury Land or housing are not comparable to those. You can't make land cheaper "modernizing it". In fact, the tendency is the oposite: privatization and concentration. Land is considered a speculative capital reservoir.
Show threadAKingsbury4d ago

@rival

Land and housing have undergone all sorts of innovations. Just look at, for example, skyscrapers, or apartment buildings. Look at Boston; much of the land there didn't exist a few centuries ago. Look at the artificial islands in the middle east. Look at cities like Las Vegas, huge bustling cities built where there was once only desert.

Show threadrival4d ago
@AlexanderKingsbury That's precisely speculative capital reservoir. Last bubble should have leave some serious understanding of the process and mechanisms. In the other hand, skyscrapers are an inhuman way of unsustainable life. The same goes for artificial islands.
Show threadAKingsbury4d ago

@rival

"an inhuman way of unsustainable life"? That's a new one. Thank you for that.

How many floor make a building "inhuman" and "unsustainable"? 5? 10? 50?

Show threadrival2d ago
@AlexanderKingsbury If you want to have a proper conversation be respectful. The trolling is an imbecile endeavor only available for stupid children.
Regards.
Show threadAKingsbury2d ago

@rival

So.....how many floors make a building "inhuman" and "unsustainable"? 5? 10? 50?