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      I was just thinking the same. Most of what’s bad about AI just leads back to the wealthy elite being greedy hoarders.

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        Yup. AI is just the logical conclusion of unregulated capitalism. When you can’t exploit the workers any further, you replace them with machines.

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    I don’t think there is any wealth there, just undeserved trust that allows them to raise money through debt.

    If you seize that, then the debtors will come calling for higher risk premium and the venture implodes - sooner than they otherwise would.

    So maybe it is a good idea anyway.

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      “5 more years, bro. I know I know, just 5 MORE years bro and we’ll have AGI on the moon bro, no idea how to monetize it but just 5 additional years bro!”

      How the heck does this keep generating cash flow? Are investors really this stupid?

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    What wealth? The AI industry is probably the most debt-laden venture in the entire history of currency, and has failed spectacularly and repeatedly to demonstrate any viable path to profitability. There’s no wealth to take, and there never will be.

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      Scrap the shit for parts or raw materials then. I’ll take $5 and the death of AI data centers any day.

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        I want the billionaires involved to be disgraced and stripped of their ill-gotten gains as well. Id est, accountability and justice.

        If not that, 🪟🔪⚜️ and seizure of the assets, placed in the national treasury and used to fund social programs.

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      probably the most debt-laden venture in the entire history of currency

      So our currency is working exactly as intended! :-P

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      Should probably just license them. They can pay for the license. $100 million/month, $1.19 billion if they get the whole year.

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    If the RIAA could get millions from kids downloading songs on Napster, wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect that AI companies pay for the intellectual property that they have stolen from anyone who has ever posted anything on the internet?

    Maybe AI companies can exist as long as they fund universal basic income.

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      Maybe AI companies can exist as long as they fund universal basic income.

      That means they would need actually make money instead of just shuffling loans around. It’s a shell game, and the public is going to be left with empty pockets.

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    It’s a trap. Open source / weight models will become mandated to pay for use locally. So we won’t be able to use local models for our own purposes and gain, while the big corporations simply pay a small percentage.

    Hardware and software breakthroughs will make it possible to run LLM models and advanced AI on local, solar powered hardware. For example you can pack a ternary 27b model on a smartphone now.

    In the best case, 50% will belong to the US empire. Which is controlled by the worst of the worst people on earth.