From the "that's totally a normal thing for a techbro to say" files: Sam Altman envisions "a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it
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Because who doesn't want to pay higher power bills for AI that will take their job and their ability to pay power bills?
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You ungrateful peons will probably be upset when rolling blackouts kill your air conditioner and leave you dying of heatstroke, when you should be happy that agentic AI can do more of whatever it is agentic AI does!
Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030
Digital infrastructure is putting serious strain on the US grid
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You ungrateful peons will probably be upset when rolling blackouts kill your air conditioner and leave you dying of heatstroke, when you should be happy that agentic AI can do more of whatever it is agentic AI does!
Be careful about badmouthing AI if you live in the City of Brotherly Love: A law-enforcement memo reveals that Philadelphia police are paying close attention to anti-datacenter talk online.
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Philly Cops Are Reportedly Monitoring Anti-AI Memes, According to Internal Alert
A bulletin from a regional fusion center clocks increasing anti-AI sentiment on social media and warns offline destructive action is coming.
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And in this brave new world, all you need to do to be branded a "domestic terrorist" is protest something Trump likes.
Isn’t that just what services like AWS and Azure and TeraData already do? Rentable scalable compute? Like comparing it to water or electricity in terms of utility is fucking asinine but he’s not suggesting some grand paradigm shift here.
Hopefully the tide is turning against this latest craze phase -
AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030
A new U.N. report warns AI’s environmental cost is often mismeasured.
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I imagine there's been a few postings of Ed Zitron already, but I've been watching a few videos with him talking.
TLDW: Lots of innvestor hype for a product that can't do what it claims and will never be profitable or be able to install the physical infrastructure it needs even if the first 2 weren't true.
TLDW: Lots of innvestor hype for a product that can't do what it claims and will never be profitable or be able to install the physical infrastructure it needs even if the first 2 weren't true.
Sega using genAI.
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LJTTLE COAST DINER Thanks for the ai slop, Sega [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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I'm no lawyer but I do wonder what their definition of "generated" is. I feel like this will just end up with every single news article having that AI tag and nothing will really change. Not to mention people posting the worst AI generated "news" are usually either bots or people who live in other countries.
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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So they both risked their jobs, their credibility, and their clients in a highly regulated licensed profession which also benefits them as they won't be as affected by AI by using AI. Fucking idiots.Soon lawyers will have us pay extra for the promise not to use AIJudge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
One also notes that this sort of thing keeps happening to those using AI, and yet people keep trusting it. The first few disasters should have made its dangers fairly clear.
Fueled by that corpo doublethink of simultaneously hyping up AI as the best thing ever and you should use it for everything, while turning around and saying you can't trust it for shit. But not too visibly, of course.
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to...
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