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Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money (futurism.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think this is the lines they want people to think along. But I think it's a lot worse. These data centres have very little to do with AI as the public currently imagine it.

I genuinely believe a lot of them arent being built to make money. They same way police don't buy riot gear to make money.

They are building the hardware for a final stage boss level surveillance and control project, and dropping a smoke screen about AI bubbles and chat GPT while they do it.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There might be some people thinking along those lines, but I'd be careful to tread into the territory of conspiracy theories. To me this seems a lot more like a case of "The bad implications are pretty obvious when you think about it - but we can't let that stand in the way of making a profit!".

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Yeah it's definitely verging on conspiratorial. The data centre rush doesn't really make sense in any other context imo.

    I feel like the mask western govs have been wearing for the last 50 years are slipping and the old cunts are still there and now they have this new tool.

    Even before LLMs people were ringing the alarm bells about the inevitable tying together of disparate GOV DBs, AI just gave them a way of utilising the data that didn't exist before.

    Unfortunately I feel like I will be completely vindicated on this one, and im not a conspiracy nut at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    palintir is already pretty integrated in targeting protesters, and i suspect another form AI is being used for "catching red light violations" at stops already. Thiel's attempt to obfuscate his role by having a puppet ceo on each of his LOTR-themed companies isnt fooling people.

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