It took me a few thought cycles to put down that question.

In my understanding, we, as a civilization, are on a high wire number over a pit of knifes. The AI craze is full throtle as we speak, with conflicting indicators that it may/will cause the worst economical crash ever - becoming third in less than twenty years, where each was always reported as an unprecedented and irrepeatable event - while at the same time infiltrating companies in ways we are still to discover how ruinous may prove and spreading over the internet like a grotesque parasite, rendering services unsuable and leaking sensible data.

If the great AI companies tank (I can only hope) and the services they provide - whatever those may be - faill, how much is it going to affect companies? There is really no sense of consensus; some say it was the best thing ever, others are registering neglictable improvements, others failed miserably and had to return to the original state of affairs.

Then there is the constant attack from agents on the net, rendering websites, more or less important, more or less useable or stealing, destroying or corrupting valueable data.

I've reached a point where I am willing to forego internet and even computers. Even technology in a wide sense. At best, I may keep an air gapped machine, to use for writing and printing documents. But will others do it? And if so, will 8t happen in an organic fashion or will things devolve to a point where something cracks and things just get ugly? Because people are tired. Tired of datacenters popping up like poisonous mushrooms everywhere, destroying everything.

People are getting tired. Everywhere.

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[–] [S] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

That is one of my concerns: is it really being used or is it being touted as such?

I haven't used it and don't intend to, so that is my stance on the technology. It has the potential to be extremely useful but not as it is being developed today. Commit to laboratories for scientifical research and development not wide scale intelectual theft.

And is the money in fact pouring in or is it trapped in a very well disguised circular motion between key companies? That's a conflicting sign: many say the money keeps moving in, as many signal the investors are positioning away. Not being knowleadgeable enough, I find myself split, hoping it will fail.

I am aware my thinking is not very well liked but, echoing your sentiment, who doesn't like can move on.

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    I haven't used it and don't intend to, so that is my stance on the technology.

    You actually are, though. Lemmy makes use of AI in its development.

    And is the money in fact pouring in or is it trapped in a very well disguised circular motion between key companies?

    To what end?

    There are clearly identifiable "drains" for that circulating money. When a data center gets built money flows out to purchase real estate, it flows out to construction companies, it flows out to power providers, it flows out to chip manufacturers who pay staff and buy raw materials and so forth. Money is leaving the system. That can't be sustained for long without it coming in to the system from somewhere, and AI's been booming for four years now. Someone's got to be getting something valuable out of it, I'm dubious that literally all of this money is just being dumped in by investors who haven't seen a dime of return in all that time.

    That list I linked to shows that an enormous number of real-world software projects are using AI for various things, for example. Money's changing hands for at least some of that usage.

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