that's fortune magazine for ya

How does it benefit the area? The money goes to the power cartels either way, and the data centers harm the environment and the people living near them regardless of the electricity cost.

Many local government's aren't on the home rule, they follow some form of the Dillon Rule. This applies to utilities and land use. For some local areas they are required by some degree to follow the State's allocation and billing of utilities to remain classified as a public utility in the State.

In many areas our legal framework at the State and local level were never made to handle what's coming down the pipe with new advances. This is why I always indicate that data centers and their impact need to be addressed at the local level. That's why I think Federal regulation is the wrong step for the building part of AI. This is very much a local and/or State level that needs to desperately be answered there.

The good news is that we see more people who are involved with their local government with this issue. But this underlying issue has been one since the 1970s, it's just that these companies have hired firms that are incredibly well versed in the shortcomings of local ordinances and State law. It's super difficult to patch up flaws in the laws when they're being exploited at rapid fire pace.

Roughly same age group (I think? early Y), and yeah, exactly that.

Searching has become a battle against the terrible AI answers that misinterpret and oversimplify one random result while making it a chore to find actual good sources.

And of course gen AI is also to blame for these good sources being drowned in an ocean of content farms, those shitstain tentacular bastards stealing and garbling information beyond recognition. Walls and walls of text saying absolutely nothing, or complete lies, on every subject known to humanity, feeding on themselves and replacing everything else.

yesterday, I was hunting down documentation on how to get a piece of software (Garage) to create a default key and data storage bucket on startup.

Turns out, there's this site that has a hallucinated set of environment variables to do exactly that with the exact container I'm using. They don't exist. They never did. The only website with a reference to the environment variable is the "AI generated" 3rd party "documentation" site.

Now is the time of monsters.

Our prosecutors like to throw a bunch of heinous charges and see what sticks. Its how they get people to agree with plea bargains.

You can get charged with assault on a police officer if a cop slips and falls while trying to assault you.

In the US you get charged with a bunch of bullshit as an intimidation tactic (or often for propaganda reasons). In court it gets haggled down to the actual charges. No penalty for prosecutors doing this.

The state will protect capital. Just like Luigi, they wanted the death penalty for an alleged single murder of a rich guy. Meanwhile poorer people are free to kill each other and they go to prison, and get paroled. Mess with people who hoard the money and they’ll throw the book at you.

Yeah, one would think that would blow a grand jury ruling. Vandalism, arson... ok.

If it weren't an external gate and was instead someone's front door, then maybe, but as it stands, it's all property damage and attempted murder is a crazy reach...

even my screenshot tool (Samsung) on my phone is called "ai-something or other". when they made the switch, it became laggy, unresponsive, generally slow to use, and far shittier than it was before.

great branding for AI, though, or something

we have meetings at my job about how we can work around the ai's limitations in order to justify the corporate push for it. solution in search of a problem

I’d disagree with that definition. It’s a little like saying that a pedestrian who got hit and dragged by a car was “driving”. At best, it’s someone else forcing their usage upon you. In the cases you mentioned, it is someone else (usually a company looking to save on customer service) who is using AI. The users are the pedestrians in this case, and the companies using AI are the car.

It’s only really good at maybe making repetitive tasks faster. At the cost of our environment.

Even if RAM they use in data centers was compatible with consumer hardware, the companies would sooner burn it all and eat the loss than let us have it. They are sitting pretty right now - they have 0 reason to ever go back to the reasonable prices.

Tell people they’re not going to have any way to get food or shelter and that they’ll be forever locked out of any security or safety and they get angry.

How the fuck is it not? If you have been following developments, these oligarch techbros are basically the US government, they are crashing the economy for their shortsighted profit and complete control over the consumer electronics market via cartels, causing rising prices on everything, not to mention they are using their tech for dystopian things like palantir, surveillance and other autocratic things.

How the fuck is this what radicalizes people

If you watch that Altman jerk, he actually tries to become the ruler of the world by means of his own tech.

Many labor movements throughout history started out due to advances in automation resulting in unemployment and rising inequality. This time around there's also a huge cost of living crisis too, so things are lining up (you might hear "contradictions are sharpening" in marxist circles). If anything I'd have expected violence to start sooner and be more widespread, if someone gets laid off due to AI in this job market they literally have nothing to lose at this point.

They need to stop threatening and just do it

if you live in a common law tradition country like the United States, go read about Jury Nullification right now. and then shut the fuck up about it. if you are summoned for Jury Duty don't bring it up unless directly asked about it.