AI businesses are already getting away with their software killing innocent people. I think everyone will work out for the people at the top.

It's why there's often a human in the loop who has to check the result of the AI and can be blamed if things go wrong. The poor sap can't possibly check and correct the volumes of slop produced so they're just there to work as a scapegoat.

I’m pretty certain that companies and people have been using the old “computer error” excuse since at least the 1980s.

Are you sure? So far it seems like they've been able to do just that.

That describes my entire life since adolescence... wondering what kind of society we could have had if we werent governed by sociopaths

Just want to point out the "more layoffs". We are still in the Uber-subsidized part of the relationship.

This is the honeymoon and it ain't off to a great start

Speaking of layoffs:

To everyone here I am in need of work and on side working on some personal open-source projects. If I'm going to be unhoused I might as well enjoy it:

• Endless Runner Mobile Game like Temple Run but with ninjas and fighting enemies like mechs, assassin fish robots, etc along the way. Going for a retro type aesthetic. Undecided on what kind

• A Dark Cartoon Action Rogue-like Shoot Em Up (Think Mouse: P.I. For Hire mixed with Vampire Survivors) where you are trying to survive against endless hordes of enemies and collaborating with or fighting against other players depending on the gamemode (Maybe both at same time for one gamemode)(To see how to implement local co-op too) https://youtu.be/9nrmJSgqYTI https://youtu.be/iIlkIA6lxl0

• A Conker-like spiritual sucessor game with a brand new open source mascot at the helm (Will see how to have other open source mascots part of the story in some way too in a tasteful way) https://youtu.be/bTsNc_Bh17Y https://youtu.be/eorXCzJlpJ8

• A Walking-Bike (I have ambitions for bigger vehicle projects with others in future. Walking Bike-Cars, etc) https://youtube.com/shorts/pspKOt-0XUg

• A Short Animation series about Mini-Kaijus and their adventures about going around (destroying) the world

I'm a newbie for most of this but doing to learn and revise/overhaul as I go and learn more to eventually make these better and build up teams to work on these too (Make a couple game studios one by one eventually as well)

Have more experience with programming but nothing publicly showable yet sadly since I don't have much confidence/self-esteem in myself and well I have never shown my work before. I'm proud of them and how they play/run. I'm sure people would like them but I don't know

My ultimate goal though is to make games, animations, and even vehicles that people enjoy using, have fun with to play, and are moddable, and with community creations so you can play/drive them however you want. Building up communities, studios, and more that live well, get paid well, and enjoy creating together

Thinking of making a Ko-Fi/Patreon but have no clue if anyone would even donate to see any of this be fully made and released.

They're nvidia, they don't care if the shovels they're selling won't dig any gold

Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They're either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they're willing to pay more for a workforce that can't organize and protest and that they don't have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.

Some CEO's thought they could save a bundle and were eager to replace workers. Other CEO's saw that, had to do a bunch of layoffs and knew saying "replaced with AI" instead of layoffs keeps stock prices high. Then you have a whole bunch of CEO's that thought the other guys must be on to something, think they're missing out and jump into AI both feet first. The laggards are bombarded with news and propaganda by the big players to get them pulled in too. So by now you get everybody messing around with AI in some fashion. That's the moment the tech giants put the squeeze on everybody.

They are clearly anti-human. The question is what are they really trying to achieve? I hope it is not just Bioshock.

I think they’re hoping the result is that we can only afford cheap tablet devices that act as dumb terminals for their cloud services which we have to rent forever due to holding our data hostage so they can manufacture consent and prevent us from developing open solutions to their walled garden proprietary products.

A precarious moment at the edge of a cliff.

These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a "game streaming" service, for example.

I've been waiting for this to happen. People don't generally understand datacenters. You have to bring in an unending stream of bare metal in one side to keep them updated and they're using the fastest, most expensive hardware available, and it's so cutting edge, it's obsolete a couple years after they install it. There is no way those measly $200 claude accounts are paying for themselves without VC.

Not too mention Über and other new services clearly worked on getting people hooked, then jacking up the price.

SAW style

So, their arms are stuck in a device that allows them to reach a keyboard. If they can get the AI to do a task correctly they're free, if not the device cuts of the arms.

And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps...

They think it is a lottery and sinking more money into it will increase the odds of "winning at everything".

Their not firing middle managers. Their firing front line coders and lower desk employees and keeping the middle managers while using AI.

If you have someone good enough shepherding it, you can get decent results quickly.

It doesn't turn less money into more output, it turns more money into less time. And, you know, steals from everyone and eats our resources. omnomnomnom

100k East Asian tech workers, sure.

AI = Actually Indonesian

I'm not sure slop will go for good, I'm just hoping for a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs and GPUs at "please take us back" prices to build a new machine from scratch