This is still pretty much bleeding edge technology, who's to say that the way we are currently doing thing is the most optional one? I'd rather they stop building these massive data centers and instead have their researchers focus on making these models run on consumer level hardware since throwing more and more compute power at the problem is not sustainable in the long run.

The executive accused the media of spreading “misinformation and outright lies,” arguing that “in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before.”

Dude, you are literally trying to build the lying pipe, that makes the lying more conversational, and this is your argument. You are holding 40 bloody knives and yelling that THEY are sending a dude with a knife if we don't act right now... You are in the hot dog suit.

These people should be elected to the "Sun council for exceptional beings". Very prestigious... Very wow... It's where we shoot you into the sun.

Have any of these AI CEOs, politicians or tech bros that try to rally behind a nationalistic "gotta win the AI race against China" ever explained what is actually consequential about this race in their view for anyone but themselves? Like other than your personal company's outlook, your stock portfolio or your political influence/military usage over what is, best case scenario (being generous), a valuable and useful advanced tool for some types of work... what difference does it make to the average internet user if their AI chat bots or agents are developed in or run on data centers in the US or China?

Or more realistically, if they have the largest market share in the world, because there's no lose state that means that the US AI companies can't still exist... unless the AI companies keep pissing people off enough for the public to actually just shut down every data center.

It seems pretty clear that the only real motivation is an unimpeded return on their massive investments. China having market share in AI applications does not, inherently, threaten anyone's safety any more than if they have a minority share in the market.

Please, I BEG of You, LET us REPLACE your Jobs!

-Matt Garman!

This gentleman can eat a dick.

Insane. They have gone completely insane. I am one of the people who say Machine Learning and LLMs are a good technology, and that the amount of ressources used by the common ChatGPT-User is not worth writing home about (as long as they aren't generating slop videos, which are using remarkable amounts of ressources for the arguably crappy results), but what these people are doing has nothing to do with anything even remotely rational. All of this is a financial desaster waiting to happen, just for militaries and spy agencies to scoop up what has been built to turn it against all of us.

The tech industry has fully lost its plot.

It never had one, those companies are complicit in genocide, war crimes, news manipulation and part of imperialism since two decades, so destroying the earth is like a side hustle.

I mean wikileaks documents in 2012 showed that google were intentionally involved in the proxy war of Syria, this was lead by western governments co operated with islamist terrorist to start a civil war.

Julian assange wrote an article in 2014 warning everyone about google.

UN report about Amazon role in the genocide of gaza.

"Guys, shut up and just do what I'm saying!"

Incels that were just in the right place at the right time to get rich.

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to embrace data centers

Who the fuck is reading the blog of some Amazon executive who isn't already on the kool-aid?

(also, lol at job title inflation finally reaching the "CEO" level. I see Amazon now has 3 CEOs and an "Executive Chairman".)

So this guy is claiming we’re listening to misinformation while simultaneously hiding behind NDAs regarding data centers.

"I won't listen to words anymore" - Bezos

The executive accused the media of spreading “misinformation and outright lies,” arguing that “in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before.”

Yeah? Well whose fault is that?

Amazon wants communities to stop »defying« its AI data centers, which is a fascinating way to describe democracy when democracy becomes inconvenient. Apparently locals should provide the land, water, power and infrastructure, then politely shut up while one of the world’s richest corporations decides what »progress« looks like.

@eicker Theyre lucky im not there, id bomb the things on the regular

Yea, stop defying and start actively opposing

“Just like the national highway system, our country’s economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely,” he wrote.

Right out of the gate, the national highway system is owned by the public, not fucking corporations you knob.

In our county Amazon is being allowed to build a massive data center right next to our reservoir, take over maintaining a dam on the creek that comes out of the reservoir, and discharge 98 degree water into the creek.

„We‘re stealing your intellectual property, your infrastructure that you paid for and your land to rent it back to you later. Please do not resist.“ -AI industry

What else needs to be said other than, yeah, these criminals have lost the plot.

The executive accused the media of spreading “misinformation and outright lies,” arguing that “in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before.”

Misinformation and outright lies? Isn't that "executives" playbook?

I don't believe anything what "corps" are trying to tell.

Remember the tale of the kid crying wolf? That's on them.

Can we stop talking about water usage and start talking about how this is a military operation

or else they will send all the amazon empty boxes to local communities.