And we’re still in the “let’s be cheap and try and undercut each other” phase, before the snake eats its own tail. Things only get more expensive from here.
Meanwhile whole careers are in shambles because of these greedy asshats.
What a fucking joke.
Everyone is saying it
So efficient!
Not sure it’s a majority, but agree there is a huge contingent of people who seem to think this direction is good. Or maybe it just feels huge because, you know, bots
The cost to go with a movie with one friend is around $30-35 where I live. This assumes buying no concessions.
The cost to buy that movie on a physical format (assuming it releases on one) is $20-30 depending on whether that format is DVD or Blu-Ray.
A lot of folks right now could not afford either option. But even for those who can, the math doesn’t math on movie theaters.
Guillotines. Invest now before it’s too late!
Even the headline is wrong. Jobs have already started disappearing due to AI.
Jellyfin has definitely gotten leaps and bounds better in the last 4 years.
I pressed it. Just pressed it again. Turns out it doesn’t show up on Lemmy. Lol
Remember this the next time some politician says we don’t have money for services that would actually help US citizens.
Not that it’ll make a difference, but at least you’ll know you were right as the world burns down around you.
Agreed. Not sure why one should trust this source.
The IRS has some relatively detailed specifications about their use of AI on their website. I haven’t looked carefully enough to make a judgment, but given the internet and clickbait, I wouldn’t be surprised if the original link is embellishing some specifics.
As other commenters have said, a key factor hasn’t hit yet: AI is artificially cheap because the whole thing is running on a bunch of investor money in a giant loop.
Once some IPOs go through, these companies will be required (by law) to produce a return to their investors. Given the actual costs of the AI chain, that will be extremely, extremely difficult to do, if it is possible at all.
At the very least, expect some mergers / acquisitions as companies try and consolidate to fix the shortfall by reducing competition. Though specifics are hard to pin down, given the complexity of the production chain and the associated energy costs, this likely won’t be enough.
The market will self-correct when it’s cheaper to do things the old way. Obviously, FOSS projects should fall off the AI wagon pretty quickly, since they’re not revenue generating anyway (at least not directly).
Yeah, this is a major issue across the board. For a wide variety of products, if they clearly marked which were AI generated, then the sales would likely speak for themselves.
But companies don’t really want to do this. They want to mix AI slop in with regular products, so that over time, the average consumer dumbs down enough to no longer know the difference. Then they just generate every product ever and number go up.
This still ignores the fact that no one will have money to put into the system from the bottom (which is the only way it flows in an economy), but here we are.
That’s the thing: it doesn’t have to be better since it’s 100% free. It could be considerably worse and still be the better choice for the price.
The fact that it’s mostly on par is absolute gravy.
No no, real numbers would hurt the bottom line. AI relies on great expectations and overly trusting techbros.
We could be beyond it. What hasn’t happened quite yet are things like failing currencies, but it’s entirely possible we are beyond the point of no return. Once the giant ring of investments catches up with itself, the snake eats its own tail, the bottom drops out, and the greatest economic crash the world has ever seen stampedes unfettered through the lives of every person on the planet.
To look at this another way: the government of South Korea has decided to give people the feeling of a strike without actually letting it affect bottom lines in any meaningful way. That is, they have relegated the strike (a key utility of those fighting for workers’ rights) to being a tool used solely to assuage discontent in the short term. Without economic teeth, it cannot be used to enhance the lives of workers, which is ultimately the explicit goal of any strike.
South Korea is of course not alone in reducing or eliminating the rights of its citizens so that corporations continue to profit at their expense.
Arch people tend to want people to know they use Arch (btw). You’ll also find a lot of posts about getting Arch working.
Debian people tend to be too busy doing other things on their computers besides getting them working, so you’ll hear about it less.
(Important: I’m not dumping on either distro here. Some people, myself included, like Arch exactly because it’s fun to play with and set up. Debian’s older packages tend to mean a more stable system. Use what you like.)