Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point

• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m already seeing a surge of AI simp trolls on Lemmy in the last few days.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ironically enough they’re the same trolls as the vegan drama.

    They don’t care about the topic, they just want to troll and they’ve been up/device banned from all the major social media, so they’ll always be here

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• criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  MBA dweebs running VC firms wanna desperately replace people with AI for short term profits.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is it.

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  still don’t know how to monetize it.

  They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023. There’s also huge R&D potential in fields like genetic research and medicine.

  Profitability is another question though. Likely we’re waiting for advances in cold fusion or late stage renewable development for energy costs to go down enough.

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  • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023.

    And all that $1B revenue cost them was a $5B loss! www.wheresyoured.at/howmuchmoney/

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes my second paragraph alleged as much. Not that you read that far of course.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    AI having to wait on cold fusion for profitability is one of the funnier concepts I’ve heard today, thank you.

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    • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s being used to research fusion too

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I know, I regularly sleep with one of the researchers involved with several similar pojects (aren’t I cool). Fascinating stuff though! Very much not comparable to commercial LLMs, though.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People pay for the “premium” because they believe the makers who said it can increase their profitability and make them money.

    My employer keeps trying to shove it down our throats too.

    They’re desperate to find anyway to make it reduce work, be cause they’ve already paid for it under the assumption it would let them cut staffing

    Now they’re finding out they got swindled, do you think they’ll re-up on AI?

    The AI companies offloaded how to monetize it to consumers and scared them into being left behind unless they discovered how to use it.

    It’s a short term bubble.

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• randomblock1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A good example were those Apple AI ads. So cringe. Google’s ads aren’t much better but at least Gemini works.

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• zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  AI in this form has been used for like 15 years, to generate trillions of dollars worth of value. I think you’re just talking specifically about ChatGPT and consumer-facing LLMs.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    AI in this form has been used for like 15 years, to generate trillions of dollars worth of value

    Suuuuuuuuuuure it has…

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He’s probablly talking about shareholder “value”, AKA inflated stock prices, rather than actual value.

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    • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      lol ok. I’ve literally done it. Please, go enlighten yourself on google.

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      • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Enlighten yourself” you mean make your argument for you?

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