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jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days agoBroadly, I see “AI” as part of enshitification. I think it’s brain rotting. It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it.
You can run your own AI locally if you have powerful enough equipment, so that you’re not dependent on paying a monthly fee to a provider. Smaller quantized models work fine on consumer-grade GPUs with 16GB RAM.
The major issue with AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI at the moment is that they’re all subsidizing the price. Once they start charging what it actually costs, I think some of the hype will die off.
Oh I know you can run it locally, but I don’t think you can’t create it locally because even if you had the compute, you don’t have the training material.
I don’t know how long AI companies are expecting to run at a loss. It is normal for a while for new bigtech. Though this is new scales. Hopefully this bubble with deflate rather than pop, just because the amount of money will have real world consequences.
You can rent computing power, just like everyone else, unless you’re willing to buy anything, which you can, but you’ll have to spend a good amount
It’s not just the compute, it’s all that data.
As always, have to think where you put your money.
Be so much easier if they weren’t all just different types of bastards!
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Honest question: How is it different than anything else we are dependent on? The ‘dependent on’ list is quite long and includes things like transportation, infrastructure, power grid, fuel, food supply, water supply, industry, internet communications, et al. We are very dependent upon these things. Are they ‘enshitifications’ as well? I’ve tried to construct my life to be as independent as possible. I grow my own food, pump my water from several wells on my property, employ solar power while still connected to the grid. Try as I may, I am still dependent.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Well one way is I don’t depend on it already. But it’s also not like food or water, or grid, society infrastructure in general. It’s just another way of doing compute, but dependent on big tech’s big iron. Being made dependent on big tech is the enshitification. It’s just another method, they have already done all the anticompetition they can. Consumer choice isn’t a solution to regulatory failure, but it’s not nothing.
On top of poltical/power problem, it will have similar effect on software developer brains as satnavs do the navigation parts of our brains. Like satnavs, there will be way to get the good / bad balance better, but that’s not in big tech’s interest. It’s all so damn toxic and drowning open source project in slop PR requests.