Submitted 3 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e02vx55wpo
The planet is dying, we have pretty much given up on even pretending to do anything about it, and the rich are using the time we have left before mass die offs to get AI up and running early enough to perfect it.
Just a thought that occurred to me today. In better times I would dismiss it as nothing more than an amusing conspiracy theory but lately…
I do not understand what the hell the AI is supposed to even do. Like great okay so let’s say they get to the point that it’s trained and can do the job of a human then what. If you replace everyone with AI then no one will have any jobs and no one will have any money so who are the AI businesses going to sell products too?
The end game doesn’t involve having customers at all. The rich think they just wont need an economy anymore once their slaves die off and automation and AI replace them all.
They wont be able to help themselves though. They will get bored and start eating eachother.
Are there any holes in the business plan that involves converting a dying social media platform thats already flooded with bots, troll farms and AI accounts into an entirely autonomous, isolated chamber of AI accounts, troll farm accounts and targeted ads? Zuck still fucks because of how horrible corporations are at applying KPI’s that show accurate ROIs between different advertising platforms. They have no clue if their ad blitz on Twitter was more successful than the investment in YouTube ads or if it was all a result of the current state of the economy at any point in time. It would take decades before the corporate whores finally pulled enough ads for Zuck to lose a buck. Im thinking Enron style minus the investing all employee retirements fraud.
What do you mean “dying”? Facebook and Instagram are absolutely the dominant social networks / apps in most of the world. Sure there are insane amounts of bots, trolls, scammers and manipulators, but that doesn’t make a platform “dying” while billions of people still use it.
I know someone who just got hired at an unfinished Meta data center, ostensibly to do some low-level hardware monitoring and maintenance. His boss admitted that he accidentally hired people a couple months too early, so the first couple weeks have consisted of sitting around, eating free food and playing mobile games. Next week they’re being flown to an active data center out of state, but they won’t have much of their own work to do for another 4-6 weeks.
So these guys are being paid $25/hr, 40hrs a week, with a free lunch, and making no money for the company. I would expect any other company to find this unacceptable, but it’s just a drop in the bucket for Meta.
Are they a contractor? $25/hr ~$50k seems quite low when Meta’s median salary is like $400k.
Burn, planet, burn.
etherphon@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck silicon valley for putting the wants of the few ahead of the needs of the many. What a tremendous waste of money.
karpintero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And energy. And water. And land. The list goes on and on.