Fuck AI

1. People using it as a replacement for another person, a search engine or for generating media. These aren't things you used to use a PC for.
2. It's factually not.
3. Obviously. I'm not saying price increases are a good thing. My point is that higher prices won't lead to people flocking to LLMs, they'll keep using what they have even if it's slow.
4. Yet for oop's theory to be viable they need to stay up for longer than the current computers stop being viable.
5. I don't question that the AI boom is the cause of price increases. The problem is that even if you alter the theory to be about cloud computing in general the fact that we still have PCs disproved it.
6. I didn't see anything about this being about local LLMs. I'm sorry for the people whose primary pc use case was self hosted LLMs but didn't have the memory to run them..

Maybe this'll slow down the adoption of self hosted LLMs, but most people either need a computer for something they can't use an LLM for or they already use an online LLM for it.

On the first point I can say, that there are manufactured use cases and they are based on societal failings in other areas. Companies are just capitalizing on them and offer only a perversion of what we had before.