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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
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AI is really ruining fucking everything. The enviorment, entertainement, music, art, jobs, reality, freedom / privacy / rights.
The fact people are blaming the tech rather than the tech bros is a big part of why this keeps happening.
Its the decision of real people that make this situation suck.
Indeed.
I have a model running locally on my NAS that does image recognition for photos in my Immich app (think Google Photos, but private). It does a decent job and runs well on AMD integrated graphics on a Ryzen 5 3400G. I just search for [daughter's name], and there she is.
I use Firefox's translation feature (that also runs locally and can run on low end hardware).
My sister is blind and uses an AI assisted screen reader that works way better than what she was using before.
The issue isn't AI/machine learning in itself, it's this tech bro arms race. It's them manipulating models to push agendas. It's them shoehorning an LLM into every fucking Google query. It's them telling companies they can fire all their staff and rely on LLMs.
Yeah but we can't possibly hold people accountable for the actions of their company, think of the shareholders!
Capitalism is the biggest religion of today, and it's su successful it can coexist with a lot of other religions.
It's not AI destroying the environment and making us miserable, it's th pursuit of profit. It's not "corporate greed" sucking us dry. Corporations are greedy by design under Capitalism, that's the whole point. It's not bad CEOs making evil decisions. It's the system that allows such wealth and power to exist.
All of those problems are systemic, not bad people making bad decisions. Treating capitalism like law of nature won't fix anything.
Oh we certainly can (blockchain bubble).