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Concerning US big tech AI news:
1) 112 billion dollar investments often not in their balance sheets
2) Anthropic has to increase its gross margin from -94% to 77% within 3 years
3) Accounting tricks for AI GPUs
AI prices will rise sharply very soon.
Way out: Independent AI infrastructure, open-source software, no vendor-lock-in
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@ranagmbh Seems legit but why not be more Luddite about it, instead of just moving the scam to EU?
@gittaca In my opinion AI has good use cases, especially when it comes to automatization and support of data analysis. I don’t think it’s a scam. But the future projections for AI of the big tech companies, that’s where the problem lies.
@gittaca I understand your perspective. But AI will stay, hopefully on a reasonable scale. Edge AI could be a way to leverage specialized, efficient models on-device.
@ranagmbh I only mean GenAI offers as a whole, and not just _what's produced_. Rampant externalisation of environmental costs, e-waste (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_aging#Causes), etc. How's that worth any part of the 1% non-trash/-scam output?
Yes, LLMs and GenAI are a big part right now, but there are also models focusing on visual AI in combination with machine learning.
We can agree that 99% of what people do with Sora and Veo is between trash and scam.
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