Do we actually know where the money for all this is coming from? The hardware and power bills alone should look like a huge black hole for any company doing this. Completely unsustainable, and yet Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple all continue to function without issues.

The revenue generated is tiny, so where is the money coming from?

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Some changes, and Boosters vs Doomers

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For Starters

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GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition

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Hostile work environment.

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I wrote a blog post / essay about AI and the benefits of not using it.

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Physics-based models outperform AI weather forecasts of record-breaking extremes

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China: Firing employees and replacing them with AI is illegal

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AI Deleted Everything in 9 Seconds… Again

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Kent Overstreet is a complete and utter twatwaffle.

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Pentagon says US military will be an 'AI-first' fighting force

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VS Code now adds Copilot as a co-author to any git commits by default

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What if AI was a human coworker named Dave?

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Chris (Simpsons artist) has illustrated a New York Times essay on artists using AI…

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Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows

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A reflection of the usage of AI

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Everything (Art by Pizzacakecomic)

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I'm so fucking tired..

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AI Being Used for Imperial Propaganda

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