Catastrofeeling Myself

Saccharine and Sarcastic

[catastrofries]

I’m in my sunglasses era

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[isuckattechnology]

Audio:

Erika, referencing ebenezer scrooge: You, boy! What day is it?!

Brennan, as a young boy: It's Pride, bitch!

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[skelotom]

I've been iffy about posting this one, it's not at all like what I would prefer to make. So...obviously this isn't just a trans allegory. I mean I would love to be able to be a nightmarish eldritch creature of flesh and metal, but that's not the main point of these renderings.

I'm tired of insatiable greed dominating the world. I'm tired of being squeezed for more and more while making less and less. I'm tired of not even being able to help everyone I care about, let alone my broader community.

Imagine having an incomprehensible amount of wealth and choosing to increase it further instead of making lives better. I will never understand billionaires or our corporate overlords.

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[loveridden1999]

girl who's 2 drinks in: i love you i love you and i love youuu

[maxxie-or-smth]

you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life

[normal-horoscopes]

[creepycrag]

[chronicallyhomoerotic]

this is a poem. To me.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s this pattern with new tech businesses where they lure in new customers with a really cheap or free product and a bunch of investors pump money into it because it has a lot of users but the company is losing money because the product is too cheap or too free. In this scenario three things might happen.

1. The company goes under because it can’t keep tricking its investors forever (extremely common with most free or cheap startups)

2. The company is forced to turn into an advertising business to survive (early days Google, most social media sites, etc.)

3. The company drives out all other competition and then raises its prices once it’s the only viable option left and its customers are trapped with it (Amazon, uber, etc.)

Now here’s the thing I can’t figure out, which is what all of these AI companies are gonna turn out to be. Because investors are seemingly holding onto this AI thing very tightly, it’s unclear how they could be an advertising company unless they’re selling their products to advertisers who can already use their products for free, and they’re kind of filling an unnecessary niche. I mean, a lot of people clearly find value in AI chatbots even if I don’t like them, but is that enough value for them to be forced to pay for it? I don’t think so. I think for most people it’s like a novelty they can interact with and like every company has a large language model these days so if you start charging for it they can just move to Google or Microsoft’s AI which are large corporations that don’t need to charge extra for the use of their AI.

This is why a lot of people think we’re in an AI bubble and that the bubble’s gonna pop, taking half of the investment market with it. There’s just no way for these individual companies to become profitable in the long term unless they choose to be bought and become subsidiaries of larger companies, but those larger companies have the resources to just create their own LLMs so why would they? Not to mention all of the copyright issues.

The thing is though is that the bubble hasn’t popped yet. Which is weird. It’s pretty obvious to like a lot of people across a lot of industries including the finance industry that an AI large language model isn’t really profitable in isolation, especially if you get people used to using it for free.

It makes me wonder how long until the bubble bursts. It might deflate soon at the very least because currently they’re building more square footage of data centers than is physically needed for basically anything, including generative AI. A lot of communities are also protesting the building of these large data centers in their regions because they’re loud and they bother residents and scare off local wildlife and don’t even create a lot of jobs.

You really don’t need a lot of people to run a data center so once all of the data centers are built and the construction jobs dry up and they have more square footage than they can use there’s not gonna be a good economic impact from all of this and the noise pollution is gonna piss people off.

Anyways beyond even my personal moral reasons for not liking these companies, as someone that’s interested in economics and the numbers involved in business and finance I can’t help but look at all this and be baffled. It’s like a gold rush where the gold doesn’t exist and even the people selling the shovels seem like they’ve built their stores right next to a dam that’s about to break open.

[genuinegameurge]

It feels like a combination of musical chairs and wanting a seat at the table. There’s not a good way out or off, and AI is the only tech investment in town anymore. Any new software as a service can be auto replicated for free.

The AI companies themselves? They feel like they’re building arks for whatever massive societal fallout comes on the wake of AI melting half of our institutions. I work in Learning Technology and see it every day in higher ed.

Meanwhile small, affordable models continue to come out of China and completely negate and argument for the massive resource spend.

Investment hasn’t been about stable business in a long time. It’s about everyone thinking they’re the one who is blessed to be the main character, their investment is the one that will pay off.

And the speed of AI dev makes it indistinguishable from gambling.

[catastrofries]

So what I think is they are trying to do 3 but for labor. But the tech isn't there yet, the adoption isn't there yet, but no one wants to blink first.

[genuinegameurge]

The adoption is / was there in software development, though now that prices are going up people are starting to see junior devs as worthwhile investments again thank goodness.

There’s massive cognitive dissonance I think happening where people investing THINK they’ll get the prediction and scalability of computers and the adaptability of human workers. But the truth is — adaptability requires autonomy and support.

Also, the elephant in the room: the labor application is ABSOLUTELY there in one place — military applications. And when war is on the horizon, weapons are always a good investment.

[catastrofries]

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s this pattern with new tech businesses where they lure in new customers with a really cheap or free product and a bunch of investors pump money into it because it has a lot of users but the company is losing money because the product is too cheap or too free. In this scenario three things might happen.

1. The company goes under because it can’t keep tricking its investors forever (extremely common with most free or cheap startups)

2. The company is forced to turn into an advertising business to survive (early days Google, most social media sites, etc.)

3. The company drives out all other competition and then raises its prices once it’s the only viable option left and its customers are trapped with it (Amazon, uber, etc.)

Now here’s the thing I can’t figure out, which is what all of these AI companies are gonna turn out to be. Because investors are seemingly holding onto this AI thing very tightly, it’s unclear how they could be an advertising company unless they’re selling their products to advertisers who can already use their products for free, and they’re kind of filling an unnecessary niche. I mean, a lot of people clearly find value in AI chatbots even if I don’t like them, but is that enough value for them to be forced to pay for it? I don’t think so. I think for most people it’s like a novelty they can interact with and like every company has a large language model these days so if you start charging for it they can just move to Google or Microsoft’s AI which are large corporations that don’t need to charge extra for the use of their AI.

This is why a lot of people think we’re in an AI bubble and that the bubble’s gonna pop, taking half of the investment market with it. There’s just no way for these individual companies to become profitable in the long term unless they choose to be bought and become subsidiaries of larger companies, but those larger companies have the resources to just create their own LLMs so why would they? Not to mention all of the copyright issues.

The thing is though is that the bubble hasn’t popped yet. Which is weird. It’s pretty obvious to like a lot of people across a lot of industries including the finance industry that an AI large language model isn’t really profitable in isolation, especially if you get people used to using it for free.

It makes me wonder how long until the bubble bursts. It might deflate soon at the very least because currently they’re building more square footage of data centers than is physically needed for basically anything, including generative AI. A lot of communities are also protesting the building of these large data centers in their regions because they’re loud and they bother residents and scare off local wildlife and don’t even create a lot of jobs.

You really don’t need a lot of people to run a data center so once all of the data centers are built and the construction jobs dry up and they have more square footage than they can use there’s not gonna be a good economic impact from all of this and the noise pollution is gonna piss people off.

Anyways beyond even my personal moral reasons for not liking these companies, as someone that’s interested in economics and the numbers involved in business and finance I can’t help but look at all this and be baffled. It’s like a gold rush where the gold doesn’t exist and even the people selling the shovels seem like they’ve built their stores right next to a dam that’s about to break open.

[genuinegameurge]

It feels like a combination of musical chairs and wanting a seat at the table. There’s not a good way out or off, and AI is the only tech investment in town anymore. Any new software as a service can be auto replicated for free.

The AI companies themselves? They feel like they’re building arks for whatever massive societal fallout comes on the wake of AI melting half of our institutions. I work in Learning Technology and see it every day in higher ed.

Meanwhile small, affordable models continue to come out of China and completely negate and argument for the massive resource spend.

Investment hasn’t been about stable business in a long time. It’s about everyone thinking they’re the one who is blessed to be the main character, their investment is the one that will pay off.

And the speed of AI dev makes it indistinguishable from gambling.

[catastrofries]

So what I think is they are trying to do 3 but for labor. But the tech isn't there yet, the adoption isn't there yet, but no one wants to blink first.

[catastrofries]

They've jumped the gun because they overtapped their investors and don't have any meaningful return other than, imagine a future where we've convinced every company its cheaper to replace their workforce with our product and then once the infrastructure is locked in we own that market too.

Or whatever I don't know anything.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s this pattern with new tech businesses where they lure in new customers with a really cheap or free product and a bunch of investors pump money into it because it has a lot of users but the company is losing money because the product is too cheap or too free. In this scenario three things might happen.

1. The company goes under because it can’t keep tricking its investors forever (extremely common with most free or cheap startups)

2. The company is forced to turn into an advertising business to survive (early days Google, most social media sites, etc.)

3. The company drives out all other competition and then raises its prices once it’s the only viable option left and its customers are trapped with it (Amazon, uber, etc.)

Now here’s the thing I can’t figure out, which is what all of these AI companies are gonna turn out to be. Because investors are seemingly holding onto this AI thing very tightly, it’s unclear how they could be an advertising company unless they’re selling their products to advertisers who can already use their products for free, and they’re kind of filling an unnecessary niche. I mean, a lot of people clearly find value in AI chatbots even if I don’t like them, but is that enough value for them to be forced to pay for it? I don’t think so. I think for most people it’s like a novelty they can interact with and like every company has a large language model these days so if you start charging for it they can just move to Google or Microsoft’s AI which are large corporations that don’t need to charge extra for the use of their AI.

This is why a lot of people think we’re in an AI bubble and that the bubble’s gonna pop, taking half of the investment market with it. There’s just no way for these individual companies to become profitable in the long term unless they choose to be bought and become subsidiaries of larger companies, but those larger companies have the resources to just create their own LLMs so why would they? Not to mention all of the copyright issues.

The thing is though is that the bubble hasn’t popped yet. Which is weird. It’s pretty obvious to like a lot of people across a lot of industries including the finance industry that an AI large language model isn’t really profitable in isolation, especially if you get people used to using it for free.

It makes me wonder how long until the bubble bursts. It might deflate soon at the very least because currently they’re building more square footage of data centers than is physically needed for basically anything, including generative AI. A lot of communities are also protesting the building of these large data centers in their regions because they’re loud and they bother residents and scare off local wildlife and don’t even create a lot of jobs.

You really don’t need a lot of people to run a data center so once all of the data centers are built and the construction jobs dry up and they have more square footage than they can use there’s not gonna be a good economic impact from all of this and the noise pollution is gonna piss people off.

Anyways beyond even my personal moral reasons for not liking these companies, as someone that’s interested in economics and the numbers involved in business and finance I can’t help but look at all this and be baffled. It’s like a gold rush where the gold doesn’t exist and even the people selling the shovels seem like they’ve built their stores right next to a dam that’s about to break open.

[genuinegameurge]

It feels like a combination of musical chairs and wanting a seat at the table. There’s not a good way out or off, and AI is the only tech investment in town anymore. Any new software as a service can be auto replicated for free.

The AI companies themselves? They feel like they’re building arks for whatever massive societal fallout comes on the wake of AI melting half of our institutions. I work in Learning Technology and see it every day in higher ed.

Meanwhile small, affordable models continue to come out of China and completely negate and argument for the massive resource spend.

Investment hasn’t been about stable business in a long time. It’s about everyone thinking they’re the one who is blessed to be the main character, their investment is the one that will pay off.

And the speed of AI dev makes it indistinguishable from gambling.

[catastrofries]

So what I think is they are trying to do 3 but for labor. But the tech isn't there yet, the adoption isn't there yet, but no one wants to blink first.

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s this pattern with new tech businesses where they lure in new customers with a really cheap or free product and a bunch of investors pump money into it because it has a lot of users but the company is losing money because the product is too cheap or too free. In this scenario three things might happen.

1. The company goes under because it can’t keep tricking its investors forever (extremely common with most free or cheap startups)

2. The company is forced to turn into an advertising business to survive (early days Google, most social media sites, etc.)

3. The company drives out all other competition and then raises its prices once it’s the only viable option left and its customers are trapped with it (Amazon, uber, etc.)

Now here’s the thing I can’t figure out, which is what all of these AI companies are gonna turn out to be. Because investors are seemingly holding onto this AI thing very tightly, it’s unclear how they could be an advertising company unless they’re selling their products to advertisers who can already use their products for free, and they’re kind of filling an unnecessary niche. I mean, a lot of people clearly find value in AI chatbots even if I don’t like them, but is that enough value for them to be forced to pay for it? I don’t think so. I think for most people it’s like a novelty they can interact with and like every company has a large language model these days so if you start charging for it they can just move to Google or Microsoft’s AI which are large corporations that don’t need to charge extra for the use of their AI.

This is why a lot of people think we’re in an AI bubble and that the bubble’s gonna pop, taking half of the investment market with it. There’s just no way for these individual companies to become profitable in the long term unless they choose to be bought and become subsidiaries of larger companies, but those larger companies have the resources to just create their own LLMs so why would they? Not to mention all of the copyright issues.

The thing is though is that the bubble hasn’t popped yet. Which is weird. It’s pretty obvious to like a lot of people across a lot of industries including the finance industry that an AI large language model isn’t really profitable in isolation, especially if you get people used to using it for free.

It makes me wonder how long until the bubble bursts. It might deflate soon at the very least because currently they’re building more square footage of data centers than is physically needed for basically anything, including generative AI. A lot of communities are also protesting the building of these large data centers in their regions because they’re loud and they bother residents and scare off local wildlife and don’t even create a lot of jobs.

You really don’t need a lot of people to run a data center so once all of the data centers are built and the construction jobs dry up and they have more square footage than they can use there’s not gonna be a good economic impact from all of this and the noise pollution is gonna piss people off.

Anyways beyond even my personal moral reasons for not liking these companies, as someone that’s interested in economics and the numbers involved in business and finance I can’t help but look at all this and be baffled. It’s like a gold rush where the gold doesn’t exist and even the people selling the shovels seem like they’ve built their stores right next to a dam that’s about to break open.

[genuinegameurge]

It feels like a combination of musical chairs and wanting a seat at the table. There’s not a good way out or off, and AI is the only tech investment in town anymore. Any new software as a service can be auto replicated for free.

The AI companies themselves? They feel like they’re building arks for whatever massive societal fallout comes on the wake of AI melting half of our institutions. I work in Learning Technology and see it every day in higher ed.

Meanwhile small, affordable models continue to come out of China and completely negate and argument for the massive resource spend.

Investment hasn’t been about stable business in a long time. It’s about everyone thinking they’re the one who is blessed to be the main character, their investment is the one that will pay off.

And the speed of AI dev makes it indistinguishable from gambling.

[catastrofries]

O Fandom is going to miserable about this, which would annoy me, but the fic is going to be so good. I enjoyed the end and I will eat like king.

[nightmargin]

rocky new to ball

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

Anyway, my point is that we should abolish gender (legal) so we can focus on gender (identity) and not be trapped within that framework.

[wolfythewitch]

all all all

[m00nymonster]

AUGH MY HEART