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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 239 points 1 month ago (22 children)

AI increases my power utility bill
AI takes my water
AI increases the price of GPUs
AI increases the price of RAM
AI makes my search results worse and slower
AI is inserted into every website, app, program, and service making them all worse

All so businesses and companies can increase productivity, reduce staff, and then turn around and increase prices to customers.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 75 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Right, what you said, but I'd remove the part where it increases productivity.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Seriously. The amount of time spent handholding the AIs no one asked to use more than offsets any supposed productivity gains.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

What cracks me up is things they are doing that cost more (both money and resources) but don't help at all. Like instead of the press for this or this you get an llm which can only send you to the exact same options. Adding it to IDE's where by and large it does stuff you could get with a variety of addons.

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