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The planet is dying, we have pretty much given up on even pretending to do anything about it, and the rich are using the time we have left before mass die offs to get AI up and running early enough to perfect it.
Just a thought that occurred to me today. In better times I would dismiss it as nothing more than an amusing conspiracy theory but lately…
Y'know if I was the exec of a bloodsucking electricity company, I'd be explicitly putting something in my terms and conditions that commercial AI data-centre use of my company's supply is to be charged double or triple, and that undeclared use will be subject to heavy legal repercussions and surcharges.
There has to already be precedent for specific commercial uses of resources being treated differently from others. And if not, commercial versus non-commercial use may be a close enough precedent.
Likewise, if I'm the oil company or builder of power plants, generators and the like, I'd be putting a similar clause in.
This would then be one of those situations where desires align, however different the goals.
Burn, planet, burn.
Fuck silicon valley for putting the wants of the few ahead of the needs of the many. What a tremendous waste of money.
And energy. And water. And land. The list goes on and on.
Are there any holes in the business plan that involves converting a dying social media platform thats already flooded with bots, troll farms and AI accounts into an entirely autonomous, isolated chamber of AI accounts, troll farm accounts and targeted ads? Zuck still fucks because of how horrible corporations are at applying KPI's that show accurate ROIs between different advertising platforms. They have no clue if their ad blitz on Twitter was more successful than the investment in YouTube ads or if it was all a result of the current state of the economy at any point in time. It would take decades before the corporate whores finally pulled enough ads for Zuck to lose a buck. Im thinking Enron style minus the investing all employee retirements fraud.
