Places like these probably have a lot of expensive equipment like ram, gpus, and storage.

A large data center probably has hundreds of millions or billions worth, USD!

Only you can start data center fires.

Montreal. Go Canada!!

We don't want them, and we elected officials to block them. If our elected officials ignore us, and accept the bribes to build them despite what we want, then we are perfectly within our rights as citizens to burn them to the ground.

We don't want them, and they'd better listen to us. They won't get burned down everywhere, but there is a non-zero number that absolutely will get burned down. If enough of them burn down, they won't want to take a chance on investing in them.

Take out the RAMs and other vital hardware components like GPUs before burning these. AI slop has been a pain and the price increase due to chip shortage is a massive annoyance.

They don't fuck around over there, jeez.

Completely unimportant, but straight up that broken glass looks like someone Looney Tunes'd it and ran through the glass leaving just their silhouette

The article says it seems to have been an organized group. I wonder how one gets into such a group?

Like, do they just send somebody a private message on a decentralized platform with a link to some sort of encrypted messaging app or something?

Unrelated, my inbox is open to anyone wanting to just say hi!

No I am not kidding.

At first read I thought the article was talking about a university research lab. Had to click the CBC link to find out it's building of an actual "AI company."

Based based based based

Actual article.

I can't help but wonder if these companies didn't arrange this alleged attack themselves. Just another way to get attention and thus more investors to fleece.

Feel free to cross post this to Fuck_AI

sounds like a plan

more of this, please

Why target the students? Go for the labs that are using this tech against us.

It didn't say what companies it was. Anyone know?

For all we know it was some physics lab trying to develop fusion reactor designs.

Burn them all

Not every data center has to do with ai folks

I hate this shitty take:

With anxiety over an AI doomsday reaching a fever pitch, some citizens of the world are no longer asking for regulations.

There will be an AI doomsday.

Is it going to be terminators marching down the streets? Almost definitely not.

But either these chatbots don't work and crash out economy, or work and take everyone's job...

We're fucked either way

Billionaires keep saying they'll suddenly be happy with their bank accounts and would start supporting social programs when (really if) it works., but if that was true they'd be doing it now.

The only way to mitigate the damage of AI, is to not build it. Or at least wait to fix wealth inequality first. Because every single billionaire who has ever existed has cared more about personal wealth than human existence. If they didn't they'd have stopped hoarding wealth long before becoming a billionaire and used it to help others.

We can't count on a powerful class of people that requires having a complete lack of empathy to magically develop empathy if we give them even more money. No amount of money will make them develop empathy.

The vandalism in Montreal is just a microcosm of that popular anti-AI sentiment — showing that if people continue to be ignored by their elected officials, they’re not afraid to take matters into their own hands.

Seems the wealthy have forgotten their place.