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OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in. (garymarcus.substack.com)
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Tell your congress person — today — that you don’t want your taxes used to bail out overhyping and economically shaky AI companies that spend far more than they earn. Workers, already feeling the knife from layoffs, should not be footing the bill.

Get ahead of this before the too-big-to-fail bullshit becomes too-late-to-stop.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago*

Article is probably, unfortunately, spot on. But the senator's Tweet at the end is not.

The Nvidia CEO said China's going to win the 'AI race' because Chinese devs are clear headed: AI is a tool to them. It performs niche functions, like any good programming construct; none of that existential human analogue future AGI bull. It's why models a fraction of the size of US ones are doing so well at actual productive things, and Jensen's clear headed enough to see that too, but the US is so drunk on Kool-Aid we can't even get the message.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I was making 100k and was laid off for AI. The company’s leads dropped 90%. Fuck AI.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fortunately not, as I enjoy the benefit of not being a US taxpayer. Well, it's a great plan: First US citizens will pay for propping up the stock value of his company so the fun can continue a little longer, and then they pay again - at least trice over - when the AI bubble inevitably busts, and drags the entire US economy down with it.

    He's about to be a really popular guy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And you fucking know Trump will be all in on this because he'll be cut into any bailout money that gets tossed out there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes, I suppose claiming the AI service providers are 'too big to fail', despite having virtually no real customers, no significant revenue and them solving no real problems (but certainly creating plenty) would be just about the only way this whole debacle could possibly get any more idiotic. And it's naturally a superb way to introduce a third step of making the US taxpayers hold the bag.

    So... Given how the 21st century has gone so far, that regrettably does seem rather plausible.

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