• schmorp@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    I was out of work for over a year and jobs have been coming in again since two months. The many indications that this unholy shit bubble is finally bursting has me smiling, dancing and singing “The robot is dead, the robot is dead!”. I hate the AI hype with a passion, not just because of my work, but because of the ghastly slop we’re being exposed to everywhere online. I hope it disappears quickly into the same hole NFTs when to fuck off into.

    Now before the billionaires come up with the next stupid hype can we at least eat a few of them?

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      Investors have created their own little Keynesian stimulus package by dumping money into AI. It’s the only reason the US economy hasn’t been contracting the last few months.

      When this bubble pops, it’s going to hurt. Bad. But it has to pop, and the sooner it happens, the better.

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      6 days ago

      I pray to the gods that you are right and for your wishes of a hearty meal to be fulfilled

      I’ve been looking for work for over two years

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        Sure it is. Self-hosted models aren’t going to be a mass market technology any more than self-hosted Jellyfin servers are. The investment is all in big datacenters, and after three years of LLM hype, nobody has figured out how to make revenue that comes close to matching their investment. We’re literally seeing $100B/year investment for returns of $10M over the same year.

        You sound like the same people who said we’ll all get left behind if we don’t use NFTs.