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The recent increase of hardware prices (the example I gave yesterday of the same RAM I purchased about 2 years ago for a cheap computer, suddenly costing 2.5x a

The recent increase of hardware prices (the example I gave yesterday of the same RAM I purchased about 2 years ago for a cheap computer, suddenly costing 2.5x as much as it did ~2 years ago) changed my opinion completely. I was already skeptical of AI, but I could see a few possible use cases, such as generating images for use in free-to-play browser games, and so forth. But I also saw a lot of crap - fake-videos on youtube that just wastes my time. And now that the prices are going up, I have enough indeed. The big tech bro AI mega-corporations need to pay us - aka mankind - for the damage they cause here. The AI bubble is already subsiding, we see that, despite Trump trying to protect the mafiosi here. They owe us billions now in damage. Microsoft also recently announced it will milk everyone by increasing the prices due to "new AI features in MS office". Granted, I don't use Microsoft products as such (I do have a computer running Win10 though, so my statement is not 100% correct; I just don't use a Microsoft paid-for office suite or any other milk-for-money service), but I think it is time to turn the odds. These corporations should pay us, for the damage they are causing here in general. I no longer accept the AI mafia method, even less so as the prices of hardware went up because of this. This mafia owes us money.

ronsor 10mo ago
Neither companies nor individuals owe you "damages" because they merely did something you don't like.
- palmotea 10mo ago
  > Neither companies nor individuals owe you "damages" because they merely did something you don't like. As a matter of present law, maybe not. Doesn't mean it has to stay that way. And this thing isn't merely "[doing] something you don't like."
  - hunterpayne 10mo ago
    Your insipid post wasted some of all of our time. Does that mean you now owe all of us?
azemetre 10mo ago
People need to realize that these companies only exist because of work that the public openly shared with society at no cost (transistors and the internet). All they want to do is extract as much wealth as possible before dying. There should be regulations that tax big tech enough to pay out billions to support a public jobs programs toward open source development. They're destroying the most precious thing in the known universe, our planet, to chase a fictional good. It's insanity.

ronsor 10mo ago

Neither companies nor individuals owe you "damages" because they merely did something you don't like.

palmotea 10mo ago
> Neither companies nor individuals owe you "damages" because they merely did something you don't like. As a matter of present law, maybe not. Doesn't mean it has to stay that way. And this thing isn't merely "[doing] something you don't like."
- hunterpayne 10mo ago
  Your insipid post wasted some of all of our time. Does that mean you now owe all of us?

azemetre 10mo ago

People need to realize that these companies only exist because of work that the public openly shared with society at no cost (transistors and the internet). All they want to do is extract as much wealth as possible before dying. There should be regulations that tax big tech enough to pay out billions to support a public jobs programs toward open source development. They're destroying the most precious thing in the known universe, our planet, to chase a fictional good. It's insanity.