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Notton Okay, so are they going to go after the Russian propaganda bots, impression farming bots, etc? Because, from the sounds of it, OpenAI will only take action if they deem they are losing money off of the transaction. I also find it funny the Chinese bots mainly targeted Twitter. That place is now so full of bots, you'll maybe see like 1/1000 comments made by an actual human. It's so bad it makes Youtube comments section look good in comparison. (they're both bad and filled with bots) Reply
PEnns Hide it and the problems will go away!! Damn those cartons, they're keeping the tech Bros awake at night. Reply
Zaranthos I suspect these types of things are far more widespread and common than we think. The AI and data center backlash often doesn't look organic at all, nor does it even make sense sometimes. One way or another this stuff is going to happen and most of the time trying to stop it will be like pissing into the wind. The appetite for it comes from industry and consumer alike carried by hundreds of trillions of dollars of investments. Reply
Blacksad999 Notton said: Okay, so are they going to go after the Russian propaganda bots, impression farming bots, etc? Because, from the sounds of it, OpenAI will only take action if they deem they are losing money off of the transaction. I also find it funny the Chinese bots mainly targeted Twitter. That place is now so full of bots, you'll maybe see like 1/1000 comments made by an actual human. It's so bad it makes Youtube comments section look good in comparison. (they're both bad and filled with bots) Exactly. Russian propaganda bots who spam conservative "alternative facts"? No problem. Chinese bots who say something negative about AI datacenters? Gotta go. Reply
phead128 NIMBYism (" Not In My Back Yard" ) is a classic American tradition dating back to 1980's, over 46 years ago. OpenAI is filing for IPO worth almost $1 Trillion and is financially invested in steamrolling any opposition to it's AI and data center plans – democracy be damned. If you oppose higher electricity and water depletion in your neighborhood, you are obviously a Chinese agent and must arrested for sabotage for speaking the truth against Big AI. Reply
bit_user phead128 said: NIMBYism (" Not In My Back Yard" ) is a classic American tradition dating back to 1980's, over 46 years ago. And it's not just affecting the people whose back yards it's in! It's having a real impact on electricity prices and memory prices . So, the natural expectation should be for widespread outcry! phead128 said: If you oppose higher electricity and water depletion in your neighborhood, you are obviously a Chinese agent and must arrested for sabotage for speaking the truth against Big AI. Well, we have yet to hear complaints about legit users getting banned on these grounds. Maybe those will come. In the meantime, the subtext of the announcement seems to be "these concerns are overblown, as they were stoked by foreign agents". Not that I agree with it, but that seems to be their message. Reply
phead128 Even toms reported on this a day ago: AI is set to consume up to 600 billion gallons of water by 2030 — rising energy consumption primarily to blame as data center power demands riseo-blame-as-data-center-power-demands-rise Propagandist outlet confirmed!! /s Reply
nookoool A random Chinese nationalist trolling or just spewing uncomfortable facts is always written as state covert operation by western media lol. I guess the interesting thing is that they fingerprint ai generated graphics c and actively run surveillance on it or actively monitor content being generated (??). Ask uncomfortable questions about the country and you get autoflagged? Reply
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