“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”
AI increases my power utility bill
AI takes my water
AI increases the price of GPUs
AI increases the price of RAM
AI makes my search results worse and slower
AI is inserted into every website, app, program, and service making them all worse
All so businesses and companies can increase productivity, reduce staff, and then turn around and increase prices to customers.
Isn’t capitalism a blast?
Right, what you said, but I’d remove the part where it increases productivity.
It’s a win-win with staff layoffs. Businesses that want to lay people off have a convenient scapegoat and AI companies receive undeserved praise.
A win-win for everyone but the employees, of course.
Seriously. The amount of time spent handholding the AIs no one asked to use more than offsets any supposed productivity gains.
Yeah I am beyond ready for the next new fad.