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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 6h

They have learned nothing.

Obama's shabby presidency looks worse by the day. At least we can hope Biden's aggressive cancer is resistant to treatment, and thus we'll be free of ever hearing from him again very soon.

But Obama and his unemployed wife? They'll be around **forever.**

Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 9h

It's "horny guys chatting with what they think is the OnlyFans model they pay a subscription to."

That's it, that's the entirety of the use case. And I guarantee it's already discreetly deployed to great effect.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 9h

The problem here is "what is the use case?"

Well the use case, I guarantee you, has already been solved: it's chatbots trained to mimic OnlyFans models speech patterns so they may be used to provide the simulation of interaction with female content creators.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 10h

There are tons of devs "building" with OpenAI, Brian.

We are in the early days of a revolution and these models are only improving by the day.

How do you not see this? Why do you hate progress so much?

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 12h

Completely normal that the president of the United States is a dementia-addled geriatric who just rambles on his vacant social platform all day, every day, about whatever it is that comes into his head.

This is unremarkable and not at all dangerous.

Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 13h

I'm at the point I just hate it all and want to let it burn to the ground.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 13h

It's fascinating how we've raised an entire generation of young men to be a particular kind of aggressive dumbshit.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 16h

"[T]his is the big bet that AI companies are making right now. That our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we won’t even care when our feeds start filling up with slop."

This has always been my fear.

The Great Dumbening

Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

www.garbageday.email

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 17h

Neither of us lament the demise of legacy media, but what worries me are the lobotomized chuds who'll still consume legacy outlet content without realizing it's now just right wing propaganda + corporate PR.

Like the grandmas who think Time, Newsweek, and CBS are still legit outlets.

Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 18h

The real thrust of enterprise adoption was always the often-unsaid idea that "you, Mr Manager,* will shortly be able to fire all your employees and replace them with digital slaves."

*Gendered language used intentionally, female execs are generally smarter than this.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 18h

The only factoids you need to know about OpenAI:

~20MM paying ChatGPT subscribers
~5MM enterprise customers
~300MM+ non-subscribers consuming massive amounts of compute for free

OpenAI is a restaurant where only a trifling fraction of customers pay for their dinner.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Yeah it's that simple: OpenAI needs to build 3GW of data center capacity, which will cost over $100bn, and they need to do so in around a year. All three of these deals are based on unreleased chips too. Where the hell is the press on this?
bsky.app/profile/hors...

Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 1d

Eventually somebody has to actually get paid with these endless IOUs circulating, right? All these companies are being paid in fake scrip, but like, the rest of the world deals in real money, not Altman Farts. When does this stop?

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 18h

"What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?"

Sure, Jan. We're still dependent on transformers, a technology invented in 2017, with nothing on the horizon.

It's fascinating how we're in an era of stagnation, and have been for quite some time, but endlessly pretend otherwise.

Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear

What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?

importai.substack.com

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 18h

This Potemkin company is just beyond belief.

We need more people than just Zitron critically engaging with what's going on here.

OpenAI and Broadcom announce strategic collaboration to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators

Multi-year partnership enables OpenAI and Broadcom to deliver accelerator and network systems for next-generation AI clusters.

openai.com

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the lower level people, if pushed, would be meat for the rubes.

Buckle in, the next decade will be worst than the last.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

Right? I know we both agree, but could you imagine them even trying to prosecute anyone? Not gonna happen.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

We'll go from Reaganite policy under the Newsom/Buttegieg administration, to fascism and labor camps under the gentle tutelage of President Marjorie Taylor Greene.

There's no way the party continues to win as the party of neoliberal austerity, but no way those in charge will give up an iota power.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

The bigger issue is they are a party of soulless, amoral goons who do nothing.

Elect a Dem. in 2028 and they'll manage things just well enough to ensure that another fascist from the right wins the next cycle.

There's no way they'd do what is necessary, which is structural change.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

Unless there is a wholesale revolution inside the party, no one is coming out for these people anymore.

Even AOC here seems allergic to actually doing anything.

The party has changed none of its stances, none of its tactics, why would anyone give them power?

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to put into words how much I hope treatment of this man's aggressive cancer is unsuccessful.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but the dwindling number of braindead geriatrics who watch CBS News will believe whatever is spoon fed to them, so does it really matter?

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, to leverage one's class privilege....

Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

Robo-cat was custom animation Benioff paid good money for, have some respect.

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

I know I've been negative on this "revolution" for ages -- and I know that my constant killjoy cries of "but what is the actual value of a text generator?" fall of deaf ears -- but it's past time for these people to show their work.

What have you built with all those MCP servers? Show us!

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 1d

This has been clear for so long.

As has the increasing desperation to get devs "building" with the various frameworks that seem to come out daily.

What are they "building?" No one really knows because, years into this revolution, they've not built one truly successful app.

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

The Information confirming what most of us already seemed to get a handle on -- "AI" has been profitable for only the chip manufacturers, and the circular network of cloud providers.

www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-...

Meanwhile, we’ve seen precious little evidence that AI is a profitable business for those using the servers to sell AI apps or those developing AI models. The cost of AI models weighs on all AI-powered applications, although those costs have come down over time. Coding assistants, for instance, aren’t exactly high margin. We’d bet that’s true of other AI apps, whether they’re run by big companies or startups, although we don’t really know. Few of the big public companies have said much about the revenue they’re getting from AI apps, let alone the profits.

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