supchlo

@supchlo.bsky.social

Everyone’s a critic, especially me

I feel insane like just 6 months ago we discovered that the rich and powerful were casually engaging in human/sex trafficking and none of these people have been [redacted].

"The greatest lie of this era is that the tech industry is building the next industrial revolution, when what they’re actually building is a monument to everything that’s wrong with modern capitalism." And that's it. ∎

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · yesterday

OpenAI and Anthropic are time bombs at the heart of the AI industry, which is why hyperscalers and NVIDIA continue to prop them up. Without them, hyperscaler revenue growth stalls, and the entire con collapses. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/

To put things really simply, Anthropic and OpenAI are a way that hyperscalers can feed their revenue to themselves by spending money on capex, backstopping compute contracts, or doing direct equity investments. 

Their continued existence allows the AI bubble to continue inflating, but this can only continue as long as venture capital and hyperscalers are capable or willing to invest. There is simply not the demand — not from open source, not from other AI labs, not from self-hosting, not from anywhere — to justify the capex or the massive data center buildout.

And for those arguing that there would be a dot-com bubble recovery story, I must be clear that if there isn’t demand today, it won’t magically appear tomorrow. AI GPUs will cost just as much to run in five years as they do today, as will unfinished data centers cost just as much to finish, as will electricity remain expensive, and all this will be happening after it’s easy to raise venture capital to actually buy the compute. 

To quote my buddy Kasey, every major cloud compute provider is solely standing on OpenAI and Anthropic. 

OpenAI and Anthropic are time bombs, and when either of them explodes, everybody will ask why we didn’t see the brutality that follows coming.

The truth is that nobody wanted to look.

Yeah shit shouldn’t be possible & this alone is enough reason for people to take a bat to these fucking things. If your local police department still believes these cameras have value you should immediately look into what that department is doing with those cameras bc they’re admitting to doing it.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...