Trump BREAKS Major Promise As Data Center Disaster Gets Spectacularly Worse

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Turks segment (link…)

On the money, Turks, for suggesting here how to handle AI tech monopolies!

AI monopolies are:

  • seeking to evade legal liability by assigning agency to AI software, as opposed to the companies making and selling it; and

  • seeking corporate welfare for these data centers on the dime of voters/taxpayers. “The benefits will trickle down to our community! You don’t want to miss out on this gamechanging tech, do you??” BULLSHIT. The benefits will go to the tech monopolies; Data centers are a subscription model dependency loop. If these monopolists want to gamble on a failed business model, we have to let them (this is where I disagree with Sanders and AOC…) But they need their knuckles rapped each time they try and bribe politicos for corporate welfare!

    Of course, if we had a REAL capitalist economy, we would have an active DOJ breaking up these guys! But that’s not in the cards anytime soon. Maybe someday, if we are not left with a pile of ashes thanks to Trump and his Repub enablers (not that every Repub is an enabler of him; hopefully we will see that change more before the midterms…)

I did not like the Sanders+AOC approach of unconditionally vilifying AI, since it is causing disruptions in the labor markets. The FACT is: AI canNOT replace much of what intelligent tasks there are; but by vilifying it as being successful at doing that, it is giving credibility to all the AI slop!

Yes: clearly there are disruptions in labor at the moment caused by AI. But that is being done by either:

  • patent lies that layoffs were caused by it. No -layoffs are being caused by a disastrous Trump economy. Companies do NOT want to admit that; so they use AI as an excuse for the layoffs, to conceal their economic failure (which to admit to such would scare people out of investing any further in them…)

  • companies jumping the gun on AI layoffs before the tech is proven out (then they later have to rehire techs!) Salesforce is one such company that made that error.

AI merits investigation; it can assist in auditing things. But just like Duvall in Apocalypse Now said about Charlie and surfing: “AI don’t code!” I don’t care how many times AI monopolies and their paid shills insist it can. I will be here to point out it cannot. It can only ape.

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“Charlie don’t surf!” (link…)

Using AI to code, as opposed to check, one will end up with code that is unmaintainable and has “Welcome to Carl’s” lurking in it…

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Idiocracy: Welcome to Carl’s (link…)

FANtastic! We didn’t have to pay for a trained and skilled worker to implement the code!!

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“Save us, Tech Monopolies!”

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Tucker Debates Mr. Wonderful (link…)

Hilarious.

We will have wars without having to expend flesh??

If you don’t do this, the Chinese will??

He claims AI pushback is like Internet adoption pushback in the 90s? WHO THE FUCK WAS PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE INTERNET IN THE 90S?! We were all going: hallelujah! An end to cable with nothing but informercials!!

Wonderful makes the argument that the reason for the tax breaks/corporate welfare is the old Reagan one: trickle down. The industry has not shown data centers lead to significant job creation in the locales where they are situated -LET ALONE if they produce a service that is unique and sought after.

“SHOW ME THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI!”

Most of the AI companies have heisted their knowledge from copyrighted materials -and now they want to be sports and sell it back to us? Fuck That Shit! If they want to play that game, they’re welcome to try; I know they will fail. But fuck any corporate welfare. [Sanders and his tech advisors doesn’t even want to allow them to fail -but prohibiting what you believe to be a bad business model can lead to some bad places; you can unintentionally impose another bad business model on a sector doing that managed economy thing -besides getting people to acquire the mistaken notion the AI monopolies have some hot shit going on, which is exactly what they would like!]

I”ll repeat again: AI can audit; it can augment; it can assist human thinking.

AI canNOT code CREATIVELY and RELIABLY and make a product that is cost-effective to MAINTAIN, It can only ape components it has seen and throw them together with Dobbs-knows-what consequences.

Most of the leadership at AI ventures (Nadella, Altman, Musk, …) do not code proficiently; they have NO idea whatsoever as to what is required. They are receiving advice from parties who have an overwhelming personal profit bias to say what will keep them in the nines.

The irony of the data center model is that it is exactly predicated on a prehistoric 1950s plan from IBM before the personal computer appeared (in the 1970s, which we got thanks to JFK’s space program push -a small computer was needed to fit on a rocket…) IBM had hoped to have mainframes analogously working as data centers, and people would subscribe to them from their homes with “dumb terminals”. So presently we have autonomous computing, we can self-host our own AI, aggregate our own info, and subscribe to competing data services and models -and the tech monopolies want us to surrender those autonomous capabilities for data enslavement?!?!?! We foot a subscription cost, as opposed to when we have/had a computing device for which we decide on the purchase of products based on whether a new version merits payment? AND foot their bills to boot for data centers??

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If AI was really some indispensable tech, I could see an argument for nurturing it as an economic resource. But with DeepSeek (by the Chinese…), that argument was upended. Even the latest Mythos model (from Anthropic…), which supposedly finds code exploits (an exact use case I have been arguing for AI!) -I’m not seeing ANY benchmark data on it compared to classical algorithmic code scanning tools. And look at that -we can’t access it to vet that! Has an unbiased and qualified third party (like Ars Technica…) signed an NDA and performed a benchmark on it compared to classical code auditing tools? Would the players in the AI bubble not be crazy about an analysis of the performance and costs of such a comparison?? I think so!

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Breaking Points: AI Town Experiment Goes DOWN IN FLAMES (link…)

I notice Enjetti was absent from the panel. He has been an unabashed stumper on Breaking Points for AI (among other poor issues…) I remember him and Crystal covering AI issues months ago and he would be spouting its inevitably and how he was all over the tech (with the classic smug venture capitalist smile: “You guys just don’t get it!”), and Crystal would have a “Gosh, I guess so…” response. Watching her reactions on this panel, I can see she now gets [the way it is presently marketed] is a colossal hype scam.

The panel ruminates on the fact that Chinese polling is more favorable to use of AI by the State, whereas US polling reflects distrust of the State.

I doubt that cultural trust by the Chinese is all that well-founded!