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  • Consider the perspective of the average person: who is gaining value from AI in its current form? It sure as hell isn’t us.

    Ah yeah, the millions of people using it to generate images, generate summaries, translate documents, clean up photos etcetcetc are getting no value from it at all 🙄

    Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month.

    edit: why am I having this discussion, if you don’t like AI feel free to go literally anywhere else on Lemmy












  • If capitalism were as innovative as they make out

    Why does this rub me up the wrong way? We literally live in an age of miracles, I have unlimited visual and audio based entertainment on Youtube, I have access to all of mankinds music on Spotify, the phone in your pocket is a trillion times more powerful than we used to send man to the moon, I am typing a message that will be read by multiple people on the other side of the world instantly, this used to take months and was written with pen and paper and before that it just didn’t happen, you would only communicate with the people within your village, work on a farm, and then die. In 2025 communist North Korea this is pretty much still the case.

    The screen you’re looking at is most likely LED, which itself is a miracle

    This man changed your life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura

    How Blue LEDs Changed the World

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idwKHQEw78g

    There are thousands of these in your life which you interact with daily and won’t even realise

    Plastic is a miracle, it has nearly infinite uses and capabilities, it is used nearly everywhere because it is so good, if it was an individual product it would be one of the best selling items of all time.

    We’re working on biodegradable plastic and other replacements, sooner or later we’ll get there

    Still true today: Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U









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    You’re 100% right to be concerned and to be honest I have doubts lemmy will ever crack more than a few million users, the same thing happened with Mastodon, something that relies so heavily on volunteers running the infra almost inevitably results in burnout because the fediverse works on a disincentive basis:

    Basically the more popular a server is, the more funding it requires, the more admins it requires, the more work it requires, and all of this is on a slim margins or more likely requiring on people to donate time/money/effort ‘for free’ is a huge ask.

    The supply of people sitting around doing nothing all day who care enough to dedicate their time/effort/money to running a social network… for free… is a very small group, almost as small as the amount of people who are willing to donate every month to a social network.

    You can find mods of communities are usually fans of the communities they mod, it’s a topic they enjoy and so the incentive for them to invest their time is to keep their community clean and great. But running a social network which has hard costs not just time is a whole other thing

    This is opposed to a regular website or social media network, where as it gets bigger, it makes more money through ads/subscriptions, the incentive is to get bigger to make more money

    And then they can simply pay people to do the shit no one wants to.

    The reality for me is that the money has to come from somewhere, you can do a paywall like newspapers do or beg for donations every page visit like the guardian/wikipedia do, or the usual suspect allow advertising, but the money has to come from somewhere.

    Thus the fediverse has a disincentive to growing larger, it is simply easier and more sustainable to remain small






















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