The Ellison trying to buy WB was the younger one.

I didn't actually specify which Ellison. But we could say the Ellison clan to be inclusive.

It’s all based on elder Ellison’s power and money.

The most likely outcome is kids in third world countries extracting the valuable metals from piles of discarded GPUs.

After GPU crypto mining became unprofitable Chinese manufacturers took "mining only" cards, desoldered the GPU and built new graphics cards using the chips. So at least the lower end stuff (RTX6000) could be repurposed like that.

Their risks are none. They are not increasing capacity, only selling the available one to the highest bidder. Whenever these AI companies run out of money, these producers can simply resume their regular business.

It only depends on whether they get addicted to the high prices.. as long as they can withstand a collapse in the prices then you're right they have minimal risk

Assuming they haven't massively changed operations to crank up supply, which seems to be the case, they shouldn't be massively hurt with a price drop.

If this price goes on for a longer period though, I assume that won't be the case.

Well an example would be if they for example took out massive debts on the back of an expected Revenue stream

Not sure about DRAM companies, but many businesses would still go under if they sold their annual production to a company that then goes bankrupt and won't pay anything for the delivered goods.

Hopefully they get paid more than once a year. Their risk is completely dependent on 1. the net X days until they are paid, and 2. How fast they delay shipment when/if a payment is delayed.

e.g. dotcom DSL and CLEC providers, https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/dsl-providers-droppin...

Everything is prepaid, just like you buy RAM online.

Given that we have shows on the state broadcaster which criticise the government, there truly isn't a shadowy force supressing it amongst the population.

There is also the fact that automatically generated content predates ChatGPT by a lot. By around 2020 most Google searches already returned lots of SEO-optimized pages made from scrapped content or keyword soups made by rudimentary language models or markov chains.

Well there's also the fact that GPT-3 API was released in June 2020 and its writing capabilities were essentially on par with ChatGPT initial release. It was just a bit harder to use, because it wasn't yet trained to follow instructions, it only worked as a very good "autocomplete" model, so prompting was a bit "different" and you couldn't do stuff like "rewrite this existing article in your own words" at all, but if you just wanted to write some bullshit SEO spam from scratch it was already as good as ChatGPT would be 2 years later.

Also the full release of GPT-2 in late 2019. While GPT-2 wasn't really "good" at writing, it was more than good enough to make SEO spam

I didn't remember that, but it would explain the spam exponential grow back then.

And 10 years ago, Reddit was already experimenting with auto-generated subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator.

It was popular way before 2020 but Google managed to keep up with SEO tricks for good decade+ before. Guess it got to breaking point.

You still need someone to check the grades. AI can and will totally misgrade.

Why would it be their responsibility to succeed at topics in the fediverse more than it's your responsibility?

So which topics did you fail/refuse to crack down on the fediverse @Maken?

I personally failed to push harder for DIDs so switching servers without losing followers is easier.

That sounds like they want to subsidize the coal industry. AI is just the excuse.

Every time you update? How about Maps asking if you want to use advanced location every time you open it?

Maybe they are trying to make people use their API while they build an actual inference infrastructure behind?