I wouldn’t mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy. So long also as we are able to continually access said digital copies. We wouldn’t be having this physical vs digital debate going on for so long, if the practices of what companies like Sony and other media companies have been going about with handling digitally purchased content.
It’s a very stupid easy of a solution that has been continually fumbled time and time again. Because greed got in the way.
AI in general, IMO it’s actually a very useful tool, Had it not been shoved into everything that makes no sense to… if we didn’t have an absurd amount of companies trying to make “frontier models” that require carpeting the country in data centers, If we put more focus on… self run AIs where people could train it on their own stuff, in their own environment, without leading into a dependency on outside cloud resources.
US is basically doing the cellular race all over again, except on something so much more stupidly environmentally destructive and expensive.
(IE when the cellular race went on, we had basically 8 or so companies building towers that only were compatible with their own networks… rather than just making the towers public infrastructure and allowing providers to compete with 1 array of towers, instead of everyone making their own).
People who knew me were shocked I was against AI since it seemed right up my alley. Imo it should have remained one of those niche tech tools scattered across a couple githubs requiring you to build from source and self host. Not some garbage slop generator trying to appeal to the general consumer.
Building on that, just having the LLMs stick to data crunching or software troubleshooting or medical scanning woulda been enough, but since techbros insisted it’s gotta make art or do other tasks that people actually like doing, anything with a script that covers a lot of data has been ruined forever
it wasnt good for medical scans either, they had to use so much painstaking scans from different patients, and reviews multiple times by Radiologists, they got lucky. plus the issue with it patients getting potentially a fake diagnosis from the AI is too high anyways, and the insurance likely doesnt want to pay for an expensive mistake(chemo for a non-disease)_
Well we now have like dozens of mobile phone companies who are subsidiaries of parent companies who have companies that somehow own even parent companies. It’s a mess but that whole ordeal still goes on and it’s such a bigger mess than before. I would’ve preferred it if we were down to 8 or less companies, provided they’re not monopolistic.