WarmWash

So is piracy good or bad?

Intelligence is an arbitrary term humans assign to stuff subjectively.

Take out the "human" and it's all just algos on a scale of complexity.

Can't wait to only be able to stream 240p

When that happens burn the chat and make another one.

Those providers don't have the compute to meaningfully undercut the private labs.

The reason it's so cheap is because they have compute sitting idle. Meanwhile the big players are rate limiting, using quotas, and keep prices high to keep enough compute available to meet demand.

I feel very confident making the assertion that if you work a white collar job, and cannot find $200/mo worth of value in the current crop of SOTA models/agents, you probably don't actually know how to wield their abilities.

For those who do, the models could be worth upwards of $5,000 month easy.

The depth of the current bubble extends way beyond a handful of nameplate AI companies.

The insane spending has effectively been acting as a nationwide stimulus for construction, the trades, hardware feeders, electronics companies, energy companies and then the downstream effects of the affluent class ("The 25%") spending more as they see their investments grow.

The economy is a net, not a whack-a-mole.

Anthropic, OAI, Meta, xXSpaceXAIXx all will need to put ads in their free models at some point. Google of course will too.

There is no future timeline where people are giving away compute for free. Right now we are still in the "Get them hooked" phase.

I can only imagine it's a small slice of users that are skipping the first party API's of the big labs to use openrouter instead.

I thought you were referring to Dems adopting an anti-datacenter stance.

A clamp on down on DC construction would basically slam the current economy into a wall.

Lots of people celebrate that as being some kind of end of AI, but it wouldn't be, it would ultimately just throw gas on the fire of "we need to cut heads, figure out how to get AI to leverage your productivity".

I had an account for 14 years with no issues, and it seems ever since the pandemic, I was just racking up bans left and right, even a 3 day site wide ban once. Decided to leave not long after that

Unfortunately their best friend is pretty strong.

The killer with exercise is that it makes you hungry, proportionally to how hard you worked out.

It's a real killer for "calorie blind" people to go on a 750 calorie hike, and then stop by for a "treat" on the way home. That treat being a 500 calorie blueberry muffin with 200 calories of butter on it. Then they go home and have dinner.

Pirated content can run on a $20 computer.

SOTA open models need tens of thousands of dollars worth of hardware to run.

I get your analogy, and it feels right, but the compute requirements to run these models are extreme. That analogy falls apart when it necessitates having a corporate 3rd party run the models for you. They will not tolerate breaking laws.

If China says no more, then the best the masses are gonna get on their high-end setups are the 30B class models. Which are decent, but not "hack my bank", errr, "protect our bank" decent.

Piracy flourished because you only need an operating laptop to participate. LLMs you need a server rack of GPUs to participate.

The score will tell you that you do need to worry about lifestyle.

Whether or not people actually follow through is another story. There weren't any cigarette smokers who didn't know how bad it was for them...