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but does that mean that Facebook all along never cared about things like domestic violence, racial equality, and stuff?

wow! this is a really generous community contribution by the BBC.

so where is all this productivity that we are supposed to be getting from AI? I'm struggling to see it in my business or my personal life.

totally agree (make that N=2). Almost nothing can be trusted anymore to an engineering team that will not result in it being implemented AWS/Azure/etc. More than ever we have incredible processors, loads of memory and storage and bandwidth, that allow us to do insane stuff within the confines of a single machine, but no! we want to go serverless everthing.

For many, many applications than can be deployed on a single server, AWS introduces the potential of uncontrollable lifetime costs, more threat vectors, vastly increased vendor lockin, lower performance....

AWS and their ilk are like cults now. Okay! need to stop