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Being more educated doesn’t make llms more useful. Being less educated doesn’t make them less fun.
Problem with them is the magnitude of the push vs their usefulness. There was no need for that massive of scaling. It’s all “we must get all the investor money before we have to raise prices to become profitable”.
If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.
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The rich are also more educated. Lemmy hates AI, but other upper-middle-class types might just see it as a big box full of cool technology.
To plumbers and cashiers, it’s more of a new-fangled abomination we don’t need.
Being more educated doesn’t make llms more useful. Being less educated doesn’t make them less fun.
Problem with them is the magnitude of the push vs their usefulness. There was no need for that massive of scaling. It’s all “we must get all the investor money before we have to raise prices to become profitable”.
If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.
Also, poor people are likely to already encounter a massive polluter or nuisance being dropped around there for no benefit to them.
Great, they should build them in those neighborhoods.
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It might also be the kind of data center that is being built. Cheaper data centers are noisier, inefficient with water, etc
Working class areas may already be distrustful towards large companies coming along and using up all of the local resources