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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by skywhopper on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:49AM (#42550982)
They don’t. They are wasting their resources and other people’s resources because at the moment they have essentially unlimited cash to burn burn burn.
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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by throwaway_fai on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:44PM (#42551574)
Keep in mind too, for a lot of people pushing this stuff, there's an essentially religious motivation that's more important to them than money. They truly think it's incumbent on them to build God in the form of an AI superintelligence, and they truly think that's where this path leads.

Yet another reminder that there are plenty of very smart people who are, simultaneously, very stupid.

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