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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by neutronicus on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:03AM (#43423637)
"Making money" is only a relevant goal when you need money to persuade humans to do things for you.

Once you have an army of robot slaves ... you've rendered the whole concept of money irrelevant. Your skynet just barters rare earth metals with other skynets and your robot slaves furnish your desired lifestyle as best they can given the amount of rare earth metals your skynet can get its hands on. Or maybe a better skynet / slave army kills your skynet / slave army, but tough tits, sucks to be you and rules to be whoever's skynet killed yours.

Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by sambull on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:14AM (#43423823)
Good thing AI for now needs power, water and a place to exchange heat. Our version of womp rats if it goes to far I guess.
Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by neutronicus on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:19AM (#43423899)
That's part of the "rare earth metals" synecdoche - hydroelectric dams, thorium mines, great lakes heat sinks - they're all things for skynets to kill or barter for as expedient