I don’t think it’s fair to show the entire world burning because of several issues that are very unique to the US. This is highly US-centric.

I’d imagine because AI in China isn’t a massive for-profit cult propped up by technofascists with speculative values greater than the combined GDP of entire countries who have basically seized political power and are now running amok.

China is many things but they are not stupid. Handling AI the way the west has would be an extreme threat to their own authority and control.

E-waste.

Goddamn Dell of all companies is the only one that seems to get it. I’m shocked.

Welcome to the world outside of your own ass, Dell. The air is fresher out here.

3D artist here. I am active on numerous art websites, including DeviantArt and Cara.

I joined Cara quite a bit later than everyone else so I can’t give too much commentary on it yet, but I will say that it is very much not dead. It certainly has an active and growing community, but it is still a niche site so don’t go in there expecting it to be the next Twitter in terms of userbase size.

DeviantArt, on the other hand, is quite a bit more unfortunate. It actually has a rather sizeable community still but the heartbreaking part is watching the owners systematically sabotage it. Nearly everything they’ve done in the past several years has been catered towards driving AI use/growth while letting every other part of the site fester and rot. I don’t share my DA profile with clients or family members because if they click off my profile there is an extremely high chance they will be hit by a wall of untagged fetish porn and AI slop that will never be tagged despite the ToS requiring such.

Just a few months ago DA removed their official app from mobile app stores for some reason and it became very clear that that was how many users engaged with the platform. Myself and many other artists on DA noticed a very sudden and very large downturn in user engagement and views. They also made some back-end algorithm changes that made this even worse but they have never confirmed that and I doubt they ever will. Membership subs basically exist just to give you extra AI prompt credits and cloud storage space and maybe better selling rates assuming you actually sell anything. The other features, like boosts, have been broken for months now.

Platforms come and go over the years but DA should go down in history as the one that turned to their core userbase, the very people that built them and funded them for so many years - and punched them right in the goddamn face.

Got a 4b running Pihole and Tailscale. Love it

I wonder if we’ll see a shift towards graphical stagnation with upcoming game releases. With RAM and GPUs being so expensive, there will be a lot fewer customers that can afford the hardware to play upcoming, graphically-demanding games and so targeting that demographic is economically unwise.

It sucks that this is the situation we find ourselves in, but I’m actually kind of interested in what will happen. A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.

While China sees AI as another tool for controlling its populace, the United States is rushing to create AI that will give it global economic dominance.

Spoiler: The US wants that too, or at least the ruling technofascist elite do.

Often the people that buy those tiers of computers don’t know enough about memory to know how limited they’d be.

You don’t. Mandatory crunch produces a mediocre result and drives away your hired talent.

Now is a great time to invest some time and effort into offline hobbies, whether they be on your computer or otherwise. Limiting or eliminating your time online these days is just a straight net gain for your mental health, especially if you can fill that gap with some other fulfilling activity.

As soon as I see someone start a sentence with: “So I asked ChatGPT,” I know I can basically disregard whatever it is they’re about to say.

It is incredible how well this works and how well it has worked for hundreds of years.

Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.

Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.

Microsoft has gone all-in on AI to the detriment of basically every other aspect of their business. They are in deep deep shit when the bubble finally pops.

I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.

Paradox really needs a management shakeup.

So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.