@HawgMedia@TheWapplehouse The LAPD is already getting almost a quarter of all the money the city is spending. Why the fuck would they need even more for their structural incompetence. Its not like incidents like this are new or rare.
@gremloe Entirely self inflicted seems a bit reductive, its slightly more complext than that. Having said that, mostly yes. And the backlash into incel/anti women retoric is making it a lot worse for all of us.
@ClaireMax Oh god. Is this the next chapter of the "It has a female character I personally can't jack off to so now I'm mad" saga? *sigh* People are a mistake.
@ForzaHorizon I truly, deeply love the FH series, I bought a whole Fanatec setup for it. But please, if you keep letting the AI be vibe coded by interns, at least get 4th year college students from a relevant field, not high school freshmen.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.