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    10 hours ago

    Personally, in this paragraph:

    The technology isn’t going anywhere, when the bubble pops and hardware prices come down, local open weight models will be sufficient and the hardware to run them will be cheaper than cloud models.

    I honestly believe that the AI hype is just the justification for the price hikes on hardware, the point is removing access to capable hardware for all of us so that they can have most, if not all, control over the population.

    I certainly hope you’re right, but all signs say otherwise, in my opinion anyway.

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        6 hours ago

        That may very well be the case. Now, is it really a conspiracy when everything points to it, or is it a justified suspicion?

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          6 hours ago

          Conspiracies exist. Many are well documented, or at least documented enough to call out specific people for specific behavior.

          A conspiracy mindset ignores those, and instead suspects conspiracy everywhere else, and usually without substantial evidence. Easy instances are detectable when the sentence goes they do something to harm us in a vaguely related way.

          The latter is all over YouTube, and what influencers make money with. The former is sometimes reposted on YouTube after some journalists publish it in a serious media outlet.