The mining is also usually a really polluting affair for the region, much more than the what power generation might suggest. And overall, in many countries there is a lot of subsidies going on for hidden costs, especially relating to the waste and initial construction. So it is not as cheap as a first look might suggest.

I’m not against it per se, it is better than fossil fuels, which simply is the more urgent matter, but it’s never been the wonder technology it has been touted as ever since it first appeared.

“If the RIAA sued hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

You’ve got a great point there, actually

That’s what I suspect, too, but I’m not entirely sure in my research so far. The question I am still unsure about: Is it as costly in running, or is the real costly part “just” the “training our model” part? I wondered that, because when I was messing around, things like generative text models could run on my potato PC with a bit of python scripting without too much issue, even if not ideally - as long as I had the already trained dataset downloaded.

I think it will hinge on one thing: Will AI provide an experience that is maybe worse, but still sufficient to keep the market share, at lower cost than putting in the proper effort? If so, it might still become a tragic “success”-story.

Ah, sad, thank you for researching! Here’s hoping it will come back in some form.

I can imagine that all too well, Springer is infamous in Germany - they publish the, unfortunately, best-selling tabloid newspaper in Europe, BILD, which was at one time summed up perfectly by a German punk band as “fear, hate, tits and the weather report”, and leads every statistic in getting reprimanded for false and unethical reporting and harassing people to obtain scandalous stories. They have been at it for generations by now, too. To quote Wikipedia, which summed it up better than I could:

[it] was blamed by some for the climate that contributed to the assassination attempt on activist Rudi Dutschke in 1968—a popular catchphrase in left-wing circles sympathetic to student radicalism was “Bild hat mitgeschossen!” (“Bild shot at him too!”).

For their upper class readers, they have “Die Welt”, which is basically factual and respected, but heavily slanted in favour of conservatism, basically the same you describe in your comment.

I’m floored, only in this article I learned that they are owned by Axel Springer, basically the most despicable media company in Germany. I agree, fuck them.

It’s pretty telling a platform like YouTube really only gets fully enjoyable with an adblocker, sponsorblock and this. I wish PeerTube had a lot of good creators, but last time I checked (years ago, admittedly) it was mostly conspiracy theorists and cryptobros.