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[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Everyone's memeing but it looks grim.

Having AI turn into an arms race between China and the U.S. will only accelerate its growth. For a while it looked like AI was stagnating, the bubble might burst, and people were tempering their expectations of what we had. That just got thrown out the window. I can't think of any way you could damage the competitiveness of what China is offering, so U.S. tech now have to improve and there will probably be greater support from the U.S. government to see that improvement.

People simply don't win in the long term when these improvements will go towards taking their jobs.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Assuming that poster is from the US, it is amazing that he calls another country a "cop state".

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Are the robbers and thieves now infighting?

NOICE!

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[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 18 hours ago

He says they're faking the low cost, but it's open source. You can download and run it yourself.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 16 points 20 hours ago

THEY'RE DAMAGING AI COMPETITIVENESS BY COMPETING AGAINST OUR AI WITH THEIR AI!!!!

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

free market capitalist when a new competitor enters the market who happens to be foreign: noooooo this is economic warfare!!!!!

My mom is Sally and ready to brown it

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[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

We literally are at the stage where when someone says: “this is a psyop” then that is the psyop. When someone says: “these drag queens are groomers” they are the groomers. When someone says: “the establishment wants to keep you stupid and poor” they are the establishment who want to keep you stupid and poor.

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

AI is either a solution in search of a problem,

or it's the next scheme designed to gobble up as much VC money as possible and boost NVIDIA stock value, now that the Cryptocurrency bubble has passed.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

We have been at this stage at least since the cold war my friend. Every accusation is an admission. They cannot allow the people at large to imagine a world without the evils incentivised by capitalism.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's so important to realize that most of "the establishment" are the pawns who are just as guilty. Thank you.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Also "The establishment" when used in accusations can be replaced by "Rich bastards and right-wingers" and the accusations are usually spot on. Child abuse, sexual assault, market manipulation, bribery, always checks out perfectly.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I wasn't under the impression American AI was profitable either. I thought it was held up by VC funding and over valued stock. I may be wrong though. Haven't done a deep dive on it.

Okay, I literally didn't even post the comment yet and did the most shallow of dives. Open AI is not profitable. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-this-year-on-3point7-billion-in-revenue.html

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haven't done a deep dive on it.

deep seek you mean?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

👉😎👉

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

The CEO said on twitter that even their $200/month pro plan was losing money on every customer: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pricey-chatgpt-pro-plan-ceo-sam-altman-says/

I don't see how they would become profitable any time soon if their costs are that high. Maybe if they adapt the innovations of deepseek to their own model.

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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So this guy is just going to pretend that all of these AI startups in thee US offering tokens at a fraction of what they should be in order to break-even (let alone make a profit) are not doing the exact same thing?

Every prompt everyone makes is subsidized by investors’ money. These companies do not make sense, they are speculative and everyone is hoping to get their own respective unicorn and cash out before the bill comes due.

My company grabbed 7200 tokens (min of footage) on Opus for like $400. Even if 90% of what it turns out for us is useless it’s still a steal. There is no way they are making money on this. It’s not sustainable. Either they need to lower the cost to generate their slop (which deep think could help guide!) or they need to charge 10x what they do. They’re doing the user acquisition strategy of social media and it’s absurd.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why is everyone making this about a U.S. vs. China thing and not an LLMs suck and we should not be in favor of them anywhere thing?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (38 children)

We just don't follow the dogma "AI bad".

I use LLM regularly as a coding aid. And it works fine. Yesterday I had to put a math formula on code. My math knowledge is somehow rusty. So I just pasted the formula on the LLM, asked for an explanation and an example on how to put it in code. It worked perfectly, it was just right. I understood the formula and could proceed with the code.

The whole process took seconds. If I had to go down the rabbit hole of searching until I figured out the math formula by myself it could have maybe a couple of hours.

It's just a tool. Properly used it's useful.

And don't try to bit me with the AI bad for environment. Because I stopped traveling abroad by plane more than a decade ago to reduce my carbon emissions. If regular people want to reduce their carbon footprint the first step is giving up vacations on far away places. I have run LLMs locally and the energy consumption is similar to gaming, so there's not a case to be made there, imho.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Changing your diet is more impactful than stopping international travel.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm going to fact check you, and you are not going to like it. But I hope you are able to learn instead of keeping yourself in a dogma.

Let's assume only one international flight per year. 12 hours. Times 2 as you have to come back . So 24 hours in a plane.

A plane emits 250 Kg of CO2 by passenger by hour. Total product is 250x24. Which equals 6 tons of CO2 emited by one international travel.

Now we go with diet. I only eat chicken and pork (beef is expensive). My country average is 100Kg of meat per person per year. Pork production takes 12 Kg of CO2 per Kg of meat. Chicken is 10, so I will average at 11 Kg. 11Kg of CO2 multiplies by 100Kg eaten makes 1.1 tons of CO2.

6 is greater than 1.1. about 6 times greater give it or take.

So my decision of not doing international travel saves 6 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere per travel. While if I would completely take the meat I eat from my diet I would only reduce 1.1 ton of CO2 per year.

Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-eating-meat-bad-for-the-environment/a-63595148 https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I still think the numbers will be skewed heavily by those that travel internationally 0 times per year, but I think your math is accurate from what I can tell. Essentially, less air travel is good if you regularly travel, otherwise not so much.

How's the math turn out if people use alternate means of travel? Is traveling by boat still a thing?

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"ai bad" is obviously stupid.

Current LLM bad is very true. The method used to create is immoral, and are arguably illegal. In fact, some of the ai companies push to make what they did clearly illegal. How convenient...

And I hope you understand that using the LLM locally consuming the same amount as gaming is completely missing the point, right? The training and the required on-going training is what makes it so wasteful. That is like saying eating bananas in the winter in Sweden is not generating that much CO2 because the distance to the supermarket is not that far.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well LLMs don't necessarily always suck, but they do suck compared to how much key parties are trying to shove then down our throats. If this pops the bubble by making it too cheap to be worth grifting over, then maybe a lot of the worst players and investors back off and no one cares if you use an LLM or not and they settle in to be used only to the extent people actually want to. We also move past people claiming the are way better than they are, or that they are always just on the cusp of something bigger, if the grifters lose motivation.

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[–] echodot 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't understand why everyone's freaking out about this.

Saying you can train an AI for "only" 8 million. It is a bit like saying that it's cheaper to have a bunch of university professors do something than to teach a student how to do it. Yeah and that is true, as long as you forget about the expense of training the professors in the first place.

It's a distilled model, so where are you getting the original data from if not for the other LLMs?

[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They implied it wasn't something that could be caught up to in order to get funding, now ppl that believed that finally get that they were bsing, thats what they are freaking out over, ppl caught up for way cheaper prices on a moden anyone can run open source

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you can make a fast, low power, cheap hardware AI, you can make terrifying tiny drone weapons that autonomously and networklessly seek out specific people by facial recognition or generally target groups of people based on appearance or presence of a token, like a flag on a shoulder patch, and kill them.

Unshackling AI from the data centre is incredibly powerful and dangerous.

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[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago

Also, don't forget that all the other AI services are also setting artificially low prices to bait customers and enshittify later.

Interesting that all the propaganda and subversiveness is coming from the US, not China. Having the opposite of the desired effect.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago (18 children)

It's models are literally open source.

People have this fear of trusting the Chinese government, and I get it, but that doesn't make all of china bad. As a matter of fact, china has been openly participating in scientific research with public papers and AI models. They might have helped ChatGPT get to where it's at.

Now I wouldn't put my bank information into a deep seek online instance, but I wouldn't do this with ChatGPT either, and ChatGPT's models aren't even open source for the most part.

I have more reasons to trust deep seek as opposed to chatgpt.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's just free, not open source. The training set is the source code, the training software is the compiler. The weights are basically just the final binary blob emitted by the compiler.

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[–] trigg@lemmy.world 209 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Also what's more American than taking a loss to under cut competition and then hiking when everyone else goes out of business

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Names in chinese AI papers: Chinese.

Names in memerican AI papers: Chinese.

"Our chinese vs their chinese"

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[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 49 points 1 day ago (17 children)

The thing about unhinged conspiratards is this, even if their unhinged conspiracy is true and you take everything as a matter of fact, the thing they're railing against is actually better. Like on this case. Deepseek, from what we can tell, is better. Even if they spent $500Bil and are undercutting the competition that's capitalism baby! I think ai is a farce and those resources should be put to better use.

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