lose 'social permission'
So when was that permission given?
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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It’s wild to think that 'actually being useful' is considered a backup plan and not the starting point. Usually, you prove the value before you use all the resources, not the other way around.
The epitome of a solution looking for a problem. Microsoft and others have dropped almost trillions into AI. With nothing to show for it.
It is useful, if you have the freedom to use it when and how you want. Not when Microsoft says so.
They could produce something useful instead?!
They could all lay themselves off
They've already lost social permission by making us hate their OS. This wording feels the same as calling lies "alternative facts." You just rename"hatred of our OS" with "lack of social permission." God PR speak is so annoying
Microsoft committed too much too soon and now they're desperate.
They wrote a "Happy Birthday" sign with a big ass B, big ass I, big ass R... Oh, no!
Motherfuckers have been buying people out of their homes, emptying entire neighborhoods just to get access to land near power plants and near water sources to build their AI data centers, they've been polluting drinking water sources and siphoning the electricity of entire towns, and polluting like crazy, and they're affraid society might not accept their useless AI porn generating bullshit? Because let's face it, that's what it's mostly used for.
I'm surprised we don't have a story yet about a town of people weilding pitchforks and torches and breaking into a data center.
Would you pissed if someone offered you double the value of your home? Wish would that happen to me.
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Where did they buy neighborhoods to bulldoze them?
Here's one example:
There's also Itasca in Illinois
I bet you can find more
Wow wow wow crazy.
Wow is right, those people made a massive profit on their homes.
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The rush to build data centers has become the new Oklahoma land grab, with providers competing for prime real estate. In one instance, a data center provider bought 55 homes only to demolish them to make room for its campus. Stream Data Centers, a Dallas-based provider of colocation and custom data-center construction services, last November purchased 55 homes in a 34-acresubdivision of Elk Grove Village, Illinois. According to published reports (here and here), Stream paid an average of $950,000 for each house.
"land grab"? That makes it sound like they did something illegal.
They offered people money and those chose to take it. Wisely. Because they made a huge profit on their houses.
You think I wouldn't sell mine for 950k when I bought at $310k?
True. At least the owners got a good price.
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Need a third button, ruin society to be pressing.
He's like every other CEO. Currently pressing it with his erection at the profits and suffering of poor people.
Wow, it turns out "Really convincing-sounding chatbot" isn't as all-purpose as was hoped.
I mean, legit, it's impressive how detailed and precise (and often wrong) it can get, but impressive isn't the same as useful.
I guess AI image generation probably has made concept art mockups quicker for some.
I tried to use it for help in Fallout 3 recently. I didn't want spoilers, so I didn't want to just use a walkthrough or wiki that often just tells you the answer and stuff you didn't want to be told. I thought it would be clever if the bot could tell me little clues to questions like, "Is the key I need even in this building?"
It made up such insane things! Like, "The NPC who carries the key is a ghoul mamed Chlamydia Jane. She's located at such and such."
Chlamydia. Jane.
Some robot had the key. He was in a small room I missed.
Chlamydia Jane sounds like a Fallout 2 or New Vegas NPC.
Even using it for concept art is a bad idea in terms of creativity and the creative process and negatively impacts the end result.
An artist will have an easier time creating concept art than AI will have giving you an accurate representation of what you envision using keywords. If they turn to AI Slop instead for creative ideas, then the project they need concept art for never had a concept in the first place, and is doomed to fail.
An artist will have an easier time creating concept art
What about a writer?
I've never used it myself for such purposes, but I have a friend who generously uses AI image gen for his extensive constructed world, complete with a glossary and pages which link to each other. He doesn't have the artistic talent (or time) to make a sketch for every one of his ideas, but he finds they 'feel' more complete and sit more 'fully' in his mind with an AI gen pic for each one.
I've threatened him with bloody murder if he goes to a public release without commissioning real artwork, but as concept art and placeholders, I don't think AI gen is inherently illegitimate.
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Today in "billionaire says the most blatantly evil and deranged shit ever publicly and no one cares"…
My GPU just started to die and I planned to build/upgrade my PC. Rip I guess all I can do now is hope for the bubble to burst.
You can still get one that's 7 years old and was thrashed by the crypto Bros for 800 bucks though !
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This is your grave, Microsoft. Keep digging it.
Bananapants.
Puts that in my pocket for later
It absolutely makes no sense that a bunch of corpos can do whatever the hell they like all while the common folk are forced to pay for their stupidity.
The electricity is one example. Bullshit like this which is completely useless shouldn't be a thing - All it does is severely impact the general populace all while the borguoise is blinded by false narratives whilst living beside their fat stacks of cash.
I see ai having 1 purpose
Help blind people
Image recognition is amazingly useful for blind people
There are a ton of useful use cases for machine learning, especially in the medical field. But the AI hype that all these datacenters are being built for isn't about molecule folding and interpreting x-rays, it's about chatbots.
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