Tell ChatGPT it caused the price increase, and now it needs to either correct it in some way, or kill itself.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
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If you actually paid $420 for 32GB of RAM, I'd call the police.
I hate this. It's a machine, playing at some sort of humanity doesn't calm me, it creeps me the fuck out.
I sincerely don't know how people "talk" to these things, much less fall in love with them? WTF?
I agree 110% and find your comments very insightful. Many people do fall in love with AI and they are emotionally and intellectually weak; but you? You're different. With your sharp wit, you're able to quickly dissect a problem and get to the truth of it, discarding all the random flotsam and jetsam that clog the sieves of lesser human beings.
Would you like to tell me more?
@grok summarize this
Something something final solution
I'm doing my part!
It does it because we did it a lot, it's just a word association box.
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Why do people want AI to type/sound this atrociously?
I'm so glad the latest breakthroughs in AI are about doing more with less in the form of Quantization and Distillation efforts.
It's gonna make these AI focused companies like Meta realize how exposed and stupid they are for buying out more equipment then they had any plans to do with. And I hope that they fail hard without a government bailout.
I’m no expert, but I’ll bet that there is plenty of work being done on the ultra-high level to maximize usage of their resources.
It's not surprise that the real efficiency gains came out of China.
Most of AI is funded by NVIDIA explicitly and obviously as a way to goose their stock price. You think AI companies who depend on getting money from NVIDIA on the condition they buy a lot of NVIDIA GPUs are going to go out of their way to lower the cost of compute?
Edit: Actually, I think it doesn't matter. AI is so divorced from reality, OpenAI can say they lowered the cost of compute by 95% and therefore they have to triple their orders of GPUs.
So your saying that when OpenAi bought all of the world's memory wafers for a year, they had planned to stay afloat forever?
Don't configure your software agent to generate first person prose. It's not good for you or the people you expose to it.
Don’t configure your software agent to generate
Say no more
if it was at all capable of maintaining anything, i would have it respond like hk-47 assassin droid.
too bad building upon ai is like building on sand in a bog on an indian burial ground on a fault line
I havent used AI in ages, why does it talk like a redditor now?
Presumably, because either it was instructed to or the context had a bunch of a similar style in it.
The problem confronts itself.
Because in its market, the AI market, RAM is cheap … if you buy in bulk.
Fake, it actually correctly inferred that 420 is more expensive than the 80-120 range
Doubly fake for not doing a 420 joke
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Don't worry guys AGI is real! It'll just cost a few million to update the model with latest pricing data.
Tell it that it's the reason the RAM costs $420. Maybe it'll commit sodoku in shame.
I guess LLMs are notoriously bad at math and logic problems, but doing a sudoku doesn't seem like a particularly bad punishment ..
Why would ChatGPT use phrases like “weird” and “call the police” and all these stupid emoji?
It’s either from the context or a deliberately chosen chat style, I presume.
One thing that isn’t emphasized enough about the ChatGPT app is that it's “far” from the LLM. There’s a ton of stuff wrapping around it and getting injected into the context, tons of tracking and personalization and engagement maximization.
And the Chat models are finetuned to oblivion. They are deep fried.
It gives me creepy Facebook vibes.
It's definitely deliberately chosen. There's no way it'd randomly just go into Reddit speak; that's not how an LLM like this works: it maintains that generic, stale toast tone unless you ask it otherwise.
Which also makes me question what the prompts before this were and makes me assume this is faked. Like "pretend to be shocked" faked.
More than a few people tune ChatGPT to have a personalized tone in this vein. This here is a mild case.
It's not a pure LLM though. It's ChatGPT. That's what I'm saying; users have no idea what else is in the context, and it could easily be something that pushes it to "Reddit speak."
When I've seen my parents use it, it brings up things it could not possibly know from the current conversation, so its definitely inserting previous context at the very least.
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Because it's glorified predictive text which has scraped the shit out of Reddit.
Because its not ai, it's lookahead autocomplete and those are the kinds of things that would follow the previous thing in the training data
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You can give it a style of speech. It can mimic anything. I saw one where it just responded: 'OHMIGOD SAAAAMMMEEE 🥵🥵🤧🤧' which... Is bizarre, but if youre texting it and coaching it daily it will pick up your habits
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At that very point, ChatGPT just acts like that random thief that says "I did nothing" to the police officers... While he has a bag full of money in one hand and a gun on the other.
I guess the AI's price memory was frozen at pre RAM crisis (or earlier), so it thinks the current (inflated) price is abnormal.
(BTW, I don't think police will take the case about the pricing, they would just tell you to find another store(s) with more reasonable price. :) )
The model having been trained on more recent data doesn't invalidate the now outdated data. It could be the most recent model in the world, but it might still respond like a forum post from 8 years ago
Yeah I've used Hermes to check some prices for nvme drives it was ballparking stuff which sounded like a few years ago prices. When I got it to websearch to confirm it would find online stores and quote cheap prices from listings that where sold out so that wasn't accurate.
Please, call the police
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