On a technical level, that makes zero sense.

AI “agents” are basically just fancy prompts with a tool calling harness. They are infinitely replicable, at zero cost, with no intrinsic value; the cost comes from the generic CPU host, and the API calls to GPU servers, databases, or whatever else that are all centralized anyway.

Wanna hear a dirty secret?

“AI” cost is going to zero.

Model capabilities aren’t scaling, but inference efficiency is exploding, thanks to more resource-constrained labs and breakthroughs in papers. The endgame of the current bubble is mediocre but useful tools anyone can host themselves, dirt cheap. Maybe a bit more reliable and refined than what we have now, but about as “intelligent.”

And guess what?

Microsoft can’t profit off that. None of the Tech Bros can.

Point being, this exec is either delusional, or jawboning, so the world doesn’t realize that “AI” is a dumb utility/aid, and they can’t make any profit off it.

As if the cat couldn’t get up there already. It just demanded direct placement.

Actually I think the public would generally understand this. Older demographics know what a camera indicator is, and for younger ones, a little light on sunglasses would get their attention.

Universally? No. But I’d wager the percentage is high enough for a crowd to know.

It’s generally more obvious when someone holds up a phone, but yeah.

Nope.

Not sure where OP got it from, but it’s an edit of this image:

Dating back to 2013: https://tineye.com/search/cf7d2b88446844f3df676dddf009f7824c20cabc?tags=&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1

It’s not just corporations. It’s influencer-grifters like Pirat_Nation.

…And, to be blunt, reposters who further spread the ragebait, like OP.

The platforms, ultimately, are what facilitate “marketing bait.” But I dunno what to do about that, as human being simply cannot help themselves once they see stuff like that. It works, apparently.

I mean, yeah… It’s a blue checkmark account.

At this point, if you’re paying for extra engagement on Twitter, that is beyond “benefit of the doubt.” It seems safe to assume its some kind of attention farm.

At risk of being abrasive…

I see blue checkmarks, I downvote. Nothing personal. But I don’t want to support that even indirectly.

Be careful about assertions like that, though. Misinformation taken as fact is posted all the time… just yesterday, I looked up some picture everyone was harping on in a comment with hundreds of upvotes, and it was totally fake. Probably AI generated. No one even checked.

And when I’ve pointed this out in the past, no one cared. People only prune information if it doesn’t validate their beliefs.

I’m not saying the Factorio dev isn’t a jerk, necessarily, just that I don’t trust Fediverse commenters to have an ounce of information hygiene.

No. You ghost her. And you get everyone you can to ghost her.

Don’t feed the trolls. Anything else is just getting her engagement, even so much as mentioning the issue.

Also:

for some LGBTQ+ people to shoot videos telling how HP helped them to come out of hiding and reveal their true self to the world.

Thousands (millions?) of people have already done this. Hence the HP fanfic community is notorious for heavy LGBTQ+ plots, which is partially why her position is so ridiculous.

I know that Kovarex is a piece of shit but I still enjoy factorio.

You talking about this?

https://nichegamer.com/factorio-founder-kovarex-interview-cancel-culture-and-secret-support/

Eh, that’s problematic, but it feels mild by 2026 standards. Tons of people are abrasive and won’t admit they were wrong or went too far… shrug.

But yeah, I guess I’m saying I agree with you. JK Rowling’s actions are not personality “quirks,” nor one-off events, nor tertiary reactions. Not even close.

To illustrate what I mean more clearly, look at the top comments/replies for the NASA Artemis posts, as an example.

…It’s basically all conspiracy theorists, and government skeptics.

Twitter’s focusing the Artemis posts on them because it’s what they want to see, and most engaging for them.

In the EFF’s case, I’m not just talking about Musk’s influence. The algorithm will only show the EFF to users who would be highly engaged by it. E.g., angry skeptics who wouldn’t be swayed by the EFF anyway, or fans who already agree with the EFF. It’s literally not going to show the EFF to people who need to see it, as Twitter’s metrics would show it as unengaging.

This is the “false image” I keep trying to dispel. Twitter is less and less an “even spread” of exposure like people think it is, like it sort of used to be, more-and-more a hyper focused bubble of what you want to hear, and only what you want to hear. All the changes Musk is making are amplifying that. Maybe that’s fine for some orgs, but there’s no point in the EFF staying in that kind of environment, regardless of ethics.

I feel like the EFF’s messaging is just not going to get through to anyone still on Twitter.

Remember, it’s not a fair forum; it’s an algorithm. And it’s not going to show the EFF to users who need to see it.

Hardly. Power costs are trivial to them at the moment, and a server hardware bottleneck would just consolidate power to the big few that can afford it (which is what they want).

To add to what others said:

LPDDRX is used in some inference hardware. The same stuff you find in laptops and smartphones.

Also, the servers need a whole lot of regular CPU DIMMs since they’re still mostly EPYC/Xeon severs with 8 GPUs in each. And why are they “wasting” so much RAM on CPU RAM that isn’t really needed, you ask? Same reason as a lot of AI: it’s immediately accessible, already targeted by devs, and AI dev is way more conservative and wasteful than you’d think.

Same for SSDs. Regular old servers (including AI servers) need it too. In a perfect world they’d use centralized storage for images/weights with near-“diskless” inference/training servers. Some AI servers do this, but most don’t.

Basically, the waste is tremendous, for the same reason they use cheap gas generators on-site: it’s faster-to-market.

What would happen if a tanker was destroyed and spilled out there?

Imagine if you showed this to someone in ~2009.

Even not-fully-reproducible open-weights models are extremely important because they’re poison to OpenAI, and they know it. It makes what they’re trying to commodify and control effectively free and utilitarian.

But there are fully open models, too, with public training data.

It’s anticompetitiveness.

They want to squash open models, and anyone too small to comply with this.

I say this in every thread, but the real AI “battle” is open-weights ML vs OpenAI style tech bro AI. And OpenAI wants precisely no one to realize that.

Not me.

I wanna be there to report every attribution-cropped post I can find, at least in subs where it’s applicable. And repost it without the crop, then tell everyone to watch out for your posts.