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Never forget to mentally replace “the economy” with “rich people’s yacht money” if you want to make sense of these kinds of articles

Depends where you are. Look up local (organic) data centres near you.

Went to get glasses and made a big point of avoiding Ray Bands for taking Facebook money to make pervert glasses. Hoping it’s not the first time they’ve heard that.

I do actually like the classic nerd look of their glasses, but yeah, fuck that.

Yeah once the mainstream is fully saturated they’ll turn their gaze to smaller, more “authentic” places. Imagine if they could have a boot infiltrate a tiny little private chat between a dozen people by building up the appearance of an organic presence on the fediverse / indie web.

Now advertisers (and potentially, malicious state actors) have a little spy and influencer in your group.

Yeah throwing out an entire computer because one little component is burnt out, or throwing out a whole component because one little connection is burnt out. And then there’s even micro soldering if you want to get surgical…

Or simply throwing a computer away because it’s slower than the new one. The price paid by the environment, by future generations, for e-waste needs to be front-loaded into the manufacturing process.

Otherwise companies are just stealing from the future and turning collective horizon into an unlivable garbage dump.

It’s so tiring, I agree.

For stuff relating the monetization, I can see the financial motivation to cut corners or just pass off others work as your own. Tale as old as time.

But for creative little indie things that you just share for no clout? Admittedly it’s rare, but I still see it here and there, like book covers for fanfic etc—that shit fuckin boggles me.

Like if you aren’t doing this for money or clout, why aren’t you just sharing 100% your own creativity? Isn’t that the reason to share creative stuff, to share a part of your “soul” with others and hope to genuinely touch someone, across time and space?

I can even understand someone who just likes ai generating stuff and thinks it’s fun and cool (I disagree, but I understand it). But then why not just say you made it with an LLM, and point out which parts are yours and which parts are generated? Why try to “trick” people into thinking they’ve made a genuine connection?