Was scrolling my account history and came upon this old post, in which many people, yourself included, expressed disbelief that Meta was knowingly taking money to foment genocide, which we learned when Careless People was released, was absolutely the case. And we learned just this week, Meta been paying Nazis to post on Facebook.
I wonder what the line is, for people in general.
This whole internet could run on a tiny fraction of what it current consumes, with no drop in service levels... if the extraction of profit from every single interaction was not prioritized.
That being said, I was addressing someone who refused to believe that local inference was even possible on CPU; this tells me that the efforts to present the current grift as the only and inevitable AI outcome is working, on minds that do not fundamentally grasp what the technology is, nor what it's doing. I think the tech is great, and highly useful - the way they are implementing has perverse incentives and existential outcomes, and it does not have to be that way, but it is, because capitalism.