wow… OS Subcription-Based with AI?

you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy

I’m glad I already moved to Linux for 2 years

  • ViciousPanda37@forum.macaque.social
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    6 days ago

    Let me guess? The AI usage is going to stick its hand in your pocket for usage credits. Remembering that AI is currently massively unprofitable, at some point they’re going to try to make money off it. Ironically I don’t think they’ve considered that any supposed savings they make in getting rid of employees will get eaten up in energy and compute costs by AI companies. The business case for this has never made any sense.

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      6 days ago

      AI is currently massively unprofitable, at some point they’re going to try to make money off it.

      They need to make people dependent upon it first, then do the rug pull, and the dependent people will have no choice but to pay.

      They’re still stuck on that first step, though. Very few people are adopting it to a level where they’ll depend on it. Even the ones who do mess around with it are mostly just doing so casually and wouldn’t really miss it if it went away.

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        5 days ago

        The best case for their rug pull would be artificial boyfriends and girlfriends, but there’s not enough money there.

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          Nah, the best case for the rug pull will be all the software developers – especially less experienced ones – who have grown accustomed to using it and forgotten how to do their job without it … if they ever knew in the first place.