I remember there being a lot of innovation in all kinds of directions. The tech looks old and crusty these days if you look back on it but at the time it was exciting, it seemed like something cool and interesting was happening every week.

I think that’s the difference. Back then it was diverse and small companies could quickly gain market share by doing something new and different.

The current bubble is mostly based around a disconnect between what a LLM can actually do, and the hype, VC money, and established tech giants trying to sell a vision of what it might be able to do with more time and investment. There’s little diversity in the tech this time, it’s just LLMs being stuffed into various roles, some of which have utility and many which don’t. That’s why the bubble will burst soon. For every interesting use, like summarizing code there’s an AI powered fridge nobody asked for and nobody cares about.

The other big difference is that while the dot com bubble had the big players participating, many of which are still around today, there was potential for a startup to come along and eat their lunch. Now we just have a bunch of massive tech corporations who are out of ideas, so they’re pushing AI because that’s all they have left to hype because growth must continue at all costs, even if the average consumer couldn’t care less about ChatGPT or CoPilot.

Any time I point out that nuclear energy from new plants is really fucking expensive. Some people get mad at me for pointing out basic economics.

Let’s be fair here, they only had 4 years to get this done. A mere 1460 days or 35040 hours.

I bought this, it works great. I’ve not used a super fancy camera so I can’t compare but it beats an iPhone.

That’s just so sad.

You don’t make LLMs with the enormous amount of training data they require to work well without theft/piracy.

Are you starting to understand why people are upset about this?

If you worked hard, learned a craft, and spent countless hours honing it and I took your work without asking you and used it to enrich myself and my talentless tech bro buddies, how would you feel?

I’m ready. If any action is taken I’ll pay attention, everything else isn’t worth my time.

This isn’t proof, is it?

https://asahilinux.org/about/

Hear me out out, … NFTs.

That’s right, Non Fungible Tits.

He suffered some brain damage and completely coincidentally shifted right.

How so?

TempleOS master race rise up.

I’ll get downvoted because Lemmy has a weird hate boner for asking for proof but do you have any proof that they “collect everything”?

I’m really not interested in a long, drawn out debate about this, suffice to say that if you think all the things you listed, most of which are your opinion rather than indisputable fact, somehow make Apple worse than Google, Microsoft, or Meta … well let’s just agree to disagree.

Like I said, they’re the least shitty. Can you think of a corp that’s better? Google? Fucking Meta? Microsoft?

I disagree. You don’t see Democrats openly lining up to declare war on minorities. Don’t do the “both sides” thing.

It’s worse than that. There’s a level of hypocrisy here in that a company marketing itself as inclusive has a CEO who is donating to a far right, authoritarian slush fund. This isn’t business as usual.

It’s not just LGBTQ+ folks. Anyone not male, straight, white, christian, republican or natural born is in the firing line.