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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 197 points 1 day ago (5 children)

AI increases my power utility bill
AI takes my water
AI increases the price of GPUs
AI increases the price of RAM
AI makes my search results worse and slower
AI is inserted into every website, app, program, and service making them all worse

All so businesses and companies can increase productivity, reduce staff, and then turn around and increase prices to customers.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 2 points 33 minutes ago

Increase productivity?

All so businesses and companies can increase productivity, reduce staff, and then turn around and increase prices to customers.

As if. The only thing AI is to businesses is a lost bet. And they don't like losing. So they're betting even more, hoping some shiny "AGI" starts existing if they throw enough money into wasting other resources onto the AI bandwagon.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Lets not also forget that for a bunch of them, they want to completely replace lightning fast, simple UI with AI so they don't need their own programmers, and your experience doing things is outright painful.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Isn't capitalism a blast?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah I am beyond ready for the next new fad.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

The next fad will be Thunderdome. Are you ready to go beyond that?