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    2 hours ago

    Of course the one fucking service that’s actually useful for me acts like this… Ig I gotta find an alternative now…

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    6 hours ago

    And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:

    Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.

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      I’m going to have to try the selfhosted variants now. What a huge piece of shit.

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          54 minutes ago

          Perplexica is one example. I also seem to remember there is some way to integrate it with SearxNG which is a self hosted meta search engine.

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          Ditto! I run an old server, but would be willing to upgrade and self host a service instead of paying this ass hat any more money!

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            OpenWebUI says it’s designed to operate entirely offline - that’s not an alternative to Perplexity. I need online search functionality, that’s pretty much the only reason why I pay them. I have offline solutions set up on my pc.

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              OWui has a search module which can be enabled. For me, running it entirely offline is more or less the draw. I think it also supports RAG search, although I don’t know how “good” it is… mostly I was just after a little magic box to play with.

              Now, if only enterprise glass GPU’s weren’t so power hungry and expensive…

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    Oh, okay. Well obviously fuck this guy. I can’t imagine being enough of an asshole to see staff go on strike and your first thought is ‘let me pitch my shitty AI!’

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        If your entire workforce is ai and you don’t have any humans then how do humans who don’t have a job pay for your product?

        The entire concept of replacing the workforce with AI falls apart when you spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it. Only way it would work is if we actually got rid of the entire concept of money.

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          They’re not thinking that far ahead. They’re thinking “how can I make the lines go up this quarter?”

          No doubt many of them understand that you need people with enough money to buy products or the economy stagnates. But they don’t see it as their problem right now. Their problem right now is to make the line go up by any means they can. It’s similar to how the owners must understand that climate change will fuck everyone if left unchecked, but they don’t see it as their own problem right now, so none of them take any steps to avoid disaster. Capitalism doesn’t contain mechanisms for coordinating actions towards the greater good. Instead it creates many “tragedy of the commons” type situations.

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        That’s the entire point of capitalism. To generate as much profit from as little expense as possible. Unfortunately capitalism is predicated on a human workforce earning income to pay for goods and services, so at some point the economic engine will shutdown and capitalism will have killed capitalism. Either way, once the level of robotics + dumb AI is more cost effective than the available workforce in any role, that role will be eliminated. Once general AI is achieved and (especially once) the robots can build and repair themselves, the proles will either get star trek or whoever commands the killbots (including an AI) will rule humanity and inherit civilization.

        NOTE: could happen at any time, but my bet’s on it not happening for many decades; possibly not for hundreds or thousands of years.

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    Do it. I fucking dare you. It’ll be fun to watch a media powerhouse and a douche meth lab burn each other down.

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    If the New York times wants to continue to be irrelevant entity in the world than they won’t take him up on that offer.

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      Are you saying that if NYT wants to continue to be relavent then they should agree?

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        No they’re saying that the NYT (the fucking NEW YORK TIMES) is irrelevant and will continue to be if they don’t switch to AI.

        Which is even worse