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When intelligence is a commercial commodity, it is only bound to happen that the rich gatekeep it to secure their socioeconomic status.

But, I think, with every revolution, hierarchies have only historically fallen only for the former serfs to rise.

The industrial revolution, the renaissance -> all were marked by an massive shift in the socioeconomic status and the rise of the middle class.

I think AGI, when it happens, will only raise equality. I may be wrong.

Hahaha this hits home too hard, back in early 2000s people would moan all the time whenever they spotted a hint of autotune, in 2026 its the industry standard.

I think its really speaks on the incredible ability of people to be able to be stuck in the past rather than new technology being "bad".

Criticism is healthy and != maiming, but it is apparent that mainstream culture nowadays labels "AI Art" consumers as dumb and tasteless. I think this is maiming.

"the idea that we should "close our ears" is of course itself the very appeal of AI content, it never challenges or complains, that's the appeal of AI music, AI boyfriends and so on." -> People also do shrooms that arguably have a similar effect, who am I to judge?

"soulless" is a term YOU label people with for enjoying a certain type of music. This is your problem, not the people's problem for enjoying this sort of music.

But I agree with your second point, an AI should NOT BE able to mimic a brand/personality such that it brings harm to them.

Your third point, actually it is NOT distinct from actual cover artists, because if I tomorrow pick a system of the down hum and then remix it and it gets popular, their automated DRM system will probably C&D me and their label sue me to oblivion using the same AI.

AI slop is quite antithetical to Spotify's business model, they would actually lose money if say tomorrow, AI music dominates the charts, when AI music gets that good, people can just generate their own music and leave Spotify back in the mud.

It's probably the "AI artists" themselves generating false engagement and manipulating the algo for discovery.

NVIDIA has such a big moat around their CUDA architecture such that I don't think AMD will ever be able to outcompete them in AI compute unless they somehow find 2-3 nobel prize level breakthroughs today.

There were never any days where leaders stood by their words.

People have always used lies as tools to maintain their power whether it is the Roman Empire or 21st century AI companies. It is just human nature.

First of all 1) 8 H100S are NOT ENOUGH for today's premier models (500B+ tokens) and if you do run a obsolete model forget about memory.

2) After buying the 300k GPUs, your electricity cost will put you in competition with hosting on cloud costs, you will probably lose dollars this way.

3) NVIDIA will charge you a kidney to provide driver/hardware support if anything goes wrong.

This inherently a bad idea and this person is probably trying to promote his startup.