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I think you missed my point - up until Anthropic decides there's a pressing need to replace them to furnish their wallets, the awesome people who create incredible art using Blender have learned how to use the tool and use it to convert their imagination into something we can all see.

I think you missed my point completely - I am not attacking Blender, I'm attacking the Anthropic. You think Dario woke up this morning and just felt like doing charity? Or do you think there's an underlying business reason for getting into this space? If you believe they're doing it because they're lovely people I'm afraid we'll disagree about that.

Maybe it is a pointless fight with an inevitable end but at least I'll die with my humanity and dignity intact rather than being a boot licker for Sam Altman, but you do you.

Yes but those numbers get there through human creativity, they don't generate themselves.

Business doesn't need to go to the big 3, but it will. The big companies will ensure that smaller, specialised or open models get restricted by laws paid for by their lobbying budgets, so that they can pull up the ladder after them and solidify their position. They've invested billions and will never allow the world become some tech utopia where we all have a personalised free AI in our pocket, they will guarantee their own dominance.

Difference is that those tools modernised the work and actually created jobs. The ultimate aim of these AI sociopaths is to remove all work in all areas so they can hoover up all the money and let people starve.

I get paid a decent salary for my expertise and this wild thing called remembering what happened yesterday. My point is my compute is powered by bananas and coffee, not gigawatts of energy and all of the RAM.

It's humorous to me that I can do the work of an AI with nothing but a coffee and an occasional sandwich and yet they talk about AI as if it's some sort of magic hack to productivity.

What they don't like is paying money for the work, that's all that matters to them.

> "No data goes to Anthropic from Blender."

You know, for now...

Wasn't this one called "machine learning" for denoising and upscaling? That's completely different from an LLM replacing your job (after being trained on your work without permission).

They love art so much they want to take the humanity out of it. The funny thing is these sociopaths at the AI companies can't even comprehend something that cannot be quantified in a spreadsheet.

So reducing budgets and suppressing wages then, what a great deal for the workers who have specialised in this field and who's work and effort the LLM has been trained on to replace them!

Hey Claude, explain what an hourly, daily and weekly backup schedule is, no mistakes.

A test to see if they could get away with it. I think we're really in the thick of token rationing right now and the fallout is going to be funny to watch.

I got in there quick yesterday with a refund once they pulled 4.6 and got my last month of about 1200 premium prompts free, nice.

I think the economic issue as you say isn't on physical labour it's on the fact that most of the jobs in the west are now in some sort of service industry or office work. Here in the UK we basically rely on the service industry to employ a large amount of the workforce. If MechaHitler Grok becomes sentient then that's a lot of middle-class earners out of a job and the economy goes with it.

You're absolutely right that an AGI isn't running a cable or digging a hole any time soon, but you're going to have 100 people trying to get their hands on the shovel to get paid for the digging - depressing the wages in those hands on jobs.

Highly ironic that people who spend their lives building things that invade everyone else's privacy might now whinge about privacy themselves.

If I start a business making a really special beef sandwich where I have to buy a farm every year for $1mil dollars, and then sell the sandwiches for $5, I can't get away with saying that my sandwiches turn a profit if the raw margin on the bread, the lettuce and the technical value of the weight of the beef is $3.

Sure my gross margin might be $2 on each sammie sold but I need to sell 500,000 sandwiches just to break even to be a viable business. The fact is these AI companies are playing the game where they talk about revenue and gross profit per token and just try to wave their hands in the face of anyone looking behind them at the crater they're throwing investor money into.

It's nothing but a gamble for AGI but the grand irony is that if that genie escapes out of the bottle the whole world economy is toast and money becomes meaningless anyway. I just can't comprehend the logic of why anyone is investing in this apart from short term gains.

In Xero for example I can search for invoices or contacts in a much slower and more cumbersome fashion in the new AI tool than I can with the old search field!

Oh, you mean a useful way, never mind.

Gemini says it’s a genius idea and I should patent it.

Self inflating nipple shaped balloons that generate their own lift without any helium would be an incredible achievement but that doesn't mean it's useful beyond being novel. Chatbots are ultimately just predictive text on steroids, and only complete fools would base their business, or entire economy around it.

So if my maths is right, 10K concerts over ~ 40 years - this guy was at a concert 5 nights a week every week?

I understand it's the quickest way to expose all your API keys.

The rules only apply to Democrats now, did you miss the memo? (Maybe you didn't see the memo as it was sealed).

I've never read the book but I assume there were some sycophants who were praising the AI right up until it created a black hole that destroyed the planet.

I'm creating a new start up called QuantumFlop Electricity - there's a 10% chance it will cause a black hole to open up in the Atlantic Ocean that may eventually consume us all but a 50% chance we'll have unlimited clean energy. We'll never know for sure if at any point that black hole may open as it's borrowing energy from the 81st dimension, but the upside seems pretty good.

Should I be able to get on with it?

They only care about benefiting what's left of humanity when they're done with it and it'll probably just be them and their cronies.

So they did the math and worked out it's cheaper and easier to lobby the government instead of working to make their product safe.

And these are the people that a lot programmers want to give the keys to the kingdom. Idiocracy really is in full effect.

Their goal is not to give us a better tool, it's to get us to think our old tools are rubbish so we give them money instead.

Maybe it's because of the environment they work in or their understanding of other people because of the business they're in.

Your average 50 year old business owner doesn't understand AI at all and doesn't care to know, he's too busy thinking about getting a new order for 5000 widgets that he invented. What he needs is a website with inventory management, some sort of email marketing software, some sort of CRM, maybe a dashboard or something. What he wants to do is pick up the phone to someone and get them to take care of it for a reasonable price.

AI is coming for programmers with no social skills, but it isn't coming for the human relationship side of the business where you need to have a few meetings to work out what they want to achieve, build a plan that works long term, have a call with other third parties or their vendors etc to alleviate pain points and then build a project around the business needs that won't crash every five minutes and leak their internal information because Claude decided security was optional.

Half my job is understanding what they need and then instead of accepting their original scope, building a brand new scope in collaboration with them to fit the business needs long term. If one of these guys just wants to plow the original scope into Claude and let it rip then the customer isn't getting what they need.