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Cake day: November 18th, 2023

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  • AI is honestly the least impressive tech buzzword I’ve seen (aside from cryptocurrency, which, looking at the code, is basically an unnecessarily overly complicated linked list. AKA something people learn in Programming 101).

    AI has been around since the 90s and is nothing new. At best, it’s the equivalent of mashing together the top 10 google results and hoping for the best. Most of the time that creates a jumbled mess of misinformation.

    Now, that’s all opinion based. The facts of why I believe it’s failing are:

    1. It’s still not profitable due to the insane amount of computing power required to run their bulky software.

    2. OpenAI CEO just got canned and reinstated for reasons we’re not being told. Big sign that something is off behind the scenes and the people in charge know it’s not going to work.

    3. OpenAI has openly stated that they want people to stop using their product because they make more money when less people use it.

    4. There’s no economy around it that benefits anyone but themselves in the long run. This will keep government inspired to shut them down.

    In order for OpenAI to be successful, I’d say they need to start paying people for the content they blatantly steal off the internet. I can see Bard being successful in the long run because they credit their sources and have a better opportunity to create an economy around their AI that can benefit the sources that they’re getting their information from. (Even then, Bard is just Google with extra steps.) OpenAI, on the other hand, is openly committing plagiarism and believes they can get away with it by constant denial. Might work for them in the short term but long term they’re fucked and it’s their own fault for trying to get away with consistently stealing other people’s work for profit. That’s what makes me incredibly happy to see them fail. They deserve to fail and will get what’s coming to them.

    TLDR: use Bard.











  • Yeah don’t go that route. I’m saying this as someone who has decades of experience specifically in software security and database development. You need more software security and database knowledge than three people can learn in 20 years, and even then you’re fucked with hidden fees and some imaginary PCI compliance status that you’ll never achieve. They didn’t have these types of blockers when Amazon and eBay were made, but they don’t want any competition now do they? So now the credit card companies and fuckheads in charge of all these businesses created these policies for the banks and credit card companies so that people like us can never touch their level of success. Banks, credit card companies, and everyone in between will gloriously fuck you in the ass if you try to do it on your own. And you’ll give them thousands of dollars while they do it. So if that sounds fun, then go right ahead. Otherwise, stay far away.