RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117531162568683916
This would seem to support my suspicion that the real play with all these datacentres and artificial scarcity of computer hardware is to steal the means of computing from people and instead make them dependent on centralized, cloud based, subscription model serfitude.
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Altman says data centres offer better utilization
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization
With data centres full of RAM, your PC is apparently the problem.
Sooner the AI bubble bursts the better...
@fname 100% this, and the scare-mongering is to aid that too. If they make open models seem too dangerous, they'll convince governments to regulate their usage.