In a competitive market, there would be no reason to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into LLMs which are unprofitable, inaccurate, and have very limited use cases.

That’s not how capitalism works at all. Companies are spending money on AI because they need to compete against other companies. You might not like it for all the very good reasons you gave, but consumers are using AI so companies are trying to provide it. In the absence of competition, companies do not spend money chasing risky new revenue streams but milk their existing base.

If there was only Microsoft, and no other software company on the planet, Microsoft would not spend money on AI because they wouldn’t need to.

A big part of Marx’s criticism of capitalism is the waste it creates through duplication of effort.

If there were more Google/FB/Amazons there would be even more hardware purchases because there would be more companies competing to dominate AI.

previous gen

That’s not current gen.

That is a fundamentally incorrect interpretation of what a director does.

Then explain where my analogy fails.

Ultimately, due to how subjective the idea of art is there’s nothing I can say to convince you that this perspective is wrong.

You can change my mind by explaining how a director is different than what I’ve seen in hundreds of behind the scenes commentaries and documentaries on movie creation. To be more specific, some directors are also writers, storyboarders or cinematographers. But those are additional jobs that not all directors do.

because it’s so incorrect,

You need to explain why it is incorrect.

If they got broken up years ago

The problem is how do you break up a design team? My experience in hardware industry is that its a very tiny team of people making doing the silicon design and then hundreds/thousands of support engineers doing support hardware (like board layout that the chips will go on), software drivers and testing.

I think the same theory works for everything- including generic replies to comments on Lemmy.

How could Nvidia be broken up? It’s the same GPU silicon being sold for gaming and AI. Gaming doesn’t even matter to them so if you broke out gaming into a separate company, they’d still be a monopoly.

Imo, it wouldn’t be a problem if they were taxed. The value they generate would go back to the people.

ai generated art didn’t create itself. someone typed in text and uploaded an image that they wanted manipulated. Movie directors only give instructions to actors. They don’t create the sets/costumes. They don’t write the words. They only give instructions and they get awards for being artists.

Wow! That’s a fantastic price!

A workhorse is: take my money and shut up

It doesn’t have to be one or the other! It can and does work out of the box without being a proprietary ecosystem. It’s not just Anycubic. You can use a Prusa, Flashforge, Qidi, etc as a workhorse without a proprietary ecosystem.

You don’t use search? Like you don’t use duckduckgo or anything?

The Anycubic has presets for .4 and .6 in brass or hardened steel. It’s only missing .2.

I couldn’t care less. Drying is done in an oven.

You can’t claim the S1 is incomplete for not having a .2 nozzle presets and then turn around and say that a built in filament dryer doesn’t matter when Bambu made it a pro feature. Especially when .4 is what you get out of the box from Bambu and .2 requires modifying your printer by swapping the hot end.

Bought the P1S combo (AMS 1) for 636

Where? I see 800€ everywhere.

And where I “go after” Bambu is what you didn’t mention: locked down firmware and no alternative slicer.

It’s more about the general thing that they are not finished products. At least not to the extent the Bambu are.

That’s like saying a Toyota isn’t a finished product compared to a BMW. The Anycubic works and isn’t locked down to their cloud service. You can even install open source firmware. The S1 AMS does filament drying that the p1S doesn’t do without the pro AMS.

I agree that Anycubic should sell nozzles but 3rd party nozzles are available.

Like I said there’s a temporary sale that makes the P1S a great value. The S1 is not $50-$100 cheaper. It was $1000 vs $650. Now it’s $700 vs $450.

This is exactly why.

To be fair, the internet is full of complaints that the P1S has problems with layer 1 too.

Before the current P1S sale it was $600 for a Anycubic with ams vs $1000 for a P1S with AMS. But what got me to get the Anycubic was they haven’t locked users out of Orca slicer and forced cloud like Bambu. Anycubic has cloud features if you want it but you aren’t forced.

Just textured. I don’t have a smooth plate.

I have an Anycubic S1 combo. Enclosed, AMS, networked, hackable (Rinkhals kliipper) . 700 hours on it and it’s been fine. Layer 1 isn’t absolutely perfect across the entire bed but as long as you aren’t mass printing coasters with layer 1 designs, you won’t notice. It’s never been enough of an issue for me to bother tweaking the defaults.

But if this for a business, you should probably cave and get a P1S.

I have been printing a lot of tpu the past few weeks. I’ve been using magigoo glue stick. I have no idea if it’s the best because it was a random YouTuber recommendation. But it’s been working.

I’ve been using Anycubic TPU 95, Esun foaming TPU, and Variosure foaming TPU on textured pei plate.

“top fire strike score for a 1060”

“A traditional Google search is still best for the simple act of looking for things to do nearby, but AI Mode could prove to be a nifty tool for more tedious tasks like product research for online shopping — an instant chart comparing baby car seats is helpful, even if imperfect. Just always check the answers.”

Exactly my experience. I don’t understand people who go to chatgpt first.

enshitify before the IPO

I always see it after. Because then the suits take over and it becomes a mandate to increase profits quarterly for the share holders. IPOs want to show happy users to sell the idea of future revenue from milking those users.

Yeah. It can be set on or off as default when CC is activated.