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I rather suspect that in the current economic climate, a trillion dollar bailout of Big Tech would very quickly translate to riots in the streets.


Frankly, I would be happy if riots in the streets happen (if there is a bailout of Big Tech in the first place). What's going on recently with OpenAI publicly, and probably most of the 'AI' players not publicly, is disgusting - it's a bubble, everyone and their mother knows it, and these guys try to save their asses by asking for governement backing before the bubble even pops. Privatize gains, socialize losses...

It's a shame that no more bankers went to jail after 2008, although I find the situation was much more complicated than here.


Oh, don't get me wrong, if and when this happens, I'll join the riots.

And I'm not even anti-AI; I genuinely believe that, as a technology, it is a major advancement that can and should be put to so many good uses. Which is emphatically not what the people in charge are doing.




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