2026-08-09 00:18 UTC
@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com Well you need material resources to run any of these things - the internet too, which has always obviously required a vast physical infrastructure. Capitalists will always aim to rent seek - I see that as something close to axiomatic lol - but I don't know that it's more of a problem with this tech specifically than with previous technologies?
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@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com 2026-08-09 08:32
@Lafargue@mastodon.social well I guess the centralization was always there to an extent in the manufacturing side of things — and we're only really feeling that now as regular consumers are being out-competed for chips — but I do think there's a difference between software/hardware that can be run locally/independently from the internet and LLMs which necessitate more compute than even a small-to-medium business can reasonably afford the machinery for.