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Richard Cabot's avatar

And you didn't marry her?

John Leake's avatar

Made my day!

Sharon Kayser's avatar

My suspicion is that all this data collection is utilized by billionaire elites to play chess with the rest of us.

earl's avatar

That certainly seems like the story so far. Monitor, predict then control.

mejbcart's avatar
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this is an EMERGENCY, title:

"Why AI Companies Are Destroying Original Literature to Train Their Models "

https://emeraldbook.org/news/jul-2926-3/

also reported in MULTIPLE places:

https://screenrant.com/anthropic-ai-rare-valuable-books-destroyed-controversy-explained/

https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

plus, it is NOT AI which destroys all BOOKS, it's the evil HUMANS who OWN THE AI companies!!!

Jason's avatar

The purpose of the data centres is flock cameras,l and next level surveillance because what the government plans on doing to us next may cause people to fight actually back and ((they)) wish to stop any insurgence before we are able to make a dent.

WTPlearn's avatar

So perhaps the only regulation we should see implemented is the denial of government to use the cameras against us the public. Flock cameras need to go. #CountiesFirst

Vinu Arumugham #MAHA's avatar

The government's appetite for committing crimes is unlimited. So no matter how efficient artificial stupidity (AS) becomes, the government will need more AS data centers to commit more crimes.

https://vinuarumugham.substack.com/p/unsafe-vaccines-ai-product-liability

Matthew Gardner's avatar

Weird China has less

Greg Hill's avatar

Personally I couldn't care less if they could reduce the largest AI data centers currently in existence or under construction down to the physical size and energy consumption of a wristwatch. I still wouldn't use it. After getting a college degree in psychology I ended up vectoring off into a 40 year career as a professional computer programmer, and I can say with absolute certainty that the phase "Artificial Intelligence" is an oxymoron. I would never trust it any further than I could throw an elephant. Eventually it's going to end up as popular nationwide as mRNA vaccines are finally becoming, but that's probably going to take a few years and a whole lot of harm done to unsuspecting victims. And of course there will still be a small number of brain-dead idiots who will continue to trust it the same way they still trust every word coming out of the mouth of "Mr. Science" Fauci.

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

It is a masterful Pump and Dump operation. Over capacity will be enormous!

Phil Davis's avatar

We need to hear more about that girlfriend. 🤣🤣

Rosa's avatar

Oh, John, I do love the description of your girlfriend's drive thru London! ha, ha!

Regarding AI.... A machine can not compare in any way to humans! My experience thus far with AI is mistake, mistake, mistake, one mistake after another. And, whenever possible I refuse to accept AI customer service. I say "NO, I want to speak to a real person." Surprisingly, I do get a real human on the phone line fairly quickly. Guess I could consider that good. Really, I just do not have anything good to report about AI. I know that other people are using AI successfully. Good for them. I just have not had that experience. Thank you, John, for your lovely bits of humor! Much appreciated and enjoyable!

WTPlearn's avatar

Will we see the same conditions play through as we did with Fiber support for telecom. We were all hyped on the need for cable to be laid everywhere, and then the telecom bust. Yes, I am for free markets. The cost of phone calls dropped like a rock.

earl's avatar

A reasonable question but I don't think that's what happened so far. Hardware gets more capacious and faster but is soon outpaced by the needs of software.

Phil Davis's avatar

John, you should check out the Pokémon Go game. You use your phone to find virtual monsters generated by a GPS signal, and then you must take a photo of the area the game sends. BTW, you will see the monster on your phone screen, and the more you collect, the more points you receive. Kids and adults all over the world have been playing for several years, and it's free. Millions, if not billions, of images have been taken in all kinds of obscure areas, alleys, backyards, etc., all at eye level. All these image locations have been selected by the game or by the company that owns it.

The catch: the company is collecting physical images of data at eye level so that AI robots can navigate all kinds of physical spaces.

The data centers will use massive data to control drones, walking bots, boats, and cars

All operated by AI, using images and GPS data collected mainly by kids. It's diabolical yet brilliant.

The uses of this type of data can be for anything. I believe it is mostly nefarious. And so one reason data centers are needed.

Rosa's avatar

Phil, this is very interesting, and not surprising. Thank you for the info! I knew people were playing those games, but did not know all the details.

ICN.PRESS's avatar

data centers once built what's inside can be scraped easily. so imagine today the full data center power A.I. is 100, for the same surface 10 years later will be 1000. the biggest issue being how all these fake profit corporations like nvidia will finance their research labs with real money.

Rosa's avatar

Won't they just print money like they do now......

Mindy's avatar

Hopefully the data centers don''t follow the trajectory of the TV instead. Your article has my mind filled with decaying data center carcasses.