Yes, that’s called vertical integration, and its when companies own their suppliers. It’s one of the exact examples I gave, and I don’t really understand how you can’t see that it’s the opposite of your claim that ‘suppliers often invest in their big buyers’.

I’m trying to think of anywhere in the non-West that has guillotines or public executions, that I’d want to emulate as a good policy model.

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Nope, nowhere comes to mind.

Not as a general rule, no. Not at all.

Businesses make profit selling to customers. Large customers typically give less profit as they negotiate cheaper contracts, at the benefit of being a reliable buyer. Investing the profit back into them makes little sense.

Do you see farmers invest in the supermarket chains that buy their produce? Mining companies investing in Chinese ore smelters? Battery producers investing in major electronics companies? Pottery companies invest in garden center chains?

Its really quite uncommon for companies to directly invest in their large customers.

Whats seen more typically is the reverse: big customers investing in their major suppliers, often to negotiate better pricing agreements or to guarantee supply contracts for their critical supply chain items.

The AI ouroborous is a very artificial industry structure - its just a bottomless moneypit that’s doing its best to hide that fact as long as possible, "come 2030 it’ll be ultra profitable bro, trust. In the meantime we’ll need the GDP of a large nation every year ty’.

You’re completely right. I wrote this pretty late at night.

I’ll leave it though, so that your comment can add context.

It will also position the AI as a wise mentor to millions of kids, which is terrible when you consider its owned by billionaire sociopaths. They will use this trust.

Unfortunately in addition, they took all the money for like three tech booms and slammed it all into that one cycle because the US economy was very stagnant and it seemed like their only move that made line go up. Whole thing has been exhausting.

I’m tired, boss.

I don’t understand why people like AppleTV so much, we have one too.

It had the worst interface by far of any streaming or video player we use. Its like Apple went out of their way to make it unintuitive.

Same, that good will has evaporated though as he’s continued to demonstrate poor decision-making and social skills. Bad traits for a business leader.

I have a lifetime Simplelogin account because I love that service… It’s now part of proton (as they bought it), so I think I’m stuck.

Yeah, the mechanism discussed in this paper is via Facebook ‘share’ content frames and cookies, not relevant for anyone who disables JavaScript via NoScript or blocks third-party cookies.

Which I’m guessing based on past comments is 80%+ of Lemmy users. Including me.

Well… not me specifically, they’re not.

I can’t wait to see what Elon can do for Tesla with the extra budget from rolling it into SpaceX.

Imagine how many amazing new promises and forecasts can be made and broken.

Fingerprints have been ‘the new cookies’ for like 20 years, so I think it’s starting to stretch the definition of ‘new’.

Cool I’ll buy some DDR4 before I gets expensive… Annnnnd. It’s gone.

nervous laugh

My Pixel will still be covered for 7 years though right? I need those upstream updates for GrapheneOS.

It’s funny watching them rig the system and simultaneously keep shooting themselves in the dick.

Nvidia - desperate not to lose business as they’re now ~93% dependent on AI sales, so they keep ‘investing’ in OpenAI, Anthropic, etc… Who turn around and of course immediately buy Nvidia AI chipsets.

OpenAI and Anthropic - panicking that investors will realize their IP is worth nothing (what we’ve said all along) as they are overtaken by much cheaper models, so they lower their pricing drastically - can’t risk losing that market share*.

*market share is irrelevant really, there is no first-to-market winner in AI, but you cant lie to idiots investors for another 16 rounds of funding to 2030 unless you can show userbase growth to them.

Really hard to keep propping up the con when barely anyone is paying.

Fingers crossed for horrible things to happen to then soon.

Remember when piracy was shrinking and Netflix was cheap and had a good deal of content?

Ah well, if only we can figure out what changed.

I guess we’ll instead try prohibiting VPNs, when something is in demand… prohibiting it always works great with zero unintended consequences.

You sound like you know your pixel art so I’m gonna take your word for it that this is sus. Appreciate the explanation.

Yeah, I had a peek too. It might be ai, but I haven’t seen any actual evidence of it - they use this pixel art style on a lot of their posts and it seems consistently decent.

Looking at their company photo they’re very well funded and also have a team of like 60 people, so there’s no reason they couldn’t have an in-house graphics artist or a freelancer they contract. Or it could be ai.

But in times where every modern graphics artists is being accused of being AI, I’m inclined to assume not rather than assume it is, without evidence to the contrary.

Uhh… Its the icon for a browser plugin… To illustrate that it was a Twitch browser plugin.

What’s wrong and bad about it, in your opinion? I’m no pixel art expert, but it sounds like you may be?