The irony here is this: AI actually has the potential to absolutely level the playing field.

Right now corporations are building the infrastructure out wildly and incorporating it into everything. They’re concerned about a race to the top while creating absolute inefficiency and ignoring responsible, sustainable growth.

The task of GenZ should not be to avoid AI, in my opinion.

Rather, embrace it. Own it.

WEAPONIZE IT.

When Google mainstreamed the Search Engine and added tool after tool, it made things that were previously legacy (Word Processing? Pay a big licensing fee to Microsoft, only save to your local machine or hard media! Along comes Google Drive and Docs and now you can edit your document everywhere and a computer crash doesn’t take it out!) well, digitized.

AI is that integration at warp speed.

We now have the tools to work harder and faster. We have near-instant access to research. If we are discerning, AI is actually not a weapon against us. It is a tool we can use to change the narrative.

Big companies are actually banking on fear of the masses. They want you to believe that AI is too big. That it is all-knowing. They don’t want you to recognize you can download ollama and a localized agent and tune it to your needs. Or to get into Gemini and ask it how you can disconnect from Google’s cloud if that’s really what you want it to do.

AI is the future. But it needs human hands. The question. You need to ask is: your hands? Or Microsoft’s?

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tobr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In the end, unfortunately, whoever sits on the most compute will have the power. It’s not going to be you and me.

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ericst 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly it is not even that clear.

Local models are quite efficient as well.

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hilariously 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, it is clear - for every compute unit you have that's more efficient and effective I have 10,000,000,000 compute units. I can use the same models that you do. How would you win?

	▲	trvz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Use them for what? This is a case where what you do with your stuff matters more than its size.

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karmakurtisaani 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can also rent cloud compute and run your own models there.

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jitler 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> WEAPONIZE IT.

The moment you start doing this at any scale, the companies will notice, and after a few winks, nods, and campaign donations, you will not be able to use it anymore.

	▲	pocksuppet 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As if nobody's ever evaded a ban before. We have North Korean spies infiltrating American government agencies, but you can't even create a second Claude account?
	▲	salawat 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is why local weights are the way to go if you want to embrace the technology and successfully weaponized it against incumbents. I'm not saying you should, mind, I've only dabbled enough to get a sense of how these things will eventually be weaponized against the public. But the unethical genesis keeps me from fully embracing it; likely much to my detriment.

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crote 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They don't want to embrace the Slop Machine. They hate what it is doing to the internet they used to love. Why would they intentionally become fully dependent on it, leaving them completely at the mercy of AI companies willing to turn off their access at a moment's notice? [0][1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722

	▲	pocksuppet 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Gen Alpha have never seen a lovable internet. It died before they were born.