I'm sure it's more than the cost of memory. The person that does all of their computing on their phone doesn't care. They do care that aspect of life is infected with this shit. From the useless "AI" chatbot that is really just a reskin of their old POS chatbot (or an "Actual Indian"), to the U. S. government talking about giving money to these companies ('cuz ol' Larry and Elon need the money), all the way to the tech bros that will...not...shut up about it. And to drive it all, we'll need to put a jet engine next to your house, sorry.

Cryptocurrency was mildly annoying, then AI said "hold my beer...".

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Hamuko 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>The person that does all of their computing on their phone doesn't care.

Budget phones are a category are getting fucked, and there's a pretty good chance the next iPhone is gonna cost even more than it does now.

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sofixa 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't forget the US government openly bragging about using AI for targeting in the Iran war, while also trying to pretend it didn't strike a school and kill a few hundred schoolchildren. (No we don't know if it was AI that made the mistake, and it's not like we're likely to get a proper investigation into it)

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throwaway85825 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The school used to be a military base office. Acting on stale data is common for both humans and ML models.

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sofixa 6 hours ago | parent [-]

And a wall between the two was built a decade ago. Considering it was hit on day one, obviously it was considered an important target, which makes it inexcusable that nobody checked it in a decade.

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/4314de...

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throwaway85825 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A navy base on the contested straight of hormuz is always going to be a priority target. Militaries have pre existing contingency plans. Typically military bases don't move very fast.

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sofixa 5 hours ago | parent [-]

A decade to realise that a military base has been resized and there is an obvious school on what used to be a part of the same property isn't fast.

	▲	mpyne 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"isn't fast" is basically how you'd sum up the U.S. military in a nutshell. So much of what it is in the past 3 decades is coasting off its Cold War legacy. Target lists for an Iran scenario should absolutely have been updated before use for combat, but if it turned out they had not been substantively reviewed ab initio in a decade, I'd absolutely believe it.
	▲	throwaway85825 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not like iran has a public list of military facilities and what theyre used for.