> - AI centralizes power in the hands of capital, rendering those who can afford compute hardware vastly more capable than those who cannot and thus increasing social stratification

Looks to me like I can run Claude Code without being able to afford my own datacenter.

> - AI produces large amounts of mid-tier content, making it harder to discover exceptional human-created creative content produced after AI started to exist

That it does, but I think the real social evil is bad recommender systems. eg YouTube is basically on a mission to drive me insane because it literally only recommends me a) reviews of espresso machines b) video essays by autistic people about Mario 64 c) PBS scienceslop about how quantum physics is super mysterious. None of these are even what I watch, but they're also not what I want to watch.

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NateEag 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> Looks to me like I can run Claude Code without being able to afford my own datacenter.

Until Anthropic bans you from using their data centers, at which point you cannot run Claude Code at all. Welcome to being a have-not (at least in a world where only genAI-assisted coding is acceptable).

He who controls the GPUs controls the world.

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astrange 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Unlike GPT (I think?), Claude is served by all of AWS/GCP/Azure and you can go buy it from any of them.

	▲	Borealid 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Whether Claude is or is not available via AWS Bedrock is entirely decided by Anthropic, not by you and not by Amazon. And you can't buy the data sets (the REAL power...) from any AI company.