I don’t know how someone can think “AI CAN obscure reality …”

Obviously the fundamental truth is “AI does obscure reality …” (Often this will be inconsequential, but that doesn’t make it less true).

(Edit: especially an academic, FFS)

Like a fraction of a percent of people will run their own models. It won’t influence price. Remember that coders/tech people are only a minority of users.

now they are laying of staff? What, did they blow their whole budget out?

I think there’s this belief that guardrails like this are implemented as some kind of rules that the model must follow (like, a logical constraint). They aren’t, they are just extra details added in to the context window - effectively prepended to the response (source: OpenAI’s tutorial on how to implement guardrails). There is no guarantee that it will interpret them correctly, or follow them.

Isn’t fact they are having a hard time offloading that debt an indication that other investors are shying away from it because they see the data centre risk?

Because they pay significantly more than $300

Gross. I hope they take it to court.

Pretty sure some of that furniture was structural

That’s the neat thing, none of it’s real, and the AI investment bubble is going to make that very clear in the near future.

Pull requests and issue trackers

That’s like saying people prefer lots of highly processed food with heaps of sugar and no nutrients. It’s definitely true in some ways, but not a good thing to organise your life or society around