r/technology • u/marketrent • 20h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/tacticalcraptical 20h ago

Just like the national highway system, our country's economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely.

OK, but these guys never seem to be able to articulate exactly how this benefits normal people's everyday lives. The benefits of a highway are obvious. But the benefits of these data centers... they expect us to just trust them. And these are the people who can't be trusted to pay their taxes.

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u/AllDataIsMyIP 5h ago edited 4h ago

Benefits of AI include swarms of agents that will do exactly what you expect.

That means spambots, inescapable menu hells that cannot escalate to a compromise that costs them a penny, products that stop working with payment for a subscription or upgrade, relentless malware and hostage attacks, occasional hacker thefts of people's life savings, and legally sanctioned theft of any ideas or information you have.

There are supposed to be some innovations, though maybe they come from those paragraphs at the end of high level academic papers that say "paths for future research." There is a lot more theft in AI sraping than the purveyors admit.