> Yes, we do need the data centers, but people have a saying too.
Think of the airports. Do we need them? Absolutely. Do people have a say? Yes they do. And that's the problem: they will always say sure but not in my backyard. Obviously no one wants an airport nearby, that's understandable. So in the end expanding an airport (and thus economy) becomes basically impossible.
But in case of airport there is at least a clear case to make. DataCenters? Not so much. Laymen are unable to make an educated decisions here hence they will always vote no.
While technically true, if your datacenter is in Phoenix and you just consumed a few acre feet of water to raise the relative humidity by 0.000001%, for all intents and purposes that was a massive waste of water.
So you say that I can burn a bit of ICE's GPUs by typing words suggesting I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers
> You pay tax direct as us residents, or as tariff if you are in rest of world.
Tariffs on goods coming into the US are paid by US residents. (Just had to pay customs to clear a shipment from the UK - I had to pay the tariffs, not the seller.)
The other reason could be the copyright cases they are fighting in court. OAI was ordered to keep all records, including private. Not sure if it was lifted already.
And another could be EU requirements for age verification. AI can produce adult content.
There are may be other reasons, like to prevent using OAI models' output to train competing models.
No other reason? What about simply fraud protection. The same reason they switched new accounts to be where you have to pay to buy credits first instead of paying at the end of the month. There is a ton of fraud in this industry
As far as I understand, many users are better off with GPT-4o anyway. Amusing to be charging premiums for an objectively bad upgrade, but I guess that's the kind of bullshit economics that hype cycles create.
I have been an Ubuntu user since inception (and Linux user since kernel 1.2.3).
This summer I have migrated all our production and development servers to Debian. Because absolutely and sincerely fuck rust coreutils, sudo-rs, systemd-* and the other virtue signaling projects.
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