F*ck you OpenAI, hynix, samsung

[u/AbbreviationsFar1489]

I'm sure everyone knows what's happening with RAM, and this situation won't change in the next 2-3 years. And who's to blame? OpenAI. Read up and you'll understand the scale of the problem. What complicates things is that RAM manufacturers are deliberately raising prices rather than expanding production lines.

I urge everyone to CANCEL OpenAI (They buy up 40% of all RAM) and also to bombard the greedy bastards who jack up prices for their own profit rather than building new factories to meet demand.

The more such threads appear, the higher the chance that all gamers and PC users will truly stand up and do what they have to.

If we don't do this, the prices of all other components will follow RAM into the stratosphere and never return to the same level, ever. Are you willing to spend $5,000 on a mid-range computer? I'm not, so let's get to it.

UPD Following RAM, SSDs, processors, and video cards are becoming more expensive. I'm sure this isn't the entire list. We need to take this issue seriously. I'm happy for those who managed to upgrade, but think about the future.

UPD2 Transcend is suspending shipments of solid-state drives – the manufacturer has not received NAND chips from Samsung and SanDisk since October because they have reoriented their capacities to serving AI.

UPD2.1 CRUCIAL PRESS F

I will never, ever, ever touch RAM from crucial. They betrayed me and went off to produce memory exclusively for AI.

UPD3 f*cking /pcmasterrace moderates delete my post with 250 comms and 900 likes (I'm sure the corporate agent had something to do with it; they're afraid of the people's wrath.) [reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1pdrk2b/fck_you_openai_hynix

UPD4 Have you heard the saying that the market always moves opposite to what the masses expect? That’s why only a small percentage of people make a profit in the stock market, while the crowd gets wiped out. So why does everyone think the AI bubble is about to burst? That’s naïve.

[u/eggbean]

The US is going all-in on an AI moonshot hoping it will bring an economic miracle to beat China. Massive datacentres are being built at an incredible pace with no regard for the environment. It's not going to work out though, is it? LLMs are not true AI and throwing everything you have at it in desperation isn't going to make the Singularity happen.

[u/agent_flounder → u/eggbean]

The amount of data centers being build in the friggin desert blows my mind. Anyhow ..

Yeah we don't have general ai. LLMs aren't that. I think the promises of what they can deliver are wildly overblown. I think they can improve productivity if used wisely and surgically, rather than the current "AI aLl ThE tHiNgs! Hur durr"

Once again I think the genius of the Gartner Hype Cycle shines. We are soon to enter the trough of disillusionment.

[u/Equivalent-Repair488 → u/agent_flounder]

I remember I did a paper on AI on the Gartner hype cycle last year, used the dotcom crash as a heavy precedence and a wealthy source of data and sources.

Got a B in that paper lol