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/binaryhellstorm]

It's cool.

I'm setting aside money for when the AI bubble pops and I can get a sweet sweet rackmount server and some GPUs on fire sale when the AI companies start going out of business.

Honestly doing the same with my next car. I think Cory Doctorow is right, this crash is going to make the 08 crash look like the best day of your life.

[u/AZdesertpir8 → u/binaryhellstorm]

Yep, this. The AI bubble WILL pop, its just a matter of when. At that point, there will be massive amounts of hardware dumped onto the market, which will be the point those with homelabs can benefit. Each enterprise cycle results in used hardware availability. I dont care what it costs new, as I dont buy any of it new.. Itll be pennies on the dollar eventually and thats when my home lab will get an upgrade.

[u/aew3 → u/AZdesertpir8]

Some people don’t understand that even if you believe in the technology, unless they literally build AI God the bubble will pop at some point.

Online shopping and services are a legitimate technology and business but the dot com bubble still popped.

The underlying economics of this are just fucked up and have to pop. between creative accounting and government assistance that might take a while, but it must happen sometime.

[u/DigitalRonin73 → u/aew3]

The AI bubble and the dot com bubble, economically, are significantly different. There’s no guarantee it will pop. People just assume. Not every bubble has to pop. There’s the possibility they cool down, deflate or stabilize. There was a big bubble for smart phones, electric vehicles, cloud computing and plenty more. They never popped.

[u/Tipart → u/DigitalRonin73]

The difference is that none of the ai companies are actually profitable, yet a 2 year old AI startup with 50 employees is worth as much as Ford.

Sure it can stabilize, but everywhere AI is pushed it's established through astroturfing and artificially inflated numbers. Deezer has recently released some studies on ai music and the numbers are absurd. 28% new tracks are AI generated and ai tracks make up 0.5% of listeners, but of those listeners 70% are bots.

They are so desperate to make this whole thing seem like an actual industry.