Tim Sweeney Just Won't Shut Up About Steam
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  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    404·
    15 days ago

    Since when the fuck has AI been partisian? It sounds like he’s trying to make it partisian. In reality, everyone hates the data centers. The only thing that’s partisan-adjacent is that the Trump administration (Trump specifically) loves it, but that’s just because he’s a boomer and boomers, for some reason I do not yet understand, tend to like the shitty photo/video generative AI more than others.

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      15 days ago

      People like this have two reasons to make it partisan:

      1. It’s a way for them to stay delusionally self-victimized since “AI would be a total success if it weren’t for that group of haters” and it’s convenient to make the haters the political out-group, since typically these people already view themselves as tragically oppressed politically (while somehow having all of the power and being the only oppressors themselves).
      2. If they succeed in making it partisan, that means they gain about 30% of the population as supporters via political team sports, versus 90% bipartisan hate right now.
    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      142·
      15 days ago

      The only reason Trump loves it is because it’s propping up our entire economy.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        AI companies are also paying for tons of political advertising, and republicans are using it most to create their ads too.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      As aggravating as this might be to hear, there is at least one state where workers unions have been pro-datacenter under the belief that the work to build them will at least bring them some contracting/construction jobs. Some states are destitute enough to accept anything, even if it’s only a short-term bandaid for their economic troubles.