Yep. They‘re putting out what they call huge breakthroughs on a weekly basis for months and make headlines. By the time they have been put into perspective or straight out debunked and torn to shreds by the global scientific community, they already squeezed out another wild claim to overshadow criticism. Rinse and repeat. There is a reason the overwhelming majority of AI generated slob studies come from China. They want fast results and know the press won‘t really read them and instead just quote whatever they claim.

Exactly. There is no end to this and it‘s hardly uplifting news when it isn’t much of news but speculation instead.

Love me some uplifting news but this is just naive. There is no reason to believe they’ll suddenly do a U-turn on their rise in emissions.

They’re doing exactly what non-Bambu buyers have been warning about beat by beat. Nobody should be surprised or really shocked by any of this.

And yet it’s just depressing to see because despite all the red flags and foreshadowing, Bambu technically developed a next level printer and has at the very least put pressure on competitors to improve their products.

Now I wonder if we have to worry about other Manufacturers following lead about the bad things too. Because I suspect people who proudly and publicly trashed their entire printer fleet in favor of Bambu probably won’t make the switch back any time soon. If this doesn’t hit Bambu hard, it might become common practice and potentially get much worse until we got chipped filament spools for 3 to 4 times the price.

These lazy Pandas of the 3D-Printer community might proof both critics and the walled garden approach that already plagues home printing right by putting their head between their legs and let themselves get beaten up by Bambu. That’s my fear.

If I remember correctly the entire home 3D printing industry was held back by patents for decades. It was technically possible and feasible for much longer than we have commercially available 3D printers, but one or two businesses held all the patents and made it impossible to sell them cheap.

I’m starting to learn that patent trolling is a much bigger problem than we give it attention for.

The worst example I’ve heard so far is a US patent on fungi or mycelium as a plastic and styrofoam alternative. Think biking helmets or packaging material. That’s almost like granting a patent for wood as a construction material. It’s outrageous and seriously damaging progress across the globe because no one gets funding for something you can’t sell in the US.

It also builds coal power plants. How is it going to reduce emissions exactly?

As usual China is the trendsetter of horrific digital developments and they‘ve been using heavy filters by default for so long I was almost hoping we‘d skip out on this one.

I‘m not looking forward to scrolling through family photos soon and barely recognize the people in them because my boomer family forgot to uncheck a box somewhere and didn‘t really notice we‘re all looking like Tom Cruise or Scarlet Johansson lookalikes all of the sudden.

Their end goal is to force AI on us to a degree that we‘re not even allowed to make our own decisions. Instead the almighty algorithm will decide what we buy and we just have to live with it because they spent a lot of lobbying money to make it legally waterproof. Your complaints won‘t matter even when the algorithm is shit and buys a dolphin dildo that you never wanted. It‘s always right so you can‘t return anything. And yes this is from the sci-fi novel Qualityland, which is becoming more and more reality by the day and I hate it. (The reality, not the book. The book is decent.)

Actually AI just stands for Africans & Indians who work in the background to sell the illusion that at least some AI driven applications somewhat work sometimes.

I remember a statistic claiming that at the peak of the Iraq war, the annually power consumption of US military ACs alone exceeded that of the African continent.

German here. There is no labor shortage, just a shortage of decent job offerings because lo behold employers are stingy.

Election year in the US and EU while Russia is invading a neighbor and China possibly preparing to do the same. There couldn‘t have been a worse time for LLMs to be so accessible, capable and fairly unregulated. The perfect conditions to make this year the worst for internet content we‘ve ever seen. By a landslide. We will look at the last 10 years and feel nostalgic on how good these years were with their little bot armies, cute clickbait and adorable fake news.