Why would anyone bother making consumer RAM for cheap when they can use that manufacturing capacity to make it for the AI datacenters instead, who pay a premium?
When the king orders 1000 cakes, the baker isn’t going to be making bread for the peasants.
And just like spam detection, as the AI detection tools are looking for artifacts and glitches that are the result of the generation, the only way to get around them is to improve the output to be cleaner and more human-like.
The end result is either hitting the limit with generation and being able to block most of it, or surpassing the ability for content detection, making it essentially indistinguishable from real content. Which is either a great, or a really horrible result, depending on your stance on listening to AI music, i.e do you dislike it because it current sounds bad, or on principle because it wasn’t made by a human no matter how good it is.
I don’t know if it’s different where you are, but here in Finland the generics (in store brands) are actually quite often made by the same big local brands, but depending on your food label laws it can be impossible to determine. Here they need to tell the country and actual manufacturer in the packaging making it easy.
It actually kinda is, the price has been $29 since 1995, adjusted for inflation they should be asking for $64 today.
Question the artificial instead. It can mean man made, but can also mean fake, and LLMs are definitely excellent at faking being intelligent.
Yet extremely understandable. On the global market, a phone without WhatsApp is basically a phone that cannot text people. For example, in Germany or Spain, 90% of internet users also use WhatsApp.
It would be like trying to sell a streaming box/tv and deciding that because Google is evil it doesn’t support YouTube.
Technically, they are buying manufacturing capacity. Datacenters don’t use consumer DDR5 sticks with epic RGB lighting, they use server grade hardware, and are contracting the manufacturers to make stuff for them at high premiums. That means they either aren’t making consumer hardware at all - causing shortages - or if they are, they are asking a premium because they could be using the time better making the server stuff.
Kind of like a medieval baker - if the king offers to buy 1000 cakes from you at a ridiculous price, you aren’t going to be spending time baking any bread for the peasants to eat.
US military spending is roughly $2.5 billion a day.
Well, true. People, I.e private companies, can do all kinds of silly things like respect their workers, or think about the future, or prioritise a myriad of things that aren’t just short-term profits and investor pockets. For them, the term growth isn’t just about revenue and a graph on the stock market.
That doesn’t really work with a publicly traded company, especially when the people in charge get a bonus based on quarterly profits, even if the company makes decisions that destroy it in the future. Memory manufacturers know damn well this isn’t in any way a long term sustainable situation, but they are making the most (money) of it while they can.