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10 months agoThat tile work was on the building before it was converted. But it might have helped when they were selecting the location.
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I’m sure it’s a mixed bag, with plenty of small companies jumping in.
I own a very small company, but I also write a lot of our code, and we’re not touching anything “AI”. Not in our code, not in our products, not in any system we can keep it out of: We just migrated our last server from Azure a couple of weeks ago, we’re dumping MS Office this year, and starting the long slow migration from Windows desktop to Linux as an option for our customers (we’ve long been Linux on our servers, but have a lot of desktop software that needs to stay on the desktop).
But it’s everywhere. I had a call from our phone system vendor a couple of weeks ago. He kept trying to sell me their new AI call attendant, and couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t subject our customers to that BS. It’s been forced into our accounting software, billing software, cloud backup, everywhere you look it’s there now.
Had the same thing happen on one of my servers. Got up one day a few weeks ago and the server was suspended (luckily the hosting provider unsuspended it for me quickly).
It’s mostly business sites, but we do have an old personal blog on there with a lot of travel pictures on it, and 4 or 5 AI bots were just pounding it. Went from 300GB per month average to 5TB on August, and 10/11 TB in September and October.