Anyone else experiencing slow speeds? Having websites go down? AI is now universally overloading website host and internet Bandwidth capacity. No matter how much they build it will still never keep up. This is going to just get much worse. Website owners and internet users are suffering already to make sure everyone else has their digital toy. The worst is that AI bots are crawling and scraping sites so fast, so often, and in so many numbers that it locks them up like a DDoS attack. And those domains who are charged by the amount of bandwidth they use a month by their hosts are paying extra out the nose so that the rest of the world can play with their toys. It is completely unsustainable... It is going to kill the internet as we know it.
I am finding that sometimes my speed is no faster that Dialup was. And I am constantly battling it on a domain to keep it from killing it. It is time to have discussions about some serious self defense from this bandwidth theft monstrosity. Time to hold hosts and AI providers accountable for this very negative situation. The rest of the internet should not suffer and sacrifice so that these few MegaTech Corporations can profit.
“customer service”
Ha! Has anybody gotten anything close to a useful response from customer service AI? In my experience, it is useless. Verizon openly brags about its AI customer service, but it is the worst.
As for banks, I still get AI responses like “I can do things like tell you your balance or your last check that cleared.” Useless!
This is all very true, but creative people come up with solutions that alleviate the problem of high data usage. I am currently putting together a very inexpensive system capable of running Ollama and running open source AI models and serving them to other computers in our network. This will work even when our connection is down. Of course when connected it will be able serve over the internet as well.
AI is very scalable and does not have to be in the corporate image that most people imagine.
AI is like a gun. It is a wonderful tool if it it aimed away from you. If it is aimed at you, expect to get hurt.
HeadquartersTurns out an address check shows "Suite 100" at that address to be:
9200 E. Mineral Ave Suite 100
Centennial, CO 80112
Thrive Workplace - Centennial -- 9200 E Mineral Ave STE 100, Centennial, CO 80112As to the site:
"GCF creates a positive environment where employees, consultants and suppliers to give back to the community and help those struggling with homelessness, abuse, natural disasters and hardship."Sounds like they broker mostly online between supplier and end customer, a middleman of sorts. And they care.
We heard the same things with web crawlers way back when. We heard the same things when YouTube, Napster, and porno started. We heard the same thing with Netflix streaming we heard when everyone went to streaming. We are hearing it now with AI. I’m pretty sure capitalists will solve this issue. I have faster internet on my cell phone then I was ever able to get with cable. There are 8500 starling satellites already. I would expect more fear so governments can crack down harder on internet access since they are failing at content.
AI the new virus that feeds on the world
Bfl
Starlink 3 will do it.
Grok:
Starlink Version 3 (V3) refers to the next-generation satellites in SpaceX’s satellite internet constellation, designed for significantly higher capacity and performance compared to earlier versions like V2 Mini. These satellites are larger and more advanced, with deployments planned via Starship launches starting in 2025.
Key Speed Specifications
Downlink Capacity: Up to 1 Tbps (1,000 Gbps) per satellite, representing over 10x the capacity of previous generations.
Uplink Capacity: Up to 160 Gbps per satellite, about 24x the uplink of prior versions.
Latency: Expected to be under 20 ms, thanks to low Earth orbit and improved laser inter-satellite links that are 40% faster than fiber optics.
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