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Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/tech@piefed.world/p/2026105/character-ai-has-initiated-voluntary-chapter-11-bankruptcy
blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
Replying to @Beep@feddit.online
Guessing re-creating a whole ass person with a personality that considers everything you’ve told it is actually quite a bit more expensive than people want to pay for.
Anyway, it’s good news if these freaks start running their bots locally instead.
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
The environmental impact of AI would be a tenth of what it is now if people just ran whatever models they want on their own local machines. We’re mortgaging the next fifty years worth of compute power and meanwhile mfs who talk to virtual girlfriends on their $2,000 gaming PC have trillions of FLOPS of compute power sitting right next to them.
Replying to @NateNate60@lemmy.world
Why is that? The electricity burned is about the same, no? Of course, the impact is more distributed.
I think the difference would be that local machines aren’t subsidized, so you’d see people get a lot more skittish after that first electric bill. Data centers are like railroad tracks from the railroad boom (if they’d made the rails out of licorice twizzlers.)
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
If you watch your PC grind to a halt generating 1 image over 5 minutes, it makes it less appealing to queue up 1,000 and cherry-pick the best; let alone making videos. It’s too easy right now to use a ruinous amount of compute power for something stupid like a fake dog video without even realising the cost