There was a twitter bot needacreditcard that would repost tweets with images and the word credit card in the text. It was full of tweets from mostly kids who bragged to their friends that they can now go shopping. And yes, some also posted the backside if you asked nicely.
That’s not how it works. The ram chips soldered onto the AI accelerator cards, you cannot just take them out and use them in a PC :(
Not everyone has a GPU with enough RAM. I have a 3060 with 12GB, and I cannot run ollama and a 3D game at the same time. As soon as ollama starts processing, the GPU is at 100% and game and ollama start swapping data in and out of the GPU RAM, which means the whole computer becomes unresponsive for a long time. I had to set up a script that disables ollama if steam is running.
the Michael Bay of video game settings!
People won’t play forever. Even good games are only played for maybe 100h before some other new game comes along. If you know the average game time you can calculate the ai costs.
Do share!
Don’t forget that it also has a digital watch and calculator build in. Two things that where always added to 1970s premium tech products :)
the first implant doctors you meet in the tutorial is a lookalike from the Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Memonic.
Your tax dollars at work!
That is true, but now they rather have a digital proof for insurance reasons.
They can open bank or crypto accounts in his name, and then either overdraw the account or use it to move money from other scams in and out of this account, so the real scammers name is not attached to this account.
Trips to other countries are getting to expensive, i imagine…?
Their party: “Don’t worry, we promise to kill you last!”
Surely there is no way this could backfire!