It would be trivial to just set up the operation on AWS or Microsoft servers in the US. I guess the reason the have not done it is that the US would have full insight in the software, users and social media accounts they’re using, which might be an issue if the government changes.

Surely there is no way this could backfire!

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.

But you assume that Putin had any diesel to ship, and that he is a reliable trade partner. He could just not ship anything, because In 3 days the senile man will have forgotten all about it and cause the next shitsorm.

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.