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This is a two-panel meme using the popular stylized Drake Hotline Bling reaction template. The top panel displays Drake making a rejecting, dismissive gesture with a negative expression, accompanied by the text 'Refusing to use AI so that the companies will go bankrupt'. The bottom panel shows Drake with a pleased, approving expression, pointing in endorsement, paired with the text 'Using so much AI that the companies go bankrupt'. The humorous joke relies on the widely known fact that running AI services requires extremely expensive data center infrastructure and operational costs, implying that over-consuming AI will force companies to incur unsustainably high costs and collapse, which is a far more effective way to achieve the goal of making AI companies go bankrupt than boycotting AI entirely.
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Refusing to use AI so that the companies will go bankrupt
Using so much AI that the companies go bankrupt

Overview

This is a two-panel meme using the popular stylized Drake Hotline Bling reaction template. The top panel displays Drake making a rejecting, dismissive gesture with a negative expression, accompanied by the text 'Refusing to use AI so that the companies will go bankrupt'. The bottom panel shows Drake with a pleased, approving expression, pointing in endorsement, paired with the text 'Using so much AI that the companies go bankrupt'. The humorous joke relies on the widely known fact that running AI services requires extremely expensive data center infrastructure and operational costs, implying that over-consuming AI will force companies to incur unsustainably high costs and collapse, which is a far more effective way to achieve the goal of making AI companies go bankrupt than boycotting AI entirely.

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This meme is sourced from the r/Meme subreddit on Reddit, as indicated by the provided RSS source information. It uses the iconic Drake Hotline Bling meme template which originates from the 2015 music video for Drake's song 'Hotline Bling', with custom text added referencing the high costs of AI data center operations, matching the post's original title 'Those data centers are not cheap'.

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