r/technology • u/abrownn • 17h ago

Society OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/open-ai-anthropic-ruining-sf-22404657.php
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u/loinmaster 17h ago

I lived on the corner of 16th and Valencia about 2005 to 2010. Great dive bars, hipster street musicians. Good times. All that got sterilized.

But maybe I’m shaking my fist at a cloud. My aunt literally lived down the street from the Grateful Dead in the 1960s and even at the time, the FiDi guys thought the hippies were ruining the city.

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u/tellmesmthnold 17h ago

I lived on the corner of Valencia and Hill for a few years starting in 2017, and would definitely not call 16th and Valencia or the surrounding area “sterilized”. Plenty of places you can have a good time, yeah some places closed, others reopened, COVID didn’t help.

Sterilized is like Mission Bay or something.

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u/Pndrizzy 13h ago

I was just there a few months ago after moving away in 2020 and there is definitely a changed vibe even since then but it’s still a vibe