New premium column from Ed Zitron: Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
BlueMonday1984
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Same here. The world's been forced to deal with these promptfucks ruining everything they touch for literal years at this point, some degree of schadenfreude at their expense was sorely fucking needed.
Heartwarming: There Actually Is Justice In This World
Pure, unfiltered schadenfreude for today - this was a very fun read.
"For those in writing related jobs, they may find lucrative work cleaning up attempts to sidestep them with AI slop, squeezing hefty premiums from desperate clients who find themselves lacking leverage over them.
Well, seems I was pretty close - NBC news recently reported humans are being hired to clean up AI slop. My prediction it would be lucrative was off the mark, though - artists called in for de-slopping work are getting paid less than if they were simply hired to create the work themselves. Clearly, I was being overly optimistic.
You want my take, anyone who gets hired for slop cleanup should try to squeeze as much cash out their clients as much as possible - they showed open contempt for humanity by choosing a clanker, they need to be shown the consequences.
I still remember the outcry when Harambe was shot. Shit truly does feel like the point where everything began turning to shit.
Someone I know argued that Harambe's death led to Trump's election, and its been burned into my mind ever since:
To give some slack to HitchBOT, the design at least had some personality to it. That is a lot more than you can give the average tech-related thing these days, especially in an age of AI slop.
By my guess, the servers and datacentres powering the LLMs will end up as the AI bubble's Range Rover equivalent - they're obscenely expensive for AI corps to build and operate, and are practically impossible to finance without VC billions. Once the bubble bursts and the billions stop rolling in, I expect the servers to be sold off for parts and the datacentres to be abandoned.
New Baldur Bjarnason: The melancholy of history rhyming, comparing the AI bubble with the Icelandic banking bubble, and talking about the impending fallout of its burst.
Found a Pivot to AI candidate in the wild: Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda
I also found a call for ethics training in engineering, and someone's horror story about ethics training alongside it.
And if you want to avoid that, you have to use a coin with some form of automatic money laundering built in (e.g. Monero), which brings its own legal problems for you and everyone working with you.