“Today, AI is the voice in the drive-thru that can’t hear our orders. It’s killing the livelihood of creative workers. It’s the thing you have to do at work, whether you like it or not. It’s making search engines unusable. It’s a justification for corporate layoffs. It’s plagiarism. It’s killing information access. It’s taking credit for the work of visual effects artists. It’s a serial liar. It’s harming our critical thinking and memory skills. It’s mecha-Hitler. It’s the really annoying popup. It’s wealth inequality. It’s a crutch for the loneliness epidemic. It’s the industrial polluter. It’s the scammer faking your voice for predatory phone calls. It’s the military-industrial complex. It’s the book that could kill you. It’s exploiting social media algorithms with fake content.”

na, it’s environmental impact exceeds is usefulness

Personally what I hate is not the tech developments being labelled “AI”. It’s the industry behind it, and how much it filths itself with deception.

This sort of neural network is good for small and menial tasks, where accuracy is not too important but volume is. For that you don’t need large models, you need smaller ones, that take a fraction of the data and energy to process (“train”). Then you’d advertise them for what they are - a bunch of useful tools.

But we’re talking about an industry led by con artists, billionaires, liars and vulture capital. Their eyes get bloody in rage, if they don’t see smoke and mirrors; they don’t care about truth, but appearances. It needs to look “grandiose”, it needs “hype”, it needs “marketability”. It needs all that “AGI SOON!”.

So the models get bigger, bigger, and bigger. But not necessarily better; more sycophant, more assumptive, more energy-demanding.

Then you plug everything wrote in the article as a consequence.