Based on a sarcastic comment I made a little bit ago but kept thinking about.

For a long time now (before the current AI bubble, even), the majority of stocks traded have been performed by algorithms using machine learning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_trading

Tech companies keep developing AI-powered solutions because it’s a quick way to earn money through stocks. The majority of profit in the stock market right now is coming from AI slop.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/ai-bubble-cisco-moment-dotcom-crash-nvidia-jensen-huang-top-analyst/

So, when the majority of stocks being traded are decided by AI, and it just happens that the most profitable investments are likewise boosting AI development, is this essentially AI using the mechanics of capitalism to self-select its own advancement?

  • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    No

    self-select its own advancement

    It’s a program that writes text, that’s why it’s called a “Large Language Model”; “AI” is just a hype term.

    It’s not self-aware, it can’t make arbitrary decisions, and it doesn’t have free will

    (PS I’m interpreting “AI” as "LLM"s, since other kind of Machine Learning models have been used for many years before we came up with the LLMs we have today)