You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them
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You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them
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#2The argument seems to be that Metaverse was a flop and FB did bad stuff, therefore AI will be a flop.
That's certainly ... words.
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#3Everybody hates tech. Everybody hates tech billionaires. Nobody wants their bullshit.
Yes… kind of. I am old and always have been, so naturally I don’t like things I believe children falsely claim they cannot live without. Social media comes to mind.
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#4The argument seems to be that Metaverse was a flop and FB did bad stuff, therefore AI will be a flop. That's certainly ... words.
The more charitable take is that Big Tech has a track record of branding the 'future' primarily to manufacture FOMO, only for the reality to fall significantly short of the hype.
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#5This is a lot of words mixed with ragebait to try to argue that AI is a fad that will go away.
EDIT: This substack is non-stop grievances about AI posted multiple times per week. There's an audience of people who want to be as angry as possible about AI and this Substack is here to sell you subscriptions to that with gems like this designed to make you bristle with anger at the enemy
> They are trained on racism, misogyny, homophobia, ableism, nationalism, anti-Semitism
> The technology industry sells a story of inevitability. It is, in no small part, a profoundly anti-democratic story, one that dismisses if not denies any attempt at agency, let alone resistance. "There's nothing you can do," investors and CEOs and pundits parrot. "Resistance is futile," they smirk (yet another example of their incredible inability to understand the science fiction they like to reference).
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#6Everybody hates tech. Everybody hates tech billionaires. Nobody wants their bullshit. Yes… kind of. I am old and always have been, so naturally I don’t like things I believe children falsely claim they cannot live without. Social media comes to mind.
I wonder if she appreciates the irony of posting that on a website lol
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#7There's a big difference between things like Metaverse, social media and AI. The former are mainly entertainment/communication products that rely on network effects, so if people don't like them they're bust. AI is a capital good so it doesn't need to be popular as long as it does profitable work
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#8> The future that the vast majority of people want – for themselves, for their children – is not one in which we can only afford to buy digital replicas of products and digital real estate
Sure. Everybody wants real things. Nobody wants to work in factory assembly lines or construction sites. But it must be AI's fault.
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#9This is a lot of words mixed with ragebait to try to argue that AI is a fad that will go away. EDIT: This substack is non-stop grievances about AI posted multiple times per week. There's an audience of people who want to be as angry as possible about AI and this Substack is here to sell you subscriptions to that with gems like this designed to make you bristle with anger at the enemy > They are trained on racism, mis…
I don't see the author implying that AI is a fad that will go away. I see her stating that "AI", as envisioned and sold by many tech oligarchs to their audiences, is not the inevitable future.
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#10This is a lot of words mixed with ragebait to try to argue that AI is a fad that will go away. EDIT: This substack is non-stop grievances about AI posted multiple times per week. There's an audience of people who want to be as angry as possible about AI and this Substack is here to sell you subscriptions to that with gems like this designed to make you bristle with anger at the enemy > They are trained on racism, mis…
i dont think its crazy to expect a big contraction in AI hype and funding. I dont understand how they will all be profitable when you can run a model on your own computer for free that will do 98% of what you need.