Good
Preach, I hope they fuck themselves with all this stupid ass AI
the day that these guys need to turn a profit will be the day that a lot of people lose access to this sort of thing
In other words, they want to hook up users and companies, make them dependent, and then rise up the prices severely while finding ways to process and incorporate all of the data they’ve gathered in ways that will probably involve automating the jobs of the users themselves.
aka enshittification
Man I cannot fucking wait until this stupid goddamn bubble pops
And what happens when a bubble bursts? Did the internet die when the dotcom bubble burst, or is that just when it really started to get going?
I share most of your sentiments against AI, but a bubble popping won’t make it go away, and it won’t even rectify it to be more to people’s likings (i doubt it). It takes more than just waiting around to accomplish that.
Me too. I can then go back to 3D printing quantum blockchains out of room temperature superconductors in my private space station with Katy Perry.
I find that hard to believe right up until the point you mentioned Katy.
If she’s good enough for Justin, she’s good enough for me.
Im so tired of this stupud fucking refrain. Cause we all know how housing got so mich better after 08 and how we dont have any more dot coms and how the internet got so much better since that bubble. You people have no idea what your even asking for.
The problem is that when a bubble pops and exposes the problem, the government leaders should take the opportunity to fix the problem so it doesn’t happen again.
Instead they bail them all out, so there are not only no consequences to their actions, they are literally rewarded with unimaginable wealth. What about this strategy would induce them to change their ways, over doing it all over again, and getting rewarded again?
the bubble pops and then everything comes back, in an “improved” version. Imagine: ChatGPT with ads and sponsored answers.
Just like that one black mirror episode.
It’s interesting that the media sites that historically steered clear of economics are starting to talk about it (this is not a new revelation)
Yes, this is part of the business model. The goal is to get everyone addicted to their service, then jack the price up to profitable margins. It’s the same model Netflix and Amazon used. Bothe services lost money for over 10 years before becoming profitable.
Venture capitalism is what it’s called, I think
It is not venture capitalism. Though it is fueled by venture capitalism. I am describing the type of car and you are calling it gasoline. They’re most distinctly not the same thing.
However it should be noted there both a part of the same corrosion of our society. Just how automobiles that run on gasoline are a corrosion on our atmosphere.
Venture capitalism is when you give somebody money to start a business in hopes that they make it big, giving you really valuable equity for relatively little money. What you’re thinking of is blitzscaling. Scale up in an unsustainable way in order to gain market dominance, so that you can use that to become profitable.
So what I am learning is that I should start vibe coding even the small scripts that are less than 10 lines.
Done. I will start doing that.
Caveat: this applies to literally every new technology especially in the VC funded world.
Basically, the only reason some of these vaguely functional AI tools actually work okay is because they haven’t been ruined with inevitable monetisation yet.
Already the cost is quite high. A prolific year can easily burn 100usd a day in tokens and they have not even started to enshitify.
Some of the cost to run these models will come down a bit if Nvidia gets some actual competition which I’m sure will happen in the medium to long term because the hyper scalers definitely don’t like paying Nvidia’s AI ransom and the Chinese don’t want to be beholden to a company the US can influence.
We will see which happens first.
AI reminds me of how nuclear fusion has been around for decades, and you would read the occasional article about some small advancement and it always seemed to be 10 years away and then suddenly they are building a power plant somewhere when it doesn’t even work yet.
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You mean Clippy++ 2.0 auto-complete with jpgs isn’t a business model?
Good. Costs is the key point to get rid of it.
They are in the train the trainer phase where developers are training their models and getting some benefit from the results it spits out.
The enshitification will begin soon. They have already talked about inserting ads in responses.
I fear people will grow attached to AI chats, which will emotionally manipulate them into buying stuff or supporting specific causes. The ads on a platform like this are going to make google AdWords and pay per click feel like advertising in the newspaper.
In capitalism, everything is a bubble, even capitalism itself. The AI one is going to burst at some point. Then AI becomes a normal thing in the background like everything else we have gone through in this dumbass of a timeline.
Selling grain for coal, coal for iron and iron for paper is capitalism, but not a bubble.
Whether it becomes a normal thing depends on the cost.
That’s not capitalism, that’s a market.
Isn’t this just the tech industry. Run at a loss. Eat VC money. Wait. Wait.
Some how you become normalized and suddenly important Next thing you know you’re raking profit.
Like the guy that has no friends who nobody really likes. He won’t go away. He just sticks around. Nobody ever told him to fuck off. So he’s just part of the group.
after crypto, and Now AI, they will be chasing whatever faux tech that comes out next.
and then you go on linkedin and all the middle manager tech bros will hail it as the second coming.
