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AI crap | Drew DeVault's Blog (drewdevault.com)
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What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots. LLMs are a pretty good advance over Markov chains, and stable diffusion can generate images which are only somewhat uncanny with sufficient manipulation of the prompt. Mediocre programmers will use GitHub Copilot to write trivial code and boilerplate for them (trivial code is tautologically uninteresting), and ML will probably remain useful for writing cover letters for you. Self-driving cars might show up Any Day Now™, which is going to be great for sci-fi enthusiasts and technocrats, but much worse in every respect than, say, building more trains.

The biggest lasting changes from machine learning will be more like the following:

  • A reduction in the labor force for skilled creative work
  • The complete elimination of humans in customer-support roles
  • More convincing spam and phishing content, more scalable scams
  • SEO hacking content farms dominating search results
  • Book farms (both eBooks and paper) flooding the market
  • AI-generated content overwhelming social media
  • Widespread propaganda and astroturfing, both in politics and advertising
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I think Drew's pretty spot on about the future of AI. Would be interesting to discuss on the show (drewdevault.com)
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AI Crap – Drew Devault (drewdevault.com)
 
 

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AI crap (drewdevault.com)
 
 

https://archive.ph/Iw5sw

I have to say I feel in a similar way, but never had enough time allocated to put it to words.

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AI Crap – Drew Devault (drewdevault.com)
 
 

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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AI crap - Why ML will make the world worse, not better (drewdevault.com)
 
 

There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better.

What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots.

AI is defined by aggressive capitalism. The hype bubble has been engineered by investors and capitalists dumping money into it, and the returns they expect on that investment are going to come out of your pocket. The singularity is not coming, but the most realistic promises of AI are going to make the world worse. The AI revolution is here, and I don’t really like it.

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