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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
    3·
    12 hours ago

    These orgs aren’t so high on their own farts that they ignore this.

    You make some interesting points.

    But…the vast majority of corporate decision making for the last ten years is solid evidence that they are 100% high on their own farts.

    LLM is the bit that you can plug into the past century of computing developments to enable much greater autonomy.

    Interesting point. But the folks giving these things autonomy are mostly just creating huge messes, right now, and then claiming victory and taking a quick bow before the stage caves in.

    The places we do see success are where no human could be patient enough - which is the stuff computers were already better at, than us.

    As you point out, all that can be fixed.

    But it’s all already not worth the money invested, before they build dozens more data centers in the hope that they can fix it. There’s just massive amounts of magic thinking going on, by investors.

    I do agree with your point that there’s probably somethings that are useful and some that are dangerous on the other side of this.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 hours ago

      But…the vast majority of corporate decision making for the last ten years is solid evidence that they are 100% high on their own farts.

      Completely agree, but in the gap left by “vast majority”, these guys don’t seem to be behaving entirely like your conventional consumer squeezing companies, they seem to be playing a much more collusive game at the very least

      But it’s all already not worth the money invested

      That’s the flaw in the common view of this. You’re looking too short term. The second someone can offer to replace a business owners employees for half price, it’s basically infinite money.

      That is what they’re pouring all the money in for: a chance at that prize. A chance at replacing all paid work with an automation they own.