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I continue to believe the white hot rage at AI deserves a wide berth and is a useful tool that can be leveraged to dislodge fascism because if we don't do that, absolutely nothing else is going to matter

If one side is gonna grasp for power by scapegoating trans kids and immigrants while the other side grasps for power by scapegoating AI, there’s no question in my mind which side I wanna be on.

not much of a choice, is it

Put the blame on the technology creators, but mostly the consultants that are hyping the shit out of AI. They have been systematically scaring the crap out of clients and themselves to be ahead of the curve against their competition. This is driving IT departments nuts and…

…creating insecure slop and tech debt disguised as “competitive advantage”.

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion the entire market will collapse once the insiders and the banksters have finished unloading the Space X, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs to the suckers . . . I mean, to retail investors?

by the time the public wakes up all of those guys will be off hyping quantum computing or something else it's basically what this country is, quite foundationally, from the era of the huckster with his cocaine-cough syrup cart to now

From the word go. A distant ancestor of mine was one of the suckers. He was in the lucky 10% that survived their first year as an indentured servant.

And this doesn't even get into the real harms of AI use such as reduced critical thinking skills (and possibly never developing various cognitive skills for children using them). In programming, for instance, there's a study showing coders using AI don't have a good mental map of the code...

As usual, nail right on the head. The largest problems with AI are absolutely NOT what AI is capable of, or what it would take to get it work, but the approach towards it by the people who'll nominally control it's destiny and just what a horrible way they've sold the whole endeavor.

thank you! in many ways the actual software is the least interesting or important part of all of this

100% The approach to making these tools usable, safe and valuable is critical to make this work. Selling this to bosses as wholesale labor replacement, not giving a shit about how models are trained, and being completely unethical about training data procurement undermines many of the upsides.