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Fuck Sam Altmann, the fartsniffer who convinced himself & a few other dumb people that his company really has the leverage to make such demands.
"Oh, but democracy!" - saying that in the US of 2025 is a whole 'nother kind of dumb.
Anyhow, you don't give a single fuck about democracy, you're just scared because a chinese company offers what you offer for a fraction of the price/resources.
Your scared for your government money and basically begging for one more handout "to save democracy".
Yes, I've been listening to Ed Zitron.
Fartsniffer 🤣
gosh Ed Zitron is such an anodyne voice to hear, I felt like I was losing my mind until I listened to some of his stuff
Yeah, he has the ability to articulate what I was already thinking about LLMs and bring in hard data to back up his thesis that it’s all bullshit. Dangerous and expensive bullshit, but bullshit nonetheless.
It’s really sad that his willingness to say the tech industry is full of shit is such an unusual attribute in the tech journalism world.
What is interesting is if he didn't pretty regularly say in so many words " why the fuck AM I the guy who is sounding the alarm here?? " I would be much more skeptical of his points. He isn't someone that is directly aligned with the industry, at least not in an "authoritative expert capable of doing a thorough takedown of a bubble/hype mirage" sense that you would expect someone sounding the alarm on a bubble to be. I mean I can tell the guy likes the attention (not in a bad sense really), but he seems utterly genuine in the attitude of " wtf, well ok I will do it... but like seriously I AM the guy who is sounding the alarm here? This isn't honestly my direct area of expertise? I will provide you a thorough explantion with proof.. but my argument really isn't complicated, it is just 'business doesn't make money why will no one acknowledge that' and it breaks my brain that people that are experts in directly adjacent/relevant things can't see this....? am I high? "
.... cus yeah Ed Zitron, that is how a lot of us fucking feel right now.
(these aren't direct quotes, I was summarizing, go watch/listen to some of Ed Zitron's stuff, none of his arguments hinge on anything unreasonable or especially complicated, which is the worrying part..)