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Idk why tf they're so hell bent on AI, I get that they need a return on their shitty investments but my god the level of detachment from the general public is insane
Because AIs don’t need salaries, don’t unionize, can work 24/7.
For some tasks, AI has already completely obsoleted humans. An AI can write a shitty PR filled newsletter faster and cheaper than a human. It keeps getting better at certain tasks, like programming.
All AI companies want to be the one that controls the best AI. Because if they do, then other companies will pay them to rent out AIs for cheaper than human labor.
Companies fear falling behind. So they dump loads of money into AI. And currently, investors like hearing about AI. So the more companies say and push AI, it increases investment into the company.
It’s way more insidious. “AI” is very much LLMs, or Large language Models. The one thing they excel at is ingesting large amounts of text and summarizing, or looking for key points, as directed, and sometimes with non-exact directions.
Large amounts of text, like your browsing history, your personal cloud-stored files, your chats and messages your email. Your taxes. Your bank records. Your not-yet filed patents. Your medical research. Your political donations. Your protest plans. Your sources for the journalism you are doing.
At scale, society-wide. Zoom back and predict the markets overall sentiment. Zoom in down to a single “undesirable”.
All that “it’ll do human creative jobs you have to pay so much for, and if you reduce headcount you’ll get a nice bonus” is for all the short-thinking middle management and vapid C-levels to get suckered by the Mechanical Turk show into think they’ll get a bonus this quarter by putting all their sensitive information on someone else’s computer.
And once their IT staff is minimized and hardware is out of reach, you have achieved vendor lock-in.
And it’s absolutely incredible how literally everyone seems to have fallen for this shiny turd.
I mean cmon, “Palantir”? They were literally created for this purpose.
If you happen to want to know more on why, there are 2 podcasts that talk about this on a very regular basis:
I think thatsa great description of Zitron. His efitorial style initially turned me off but he is thorough and shows his sources for the factual sides of his arguments.
thank you for this, I'll def check it out!
thay have already made the investment and they desperately want the return
It's just strange that instead of pushing for return they are pushing for more investment instead
they are. they need people to be as dependent on it as possible so they can then push for ransom.
even then, no way they can get their trillion dollar investment back like this, they are probably just trying to push the pop further as long as they possibly can while maneuvering to be on top when it all comes down.
Yeah, I don't get it either. I read that only 3% of companies using "ai" saw a return on investment. Companies started re-hiring the humans because the "ai" turns out to be shit. We can't even produce the power to run these models at scale.