Fuck AI

That’s a little extreme.

“AI” that actually works is much more modest than you think: it’s trained on small, focused, curated, legally licensed datasets mixed with synthetic data. It’s small and task focused. It’s heavily augmented and constrained to actually do what it’s supposed to, and not a bajillion other things.

It’s getting lower power. If bitnet takes off, inference costs will plummet, which means a lot will probably just be done on phones, with more control from the user.

Don’t get me wrong, AI is still going to be sloppy shit. This kind of stuff is going to be the norm, and way worse.

…But I think a “race to the bottom” will be a mixed bag, not pure cyberpunk. There’s a point where some uses get so cheap and “good enough,” it’s just too cheap to sell. Like someone trying to charge money for basic text editors. This is why the tech bros push the existential AGI angle so hard, as “devolving” into sets of specialized tools means their profit scheme implodes… Hence, hopefully, lazy landlords will have something a little less shitty to make an ad with than ChatGPT.