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Part of me suspects that particular pivot is gonna largely fail to convince anyone - paraphrasing Todd In The Shadows "Witness" retrospective, other tech bubbles may have failed harder than AI, but nothing has failed louder.

The notion of "AI = "sentient" chatbots/slop generators" is very firmly stuck in the public consciousness, and pointing to AI being useful in some niche area isn't gonna paper over the breathlessly-promoted claims of Utopian Superintelligence When Its Done^tm or the terabytes upon terabytes of digital slop polluting the 'net.

I doubt it'll stop the worst people we know from trying, though - they're hucksters at heart, getting caught and publicly humiliated is unlikely to stop 'em.

If you wanna say “but AI is here to stay!” tell us what you mean in detail. Stick your neck out. Give your reasons.

I'm gonna do the exact opposite of this ending quote and say AI will be gone forever after this bubble (a prediction I've hammered multiple times before),

First, the AI bubble has given plenty of credence to the motion that building a humanlike AI system (let alone superintelligence) is completely impossible, something I've talked about in a previous MoreWrite. Focusing on a specific wrinkle, the bubble has shown the power of imagination/creativity to be the exclusive domain of human/animal minds, with AI systems capable of producing only low-quality, uniquely AI-like garbage (commonly known as AI slop, or just slop for short).

Second, the bubble's widespread and varied harms have completely undermined any notion of "artificial intelligence" being value-neutral as a concept. The large-scale art theft/plagiarism committed to create the LLMs behind this bubble (Perplexity, ChatGPT, CrAIyon, Suno/Udio, etcetera), and the large-scale harms enabled by these LLMs (plagiarism/copyright infringement, worker layoffs/exploitation, enshittification), and the heavy use of LLMs for explicitly fascist means (which I've noted in a previous MoreWrite) have all provided plenty of credence to notions of AI as a concept being inherently unethical, and plenty of reason to treat use of/support of AI as an ethical failing.

The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot. I compared chatbots to gambling and cocaine before, and Cursor fans are the most abject gutter krokodil addicts.

They're also easily comparable to psychics in how they con people, and of course there's all the reports of them crippling critical thinking and generally making you stupider.

So, these things are essentially brainrot-as-a-service.

trying to explain why a philosophy background is especially useful for computer scientists now, so i googled “physiognomy ai” and now i hate myself

Well, I guess there's your answer - "philosophy teaches you how to avoid falling for hucksters"

Its also completely accurate - AI bros are not only utterly lacking in any sort of skill, but actively refuse to develop their skills in favour of using the planet-killing plagiarism-fueled gaslighting engine that is AI and actively look down on anyone who is more skilled than them, or willing to develop their skills.

Someone finally flipped a switch. As of a few minutes ago, Grok is now posting far less often on Hitler, and condemning the Nazis when it does, while claiming that the screenshots people show it of what it’s been saying all afternoon are fakes.

LLMs are automatic gaslighting machines, so this makes sense

Sarah Skidd, in Arizona, was called in to fix some terrible chatbot website writing. She charged $100 an hour [...] Skidd now has a side business fixing these.

The AI bros were right - AI is creating new business opportunities /s

Where there’s muck, there’s brass. And sometimes the muck is toxic waste. And radioactive. So if you get called in to fix a vibe-slopchurned disaster, charge as much as you can. Then charge more than that.

If someone's using AI, its a sign that they're (a) Nigerian Prince levels of gullible and (b) an anti-human tech asshole who fundamentally does not respect labour. Scamming these kinds of people is a moral duty.

Another day, another jailbreak method - a new method called InfoFlood has just been revealed, which involves taking a regular prompt and making it thesaurus-exhaustingly verbose.

In simpler terms, it jailbreaks LLMs by speaking in Business Bro.

Zitron just dropped his latest premium column

"Another thing I expect is audiences becoming a lot less receptive towards AI in general - any notion that AI behaves like a human, let alone thinks like one, has been thoroughly undermined by the hallucination-ridden LLMs powering this bubble, and thanks to said bubble’s wide-spread harms […] any notion of AI being value-neutral as a tech/concept has been equally undermined. [As such], I expect any positive depiction of AI is gonna face some backlash, at least for a good while."

Me, two months ago

Well, it appears I've fucking called it - I've recently stumbled across some particularly bizarre discourse on Tumblr recently, reportedly over a highly unsubtle allegory for transmisogynistic violence:

You want my opinion on this small-scale debacle, I've got two thoughts about this:

First, any questions about the line between man and machine have likely been put to bed for a good while. Between AI art's uniquely AI-like sloppiness, and chatbots' uniquely AI-like hallucinations, the LLM bubble has done plenty to delineate the line between man and machine, chiefly to AI's detriment. In particular, creativity has come to be increasingly viewed as exclusively a human trait, with machines capable only of copying what came before.

Second, using robots or AI to allegorise a marginalised group is off the table until at least the next AI spring. As I've already noted, the LLM bubble's undermined any notion that AI systems can act or think like us, and double-tapped any notion of AI being a value-neutral concept. Add in the heavy backlash that's built up against AI, and you've got a cultural zeitgeist that will readily other or villainise whatever robotic characters you put on screen - a zeitgeist that will ensure your AI-based allegory will fail to land without some serious effort on your part.

My only hope for this is that the GPUs in these CDO spiritual successors become dirt cheap afterwards.

They hopefully will, since the end of the AI bubble will kill AI for good and crash GPU demand.

Bonus: He also appears to think LLM conversations should be exempt from evidence retention requirements due to ‘AI privilege’ (tweet).

Hot take of the day: Clankers have no rights, and that is a good thing

Sidenote: The rats should count themselves extremely fucking lucky they've avoided getting skewered by South Park, because Parker and Stone would likely have a fucking field day with their beliefs

Apparently linkedin’s cofounder wrote a techno-optimist book on AI called Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future.

This sounds like its going to be horrible

Zack of SMBC has thoughts on it:

Ah, good, I'll just take his word for it, the thought of reading it gives me psychic da-

the authors at one point note that in 1984, Big Brother's listening device means there is two way communication, and so the people have a voice. He wonders why Orwell didn't think of this.

The closest thing I have to a coherent response is that Boondocks clip of Uncle Ruckus going "Read, nigga, read!" (from Stinkmeaner Strikes Back, if you're wondering) because how breathtakingly stupid do you have to be to miss the point that fucking hard

“biological civilization is about to create artificial superintelligence” is it though?

I'm gonna give my quick-and-dirty opinion on this, don't expect a lengthy defence.

Short answer, no. Long answer: no, intelligence cannot be created by blindly imitating it with mere silicon

Nitpicking, but at what point do we start calling it race pseudoscience?

"Hating Black People" would be a more fitting name.

“Music is just like meth, cocaine or weed. All pleasure no value. Don’t listen to music.”

(Considering how many rationalists are also methheads, this joke wrote itself)

As a matter of fact, someone's noted Ed Zitron had called this back in September:

Ed Zitron's planning a follow-up to "The Subprime AI Crisis":

(Its gonna be a premium column, BTW)

EDIT: Swapped the image for one that's easier-to-read

This is pure speculation, but I get the feeling Microsoft's gonna significantly downsize, if not collapse, by the decade's end.

This recent move's gonna kneecap Microsoft's ability to function as a company, and their heavy investment into AI mean they'll likely take the brunt of the impact when the bubble bursts.