Even the AI just wants to die.
AI’s business model is starting to look like a snake eating its own tail: scrape human work, replace the humans who make it, flood the web with synthetic sludge, then wonder why there’s less quality data to train on. Silicon Valley calls it disruption. Everyone else might call it burning the furniture to heat the house.
Burning the furniture to heat the house is such a good analogy, wow.
Pretty sure some of that furniture was structural
Load-bearing, some might say
Shitting the nest is a more abrasive analogy for when you really mean it.
I think “Shitting where you eat” works a little better, given they’re shutting all over the internet, which is where their training data comes from
I’ve heard shitting on your own doorstep. Doesn’t fit as nicely as the furniture analogy though IMO 😆
I cant recall the source (I think it was a Telegraph article) but it only took current AIs 7 “rounds” to confuse its data amongst each other and it was 11 or 12 before it becomes completely corrupted. The testers basically used ChatGPT, Grok etc etc to search each other and they just had massive brain farts at the 7th round of questioning.
Best thing you could probably do at this point is make slop and pass it off as real work.
When AI removes the need for so many jobs and people can’t afford purchases and the economy collapses (again), how will the world’s governments act? I can’t see the US ever introducing universal basic income and the vast majority of countries simply can’t afford it. I think AI might be one of those moments where it seemed like a great idea in the zeitgeist, but in retrospect, they just didnt plan for it, because all they wanted to do was just make as much money as possible. The current crop of James Bond baddies at the top of the ladder are happy to see the world burn, because they won’t be around to give a shit when it all comes crashing down.
They’ll be around for it, but they’ll be insulated from it because they have more money than God.
All the money in the world cannot render someone immune to kinetic energy
it can, if it buys you a wall o flesh.
Better be paying those security forces top notch pay.
This is pervasive throughout any segments where AI is leveraged. I’ve heard it called a Diamond-shaped market. What used to be a pyramid of entry-level to mid tier to experienced staff no longer has entry level. So it’s just mid tier and experienced staff. There is no one in the pipeline to move up. What happens then? The genie is out of the bottle. The big AI shops could close up now and it would only slow the decline as local models are getting more performant. I’m impressed at what Qwen can do on a MacBook with 32 gig of ram. The question I have is, what’s the solution? I got nothing other than hoping the process of decline drags out longer than I think it will.
I’m very concerned about this.
But I’m even more concerned that the jobs that AI kills are jobs that no one gets trained to do, and that no one will know how to do them when the computers stop working.
LLM is destroying the ability to think in kids. Even if you want to switch back and retrain people Gen Slop isn’t ready for that.
Yeah but the job market will be hot for any Gen Alpha that even has half a working brain.
Oh yeah, the AI companies realized this from the start, maybe not that it would happen this quickly, but that it would happen.
This is why they are hyping AI up further now, as they want to squeeze the final drop of blood from the stone.
