I have been accused of being overly negative about AI, particularly large language models, and I have my share of issues with the technology. I do believe that we are pouring trillions of dollars into a bubble based on business models that can't possibly justify the investment and that the resulting crash will do great damage to the economy. I believe that the technology will never be capable of doing much of what has been promised and that much of what it is capable of (AI slop, disinformation, non-consensual sexualized images) is already doing a tremendous amount of social harm.
source & further reading
observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com — original article
Friday video/podcast recommendations -- Carl Brown edition
It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of business.
"I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody." --- James Carville (with the mandatory AI angle, of course)